ESXi 5.5 Express Patch 8 and ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 3 are Released
There have been some serious problems with the latest updates from VMware. ESXi 5.5 Update 3 there was a problem with deletion of snapshots: KB2133118 ESXi 6.0 Update 1 and earlier has a problem with network disconnection: KB2124669 This problems are solved with this new releases. ESXi 5.5 Update 3a (EP8) release notes can be found here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/55/vsphere-esxi-55u3-release-notes.html ESXi 5.5…
vRealize Orchestrator, VMs that Need Consolidation
I was creating a workflow that could find VM’s that need consolidation and the consolidate them. I did not find any actions or workflow for this so i created one, with this script: This is just a sample workflow, you can modify for your own usage, test before using it. Download: Finds-VM-that-Needs-Consolidation-and-Consolidate-them.zip
Cancel Remove Snapshot Task
* Disclamer: I'm not sure this is supported by VMware, and requires a deep knowledge of how VMware snapshots works, and this can vary in different versions. I had a customer contacting me that they had a problem. They had shutdown a Virtual Machine because it had a huge snapshot ~1.7 TB, and afterwards they had…