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How to set up a VMware vSphere Lab in Virtual Machines, with DRS and HA

  I recently wrote a (reasonably!) lengthy article on how to set up your own VMware vSphere lab or test environment consisting entirely of Virtual Machines, running off of one piece of host hardware....

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Review: PHD Virtual Backup & Replication 5.4

  Introduction   PHD Virtual Backup & Replication is as the name would suggest, a complete, all-in-one backup and replication package. It is available in both VMware and Citrix XenServer flavours....

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Get Virtual Machine Inventory from a Hyper-V Failover Cluster using PowerShell

A colleague was asking around for a PowerShell script that would fetch some inventory data for VMs on a Hyper-V cluster the other day. Not knowing too much about Hyper-V and having only ever briefly...

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PowerCLI – script to deploy multiple random VMs

There are probably tons of scripts out there to deploy VMs in a vSphere environment, but I was in the mood for scripting this evening and decided to create my own PowerCLI script to automatically...

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VM provisioning from e-mail using Python and the VMware Perl SDK

This is a bit of a fun project that I did as a part of my presentation of the vPi project. It doesn’t necessarily achieve anything useful (at least not on the surface), but it does demonstrate some...

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Three PowerCLI scripts for information gathering – VMs, Hosts, etc

  I was on a vSphere upgrade review engagement recently, and part of this involved checking hardware and existing vSphere VI was compatible with the targeted upgrade. To help myself along, I created a...

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Solving VMware Fusion 6 and Windows 7 VM performance issues

I have been struggling along with various VM performance issues over the last couple of months using VMware Fusion 5.x, as well as the latest 6.0.3. I just didn’t get the time to dedicate to find a fix...

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Fix for VM console error – unable to connect to the mks the operation is not...

Bit of a strange one this – I have not dug deeper to find the root cause, but here is a quick fix for anyone with the issue.   I found we could not open VM console sessions in a vCenter 5.5 environment...

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Changing DNS on Azure IaaS VM’s NIC forces RDP / network disconnect

I  just noticed this happen to a VM I was connected to this evening. All I did was change the primary DNS from automatically assigned to manual, gave it a DNS server IP, and provided a backup secondary...

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