Nutanix Era capacity thresholds. With a PowerShell script to check them!
My second post about Nutanix Era doesn’t constitute “a series” yet, but we can be off for a good start! Era is the tool to go with, for anyone, who wants to run databases...
Author: Sebastian Baryło
Successfully jumping to conclusions since 2001.
Sample script to gather database inventory report from Nutanix Era.
Nutanix Era (or simply “Era”) is a database management tool, designed to help customers, who run their databases on top of Nutanix Clusters, get the best of hyperconverged infrastructure during the whole database lifecycle.If...
Asynchronous tasks in PowerCLI or “be careful what you task for”.
This post is about one of the most challenging PowerCLI scripts I was asked to write so far. Unfortunately I will not present the script itself, simply because it is way too long and...
Rather simple way to include vRealize Operations Manager sizing recommendations in your good ol’ inventory report.
Everybody has one. Good ol’ “VM inventory report” The moment your infrastructure outgrows kindergarten size of ~50 VMs, you either start exporting list of VMs from Web/vSphere Client on regular basis, or you search...
My VDCD550 (almost) exam experience.
So two weeks ago today, on December 22nd, 2014 I had my VCAP5-DCD exam scheduled (the 5.5 version). I was honestly hoping to share with you some of my positive experience about it, only…...
We got All Paths Down, we got All Paths Down…
The title of this post is obviously inspired by (rather epic) movie of “Black Hawk Down”. Now that you know it’s gonna be some serious business, here comes a Disclaimer: Procedure described below is derived from author’s...
Guest OS disk usage script revisited.
I was recently asked to re-write my good ol’ script that retrieves disk usage from virtual machines and formats this information into nice’n’tidy CSV report. My “customer” wanted to have some more data included in...
When HA kicks (in) and you’re not quite ready…
vSphere HA functionality is definitely one of the top contributors to success of VMware virtualization. But have you ever been in a situation, when one of your vSphere hosts failed (say, in the night)...
My VCAP5-DCA (VDCA550) exam experience.
As I boasted off in one of my previous posts already, I recently (well – two months ago, on September 1st, 2014) passed the VDCA550 exam. In this post I would like to share my...
Yet another PowerCLI script for VM snapshot reporting.
OK, after reading the title of this post you might have thought something like: “Well, this guy must have been born yesterday” or “What now? Are we really reinventing the wheel here?”. And yeah,...
