There are a number of operations management tools available which can allow you to discover virtual machines which can be categorised as idle, where they continue to run with a low utilisation profile and can be part of the overall VM sprawl in your environment. I was recently investigating how to retrieve Idle VMs based … More PowerCLI: Discover Idle VMs
I recently talked about using termination dates on VMs in order to control VM sprawl in the datacenter with the help of using virtual machine type annotations (http://wp.me/p15Mdc-n1). Now that we have identified the termination date and notified the user who requested the VM that it is approaching the end of its lifetime, how do … More Using Annotations to Terminate VMs based on Date (Part 2)
When users request a number of VMs which are not going to persistent in your datacenter this can lead to a large VM sprawl if not managed correctly. One method to do this would be to create a number of virtual machine type annotations based on the creation of the VM to include tags to filter … More Using Annotations to Terminate VMs based on Date (Part 1)
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