Use PowerCLI to consolidate snapshots in vSphere 5

September 26, 2012 7 Comments

PowerCLI logoIn vSphere 5 a virtual machine can have a “Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed” Configuration Issue warning in the Summary tab. How can you use PowerCLI to see which virtual machines have this warning? And how can you automate the consolidation of the virtual machine’s disks? Read more of this post

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Use Performance Monitor to get VM performance statistics

June 19, 2012 5 Comments

PowerShell logoIn PowerCLI you can use the Get-Stat cmdlet to get performance statistics. But for Microsoft Windows virtual machines with the VMware Tools installed there is another way to get the statistics. Even without using PowerCLI. Read more of this post

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