If you want VIC to start and login directly to your virtual center environment, alter the shortcut and set the passthroughAuth option.
For example:
“C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Virtual Infrastructure Client\Launcher\VpxClient.exe” -passthroughAuth -s <VC server>
This tool shows you the actual perfomance the VM is using (while running itself within the VM) and also displays stats like how much Mhz the VM can access, etc.
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For more information visit the following website: http://www.run-virtual.com/?p=130
When installing workstation 7 experimental (e.x.p build-169612), all virtuals will run in debug mode. When starting virtal machine’s, the following message appears:
When looking at the debug options, you can not disable it. Offcourse this is necessary for VMware to troubleshoot their experimental build, but your virtuals will slow down a little bit.
To turn off the debugging mode you can do the following (stop vmware workstation):
If you start a virtual machine now, the message is gone and debugging is off.
A script to automatically create documentation for ESX hosts. The output is in HTML format and can be emailed to you directly.
Download the script (v3.0): [wpdm_file id=”7″]
For more information or new versions of the script look at the following site:
With vmware a virtual machine is easily made. This is why many people in a company ask for a lot of virtuals and forgot that it costs resources (money). vKernel has created a excel sheet which can be the start for calculating the costs of virtuals. This excel sheet can be adjusted for your own needs.
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In my previous post i have written about a script that gave an output of the datastore usage of your esx hosts. For this you need to run a powershell script against your virtual center server.
Before you can run this script you have a few requirement, this requirements are:
After installing the Microsoft PowerShell and VI Toolkit for Windows you have to place your scripts in the script directory (c:\program files\vmware\infrastructure\vitoolkitforwindows\scripts)
Check your rights, it should be unrestricted: “powershell get-executionpolicy”.
If your result is: “Restricted”, type in the following command: “powershell set-executionpolicy unrestricted”
Now you can run your scripts by starting the “VMware VI Toolkit (for windows)”, this option can be found under start > programs > vmware > vmware vi toolkit
Using Microsft PowerShell and the VI Toolkit for Windos you can do some nice stuff. When looking for a way to make reports for a customer of my i’ve stumbled upon a few scripts.
All you have to do is to install Microsoft Powershell, VI toolkit for windows and have Office on your machine. When running the powershell script [wpdm_file id=”4″] i get the following output:
Contents of datastore.ps1:
if ((Test-Path REGISTRY::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\OWC11.ChartSpace.11) -eq $False)
{
Write-Host "This script requires Office Web Components to run correctly, please install these from the following website: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7287252C-402E-4F72-97A5-E0FD290D4B76&displaylang=en"
exit
}
connect-VIServer yourserver
$Caption = "Datastore Usage %"
$categories = @()
$values = @()
$chart = new-object -com OWC11.ChartSpace.11
$chart.Clear()
$c = $chart.charts.Add(0)
$c.Type = 4
$c.HasTitle = "True"
$series = ([array] $chart.charts)[0].SeriesCollection.Add(0)
Get-datastore |Sort-Object FreeSpaceMB -Descending | foreach-object {
$capacitymb = $_.CapacityMB
$FreeSpaceMB = $_.FreeSpaceMB
$UsedSpace = $capacitymb - $freespacemb
$perc = $UsedSpace / $capacitymb * 100
$categories += $_.Name
$values += $perc * 1
}
$series.Caption = $Caption
$series.SetData(1, -1, $categories)
$series.SetData(2, -1, $values)
$filename = (resolve-path .).Path + "\Chart.jpg"
$chart.ExportPicture($filename, "jpg", 800, 500)
invoke-item $filename
To load test your vcpu’s you can use the following script:
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Or cut and paste the following text into a vbs file:
Dim goal
Dim before
Dim x
Dim y
Dim i
goal = 2181818
Do While True
before = Timer
For i = 0 to goal
x = 0.000001
y = sin(x)
y = y + 0.00001
Next
y = y + 0.01
Loop
To find out the compatibility of cpu id’s in your ESX environment.