Showing posts with label VMware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VMware. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 August 2011

Checks hosts with NTP service stopped

#Description: This function checks hosts with NTP service stopped
#Purpose: NTP required to keep correct time for VMs and hosts
#Designed to be added as function into $profile for quick-admin tasks, run from commandline

Checks VMs with thin-provisioned disks

#Description: This function checks VMs with thin provisioned disks
#Purpose: Thin provisioned disks might over-subscribe DS usage, need to be monitored
#Designed to be added as function into $profile for quick-admin tasks, run from commandline

Checks VMs for RDMs (raw device mappings)

#Description: This function checks VMs for Raw device mappings
#Purpose: Raw device mappings limit the vmotion functionality

#Designed to be added as function into $profile for quick-admin tasks, run from commandline

Checks datastores for orphaned VMDK files

#Description: This function checks datastores for orphaned VMDK files
#Purpose: Discovering wasted storage on datastores
#Designed to be added as function into $profile for quick-admin tasks, run from commandline

Checks for VMs with out-of-date VMware tools

#Description: This function checks for VMs with out-of-date VMware tools
#Purpose: Discovering VMs that require VMTools updated
#Designed to be added as function into $profile for quick-admin tasks, run from commandline

Checks for VMs with mounted CDroms

#Description: This powershell function checks for VMs with mounted CDroms
#Purpose: If CDroms are mounted on VM, you can't VMotion the machine
#Designed to be added as function into $profile for quick-admin tasks, run from commandline

Checks for VMs with mounted floppy drives

#Description: This powershell function checks for VMs attached floppy drives
#Purpose: If floppy drives are mounted on VM, you can't VMotion the machine
#Designed to be added as function into $profile for quick-admin tasks, run from commandline

Checks for VMs with set memory limit

#Description: This powershell function checks for VMs with resource memory limit set
#Purpose: Memory limit can cause balooning and generally should not be set for the VM
#Designed to be added as function into $profile for quick-admin tasks, run from commandline