In vCenter we have lot's of DRS functionalities. I won't go into all of them here, you'll probably know about most of them already. This blog post will talk about the VM/Host affinity functionality, i.e. rules to keep VMs running one or more specific host(s). There is multiple use-cases for this. You might want to keep …

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This is Part 8 and last part (I think...) of my series on vSphere Performance data. Part 1 discusses the project, Part 2 is about exploring how to retrieve data, Part 3 is about using Get-Stat for the retrieval. Part 4 talked about the database used to store the retrieved data, InfluxDB. Part 5 showed how data is …

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This is Part 7 of my series on vSphere Performance data. Part 1 discusses the project, Part 2 is about exploring how to retrieve data, Part 3 is about using Get-Stat for the retrieval. Part 4 talked about the database used to store the retrieved data, InfluxDB. Part 5 showed how data is written to the database. Part 6 …

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This is Part 6 of my series on vSphere Performance data. Part 1 discusses the project, Part 2 is about exploring how to retrieve data, Part 3 is about using Get-Stat for the retrieval. Part 4 talked about the database used to store the retrieved data, InfluxDB. Part 5 showed how data is written to the database. This …

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This is Part 5 of my series on vSphere Performance data. Part 1 discusses the project, Part 2 is about exploring how to retrieve data, Part 3 is about using Get-Stat for the retrieval. Part 4 talked about the database used to store the retrieved data, InfluxDB. This one will do some actual work and will retrieve data …

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We are using Storage Policies on all VMs in our environment and rely on those to give the VM's the correct storage. Storage Policy based management is a key area for VMware going forward it seems, especially with things like vSAN and VVOL. In addition to matching a VM and it's storage we are using the policies to set …

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This is Part 4 of my series on vSphere Performance data. Part 1 discusses the project, Part 2 is about exploring how to retrieve data, Part 3 is about using Get-Stat for the retrieval. This post will be about the database used to store the retrieved data, InfluxDB. The last post left of with the beginning of a script …

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This is the Part 3 in my series on vSphere performance data. Part 1 discussed the project, Part 2 was about checking the methods of retrieving data and ended with me realizing I would use Get-Stat against all (4000) VMs to retrieve data. Part 2 was posted over a month ago as I have been busy preparing for the VCP 6.5 …

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I'm using the Scheduled Tasks functionality in Windows Server quite extensively. I have tasks for importing stuff to a database with Powershell scripts, running some cleanup scripts etc Almost all of my scripts run on different intervals during the day. Some maybe just once a day and some might run every x minutes. …

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In my last post about upgrading vCenter to 6.5 I've outlined the steps I needed to do for the migration. Both pre-migration, the actual migration and some post-migration steps. Today we were about to upgrade/migrate one of our oldest and biggest vCenters which presented some additional steps to consider for the …

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