How to Recovery VMs on a Defective Host?

How to recover from a host failure when DRS didn’t help because it wasn’t enabled, that is a good question. Normally HA will kick in and move the workload from one host to another upon failure. This morning, our HA agent must have slept in. SMH. When I got into the office virtually this morning, I found that I had a host failure, and 57 VMs went down with the ship thinking they were the captains.… Continue reading

New PowerCLI Release: PowerCLI 6.5 R1

PowerCLI 6.5 R1

VMware just release a new version of PowerCLI just today.  Like every new release, they have packed with one with a ton of new features, and updates to the existing cmdlets to help with automation and daily operations.

Updated Cmdlets

Move-VM – This cmdlet has been updated to support the ability to vMotion machines between vCenters.  … Continue reading