Tag: VMware

VMware Update Manager – Part Six: PowerCLI and Update Manager Utility

February 5, 2015

In order to modify or automate VMware Update Manager (VUM) behaviour the VMware vSphere Update Manager PowerCLI (VUM PowerCLI) and the VMware Update Manager Utility (VUM Utility) tools can be used. VUM PowerCLI provides a set of cmdlets for performing VUM administration takes, such as creating basleines, attaching baselines, scanning virtual machines, staging patches, remediating … More VMware Update Manager – Part Six: PowerCLI and Update Manager Utility

VMware Update Manager – Part Three: Creating and Modifying Baseline Groups

February 5, 2015

By default, two dynamic baseline are available – Critical and Non-Critical. The Critical baseline will contain all patches where the severity is ‘Critical’, whilst the Non-Critical baseline will contain all other patches.  In order to create a new baseline from the vSphere Web Client browse to Home > Solutions and Applications > Update Manager > … More VMware Update Manager – Part Three: Creating and Modifying Baseline Groups

VMware Update Manager – Part Two: Configuring VMware Update Manager (VUM)

February 5, 2015

In order to modify the Download Settings of the VMware Update Manager (VUM) from the vSphere Client browse to Home > Solutions and Applications > Update Manager > Download Settings. If you have a proxy server installed on your local area network to act as an intermediary for requests from the VUM component, the download … More VMware Update Manager – Part Two: Configuring VMware Update Manager (VUM)

Utilising vSphere Performance Monitoring Tools – Part Three: net-dvs

January 18, 2015

In a scenario where the vCenter Server System is not available and you require to perform network troubleshooting on a vSphere distributed switch (dvSwitch) configuration on a ESXi host system the net-dvs command from the ESXi shell or the vSphere Command Line interface can be useful. The configuration of dvSwitches is managed by the vCenter … More Utilising vSphere Performance Monitoring Tools – Part Three: net-dvs

Utilising vSphere Performance Monitoring Tools – Part Two: vscsiStats

January 18, 2015

The vscsiStats command allows for the troubleshooting of performance issues for virtual machine storage. It can collect data at the virtual SCSI device level and report this performance data as a histogram by collecting information on each I/O operation and reports on I/O metrics such as length, seek distance, number of outstanding I/O, I/O latency … More Utilising vSphere Performance Monitoring Tools – Part Two: vscsiStats