How to find the NUMA locality of a VM with Powershell
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Datacenter Migration with VEEAM Backup & Replication and PowerShell
For new customers we often need to migrate their virtual machines from their datacenter into our datacenter. We use VEEAM Backup & Replication for this because it offers us the ability to pre-sync the VMs a few days before the migration and on the day of the migration it self, the last data sync is […]
[Powershell] vCPU to Physical Core for XenApp VM
For our Citrix XenApp environment that runs on ESXi, we tend to keep a 1:1 ratio when it comes to physical cores and vCPUs. In other words, an ESXi host with 12 cores, will only be running 6 XenApp VMs with 2 cores or 3 XenApp VMs with 4 cores or any other combination, just […]
AutoDeploy Failed to convert ItemList
When working with VMware vSphere AutoDeploy and creating or editing rules I sometimes get the following error when running a Get-DeployRule: “Failed to convert ItemList to VI Object: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object” (See screenshot). Often I also have one or more rules not working correctly then. Turns out […]
VMware vSphere Health Check
At the Dutch VMUG event 2011 I gave a presentation on how to check your VMware environment to make sure it is healthy. When creating the presentation I had a lot of doubts because I was afraid everyone would think these points were very obvious. But on the other hand, when visiting customers and doing […]