After few weeks since last release of vSphere 5.1 U1, VMware released vSphere 5.1 U1a which fix vCenter SSO authentication issue. In vSphere 5.1 U1 release users found a bug which prevent to login to vCenter server domain user when SSO was attached to more than one Active Directory domains. See this link for more details http://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2013/04/alert-login-issue-after-updating-to-vcenter-5-1-update-1.html This release of VMware...

Quick script to export or import virtual machine annotations to/from CSV format. Very handy in situation when virtual machine was unregistered and registered back in vCenter inventory. registering VM back won’t restore virtual machine annotations. Export Get-VM | ForEach-Object { $VM = $_ $VM | Get-Annotation |` ForEach-Object { $Report = "" | Select-Object VM,Name,Value $Report.VM = $VM.Name $Report.Name = $_.Name $Report.Value =...

Finally Veeam announced two new features included in new Veeam Backup and Replication V7 which will is planned to released in July 2013. vCloud Director Using the vCD API, Veeam will display the vCD infrastructure directly in Veeam Backup & Replication™, backup all vApp metadata and attributes, restore vApps and VMs directly to vCD, and support restore of fast-provisioned VMs. vSphere Web Client Monitor backups and backup...

For a past day I tried to set up a host profiles to standardize ESXi deployment and I came across to problems to solve: When host profiles was applied, ESXi host lost completely it’s networking configuration (IP, management interfaces). I couldn’t restore networking from DCUI (error message: Management network interface cannot be found), the only way to restore functionality of DCUI was reset to default settings from DCUI. When...

I had to create a script to automate vulnerability reporting. Thanks to my colleague Grzegorz from http://psvmware.wordpress.com who helped me a lot with a script. Script generates report in CSV format and send email out with attachment. Requirements: Base PowerCLI installed VUM PowerCLI snap-in installed NOTE – VUM PowerCLI snap-in has to have the same build version as vCenter server. Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core...