Nutanix Era capacity thresholds. With a PowerShell script to check them!
My second post about Nutanix Era doesn’t constitute “a series” yet, but we can be off for a good start! Era is the tool to go...
April 20, 2021
Author: Sebastian Baryło
Successfully jumping to conclusions since 2001.
Sample script to gather database inventory report from Nutanix Era.
Nutanix Era (or simply “Era”) is a database management tool, designed to help customers, who run their databases on top of Nutanix Clusters, get the best...
March 23, 2021
Asynchronous tasks in PowerCLI or “be careful what you task for”.
This post is about one of the most challenging PowerCLI scripts I was asked to write so far. Unfortunately I will not present the script itself,...
July 16, 2018
Rather simple way to include vRealize Operations Manager sizing recommendations in your good ol’ inventory report.
Everybody has one. Good ol’ “VM inventory report” The moment your infrastructure outgrows kindergarten size of ~50 VMs, you either start exporting list of VMs from...
June 4, 2018
My VDCD550 (almost) exam experience.
So two weeks ago today, on December 22nd, 2014 I had my VCAP5-DCD exam scheduled (the 5.5 version). I was honestly hoping to share with you...
January 5, 2015
We got All Paths Down, we got All Paths Down…
The title of this post is obviously inspired by (rather epic) movie of “Black Hawk Down”. Now that you know it’s gonna be some serious business, here...
December 8, 2014
Guest OS disk usage script revisited.
I was recently asked to re-write my good ol’ script that retrieves disk usage from virtual machines and formats this information into nice’n’tidy CSV report. My “customer”...
December 1, 2014
When HA kicks (in) and you’re not quite ready…
vSphere HA functionality is definitely one of the top contributors to success of VMware virtualization. But have you ever been in a situation, when one of...
November 24, 2014
My VCAP5-DCA (VDCA550) exam experience.
As I boasted off in one of my previous posts already, I recently (well – two months ago, on September 1st, 2014) passed the VDCA550 exam. In...
November 10, 2014
Yet another PowerCLI script for VM snapshot reporting.
OK, after reading the title of this post you might have thought something like: “Well, this guy must have been born yesterday” or “What now? Are...
October 13, 2014
