Customer of mine never heard about potential time sync problems in a virtual environment and when checking a number of VMs, I learned that they clearly had no default configuration for TimeSync in the VMware Tools. I decided to write a Powershell script that will list the VMware Tools setting for time sync and for […]
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Enabling VMware View PCoIP with dynamic IP address
Update: I have checked the script to work with VMware View 4.6, VMware View 5.0, VMware View 5.1 and VMware View Horizon 5.2. There was an update needed for the URL used to get the external IP address. Now using http://ifconfig.me/ip as URL. In Horizon View 5.2 there is a new URL, called the Blast […]
Cheap disaster recovery
At the Dutch VMUG, together with my colleague Jos Vanaubel, I presented about how to do cheap disaster recovery using only PowerShell. At the London VMUG I held the same presentation again and promised to upload the scripts to my blog. Well, here it is in PDF format:
DutchVMUG Live blog: Eric Sloof Managing vSphere with the virtualization EcoShell
Next on stage, Eric Sloof. Virtualization EcoShell contains a lot of pre defined filters to show you for example age of snapshots, VMs that are ballooning, etc. EcoShell is free, you can easily add your own powerpacks and create your own scripts to manage your virtual infrastructure in the way best suited for you. The […]
Product review: Tripwire vWire
Last week I received an e-mail from Karen from Tripwire asking me if I was interested in writing a review about their latest release of vWire. When I got my hands on their first very early beta a few months ago, I had trouble understanding the product which made me a bit reluctant on playing […]