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VI toolkit extensions - get-tkesnapshotextended problem

jasonah — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:59:38 GMT

I'm having a problem with the extension get-tkesnapshotextended to function properly. If I do something like this"

get-vm vmname | get-tkesnapshotextended | select name, vm, sizemb

It works great. However if I just use

get-vm | get-tkesnapshotextended | select name, vm, sizemb

I get no results back. I am using Powershell 2 CTP3 and the latest version of the tookit extensions.

Thanks,

Jason

Re: PLEASE comment: Abnormally increased RAM usage of hostd in ESX 3.5 U3 (memory leak?)

jasonah — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:48:48 GMT

I've seen this problem in U3 and in previous releases. The first time I had this problem was due to using the EMC Control Center software. It was constantly connecting to all of our ESX systems even though most of our systems weren't set for it. We would get continual failed logins in the hostd.log. It seems that each failure would eat a little more memory and never get released until hostd crashed and restarted. The second time I saw this was because a couple of vms were stuck in a state of reconfiguring themselves over and over.

-jason

Re: Vmkernel parameters - compare

jasonah — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:19:17 GMT

I think that one of the advanced settings might have been modified via the VIC and just want to compare across esx hosts.

-jason

Vmkernel parameters - compare

jasonah — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:07:35 GMT

Is there an easy way to compare the vmkernel parameters between hosts? I know a lot of these settings are stored in /proc/vmware. I have two hosts that I want to compare the settings and don't see an easy way to do this.

Thanks,

-jason

Re: How to get CDP values from Cisco Switch?

jasonah — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:00:18 GMT

I figured it out. I changed the write-host line to write-output and then it showed me the cdp info.

Thanks,

Jason

Re: How to get CDP values from Cisco Switch?

jasonah — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:11:07 GMT

I tried that script. Instead of the cdp info I am getting this... VMware.Vim.PhysicalNicCdpInfo on all of my nics that are cdp enabled. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Jason

Re: Major slowness with get-vm using 1.0 build

jasonah — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:45:21 GMT

Count Name

262 Flexible

128 Vmxnet

30 e1000

1 EnhancedVmxnet

get-vm on a single vm takes about 4 minutes regardless of what type of adapter it has configured.

-Jason

Setting customfields via import-csv

jasonah — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:36:01 GMT

I'm trying to set customfields on some vms. I have a csv file with about 9 rows right now and I wrote the following code:

foreach ($f in (import-csv "vmtest2.csv")) { get-vm $f.Name | set-customfield -name CreationDate -value $f.CreationDate }

It appears to work but it is very, very slow. I'm concerned about how long it might take when I add in 400+vms with multiple customfields that I want to set. Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks,

Jason

Re: Live Online courses

jasonah — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:47:25 GMT

What about training materials? Do you get the same materials if you attended a class in person?

Thanks,

Jason

Live Online courses

jasonah — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:45:44 GMT

I was wondering if anyone could provide me with details on how the online courses work. I'm interested in trying them since they don't seem to offer the Deploy & Analyze course in the Seattle area.

Thanks,

Jason