vCenter

PowerCLI - Quick Stats Not Up To Date Error Recently rebooted one of my vCenters and came across an error on my ESXi hosts stating “Quick stats on *vmhost* is not up-to-date”. A couple seconds worth of googling brought me to VMware KB2061008 which helped to resolve the issue. Nov 9, 2015 - 1 min read
PowerCLI - View - Pool Health Check Report I’ve been given the chance to work with View a little more here recently and focus in on some of the gaps that are missing, specifically around reporting and alerting. vC Ops and the View adapter are in use, however the alerts leave much to be desired. Dec 29, 2014 - 2 min read
PowerCLI - One-Liner - Check All VMHosts Time It’s everyone’s favorite time of year, daylight savings time. If your NTP solution is solid, there’s no worries and you’ve never had to think twice about it. If you’re like everyone else, you at least want to run a couple scripts to verify and validate everything is looking good. Oct 28, 2013 - 2 min read
Generating RSA Key & CSR for use with VMware Solutions... Ever received a Security Warning while logging into either you ESX/i host and/or vCenter? That’s due to the SSL certificate being untrusted with your machine. You can always click the “Ignore” button or check the “Install this certificate…” box and then “Ignore” and move on, however you can improve the security by replacing the certificates with certificates signed by a commercial certificate authority (CA). Nov 29, 2011 - 2 min read