The last months we have had several issues with ESXi hosts going in a "Not responding" status. The VMs are still active and online in this scenario, but the ESXi cannot be managed. This also affets backup as it won't be able to reach the VMs through the APIs. Previously we have normally just restarted the management …

In a previous post I've talked about issues in the StoragePolicy and Tag cmdlets in PowerCLI. I found a workaround by ignoring certificate warnings and setting my date format to en-US. Today I tried to replicate some Storage Policies from one vCenter to another and I found that I got new errors... I can export the …

This weekend our primary OneView appliance crashed. This particular OneView appliance handles 10 blade chassis and over 120 blade servers As OneView handles only the management side of the hardware nothing in production was affected by this crash. TLDR; There is a bug in version 3.10.04 which doesn't delete expired …

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 …

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. …