http://www.warmetal.nl/ 2012-02-06T10:00:11+01:00 http://www.warmetal.nl/ http://www.warmetal.nl/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-01-31T15:11:57+01:00 Sjoerd Hooft http://www.warmetal.nl/powerclinotes This is an overview page with small PowerCLI scripts and or commands. If only I knew then what I know now! When working on Script: PowerCLI: Create CSV with VMInfo I spent some serious time on finding what properties and values are available on certain objects. Today I finally figured it out, simply use “Select *”: [vSphere PowerCLI] C:\> Get-NetworkAdapter -vm testvm01 | select * MacAddress : 00:50:56:89:2e:18 WakeOnLanEnabled : True NetworkName : SFT0-VLAN2 Type : Fle… text/html 2012-01-20T17:45:46+01:00 Sjoerd Hooft http://www.warmetal.nl/lunaligning For information about why you should keep LUNs aligned with your vmdks I'd like to refer to this article from yellow-bricks.com. It explains why alignment is important, but I'll tell you it comes down to performance. When the LUNs, vmdk and Guest OS blocks are not aligned the array will request more blocks than the VMs are actually asking for. Please note the following remarks: text/html 2012-01-20T13:53:34+01:00 Sjoerd Hooft http://www.warmetal.nl/apachereverseproxy This is an overall page for an Apache reverse proxy, including installation, configuration, security and cache. The reverse proxy in my case is a virtual. It will have three NICs, one for the outside, one for the inside and one in the management VLAN. During initial installation, we only use one NIC, the one on the outside. Later on we'll add the other NICs. * VM NAME: SLES11-REVERSEPROXY * CPU: 1 * MEM: 1024 MB * DSK: 8 GB * NIC: VMXNET3 * Extern IP: 10.10.10.20 * VLAN: 10