A Random Walk Through Idea Space: vmwarePosts tagged with vmwarehttp://www.thattommyhall.com2009-09-28T17:17:27+01:00thattommyhallGetting VMware Certified Professional (VCP) on vSphere 4http://www.thattommyhall.com/2009/09/28/getting-vmware-certified-professional-vcp-on-vsphere-4/2009-09-28T17:17:27+01:002016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00thattommyhallOn Saturday I took and passed the VCP410 exam to get VCP4.
It was not really that hard, though I have been reading about vSphere since before it shipped, follow loads of blogs on VMware, installed it as soon as it came into beta and migrated my companiesPowershell Reporting Trickhttp://www.thattommyhall.com/2010/10/04/powershell-reporting-trick/2010-10-04T11:51:20+01:002016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00thattommyhallHere is a little trick I keep re-using to output csv files of data from vCenter.
[powershell]$reportArray = @()
foreach($cluster in get-cluster){
foreach($vm in get-vm -Location $cluster){
foreach($ds in get-DataStore -VM $vm.name){Ruby On Windows - Forking other processes http://www.thattommyhall.com/2011/02/20/ruby-on-windows-running-other-executables/2011-02-20T23:08:11+00:002016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00thattommyhallWhile moving our VM deployment site written in Sinatra to a Windows
machine with the VMware PowerCLI toolkit installed the only snag was
where we forked a process to do the preparation of the machines. Both
Kernel.fork and Process.detach seemed to haveLoad Based Nic Teaming vs Link Aggregation http://www.thattommyhall.com/2010/12/21/load-based-nic-teaming-vs-link-aggregation/2010-12-21T22:26:29+00:002016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00thattommyhallI remembered seeing Simon Long’s comment on twitter a few weeks ago and it was rattling around in the back of my mind.
Will #VMware Load-Based Teaming remove the need for #Cisco EtherChannel? Discuss….
I long ago investigated NIC Teaming algorithmsHyper9 Saves The Dayhttp://www.thattommyhall.com/2010/12/20/hyper9-saves-the-day/2010-12-20T14:43:16+00:002016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00thattommyhallWe recently bought the Hyper9 capacity planning, reporting and monitoring solution for our VMware infrastructure and I quite soon made use of it to troubleshoot some problems reported to us like backups taking longer and databases being slower than normalRunning Any Executable As A Windows Service (Ruby / Sinatra)http://www.thattommyhall.com/2011/02/14/srvany-sinatra-ruby-windows-service/2011-02-14T13:06:52+00:002016-06-05T02:27:23+01:00thattommyhallWhile migrating an automated VM deployment page using a combination of Sinatra on Linux and Bash scripts using the Perl toolkit with a simpler script using the VMWare PowerCLI that I love so much I needed to create a windows service from the Sinatra App