In vSphere 6.5 there new feature is enabled  ,come back of VMFS storage space reclamation. This feature was enabled in a manual way for VMFS5 datastores and was able to be triggered when you free storage space inside a datastore when deleting or migrating a VM or consolidate a snapshot. At a Guest OS level, storage space is […]

• vSphere 6.5

This post is relate to virtual machine backup failing on EMC network environment . Error  NVP: Error disabling storage migration, retrying, error: VDDK Error: 20005: The operation has been disabled by the guest operating system. Few backups fail with error ‘operation has been disabled by the guest operating system’: Cause vProxy attempts to disable VM […]

• EMC Networker

Check NTP Services status  Get-VMHost | Get-VmHostService | Where-Object {$_.key -eq “ntpd”}                 Check Firewall exception configuration  Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostFirewallException | where {$_.Name -eq “NTP client”}               Enable the FirewallException to all ESXi Hosts Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostFirewallException | where {$_.Name -eq “NTP […]

• PowerCLI

List all virtual machines where CBT enabled  Get-VM| Where-Object{$_.ExtensionData.Config.ChangeTrackingEnabled -eq $true} Check specific virtual machines where CBT enabled  Get-VM  “TEST-VM-01” | Where-Object{$_.ExtensionData.Config.ChangeTrackingEnabled -eq $true} List all virtuals machine where CBT disabled Get-VM| Where-Object{$_.ExtensionData.Config.ChangeTrackingEnabled -eq $false} Check specific virtual machines where CBT disabled Get-VM  “TEST-VM-01” | Where-Object{$_.ExtensionData.Config.ChangeTrackingEnabled -eq $false} Note : In GUI mode we cannot […]

• PowerCLI

Command to list the  properties of snapshot  using  power cli get-vm | get-snapshot | format-list Description Created Quiesced PowerState VM VMId Parent ParentSnapshotId ParentSnapshot Children SizeMB IsCurrent IsReplaySupported ExtensionData Id Name Uid Generate complete snapshot inventory with few details        get-vm | Get-Snapshot Export complete snapshot inventory to csv file get-vm | get-snapshot […]

• PowerCLI

Get connected disk details including name , Multipathing , LunType  of all ESXI HOSTS in vCenter Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk User below command to export all the details to CSV Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk |export-csv C:\diskinfo.csv Get connected disk details including name , Multipathing , LunType  for Specific ESXI HOST Get-VMHost  “ESXI-TEST.LOCAL.COM” | Get-ScsiLun […]

• PowerCLI

This post contains a series of Configuration Steps as mentioned below . • Find the VSA and FOM from CMC Console • Create New Management Group with FOM • Create and Configure Cluster • NTP and E-mail Notification Configuration • Configure the Shared Volume 1. Open HPE StoreVirtual Centralized Management Console

• HPE