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Hopefully this will help someone as I have been looking around for a while and just decided to tackle it myself. Took some snippets from the PowerPack to put this together.  I am no coder by any ... See more...
Hopefully this will help someone as I have been looking around for a while and just decided to tackle it myself. Took some snippets from the PowerPack to put this together.  I am no coder by any means so suggestions are welcomed however it has been working great for us. It generates an email if the amount of space used on a VM's partition is over 89%.  There are 3 files needed:  email-template.txt ,  global-volume-ignore.txt , and systems-to-ignore.txt. email-template.txt - Is the body of the email, this is a code sample to put in:  Disk utilization is " + ("{0:P0}" -f $percentfree) + "  on " + $VM.name + " partion is " + $Disk.DiskPath + " and space free is " + ($freespace / 1000) + " GB. global-volume-ignore.txt - Helpful to exlude certain volumes (/boot, etc) systems-to-ignore.txt - Put VM names in here you want to exclude I run it as scheduled task on a daily basis.
Check out this document:  http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA3-3801ENW.pdf   - Configuration best practices for deploying VMware vSphere 4.1 on the HP P2000 Also, I wouldn't worry too... See more...
Check out this document:  http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA3-3801ENW.pdf   - Configuration best practices for deploying VMware vSphere 4.1 on the HP P2000 Also, I wouldn't worry too much about block size we choose 8 MB by default for all our DS's after much research.
Firewall issue?
That would probably be more of a question for EMC however when you setup the Array Manager for RP you point it to the RPA's not the array like MV. I would assume you can chose what technology to... See more...
That would probably be more of a question for EMC however when you setup the Array Manager for RP you point it to the RPA's not the array like MV. I would assume you can chose what technology to use for replication on a LUN basis?
We are going through this exact scenario. From my discussions with our SE you can have whatever SRA's you want installed on the SRM box. You could mix Recoverpoint, MV, Netapp, etc. After insta... See more...
We are going through this exact scenario. From my discussions with our SE you can have whatever SRA's you want installed on the SRM box. You could mix Recoverpoint, MV, Netapp, etc. After installing the RP SRA you setup another Array Manager with your RecoverPoint information.
That will work fine, just connect to one of the newly installed ESXi 4.1 hosts manually and add the Vcenter VM to the inventory. Do a fresh install don't even bother upgrading with the amount of... See more...
That will work fine, just connect to one of the newly installed ESXi 4.1 hosts manually and add the Vcenter VM to the inventory. Do a fresh install don't even bother upgrading with the amount of hosts you have. Read through this for any questions, great resource:
You could also setup VMware Workstation and run ESXi in it with 2 hosts to your shared storage. The only issue with that is no 64bit guests therefore no support for 4.1 Vcenter.
Why won't ESXi do for your environment? VMware has already made it clear no more ESX. I would really stress to move towards i. Read through this: answers almost all your questions.
That is helpful but I think it is more than I want to do at this point.. code anyway. Basically when an alarm is tripped (in this case VM CPU usage) I want the action to be a ps script that simp... See more...
That is helpful but I think it is more than I want to do at this point.. code anyway. Basically when an alarm is tripped (in this case VM CPU usage) I want the action to be a ps script that simply just puts the VM name in the subject as well as the name of the alarm.
I am trying to create a ps script that will fire after a certain Alarm is triggered in Vcenter. I want the script to include in the subject of the email the name of the guest as well as the alar... See more...
I am trying to create a ps script that will fire after a certain Alarm is triggered in Vcenter. I want the script to include in the subject of the email the name of the guest as well as the alarm name. I am not a programmer by any means but have found the variable list for the alarms ( ) I started here but like I said I am not a programmer by any means: $emailFrom = "" $emailTo = "" $subject = VMWARE_ALARM_EVENT_VM, VMWARE_ALARM_NAME $body = $smtpServer = "" $smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer) $smtp.Send($emailFrom, $emailTo, $subject, $body) Any one ever done this or can provide me with some guidance? I am perplexed why VMware does not allow you through Vsphere Client to edit the default email of an alarm.