vcenter Archives - SpottedHyena

Bulk configure vCenter Alarms with PowerCLI

Published by marksie1988 on January 17, 2016

I was recently asked if it was possible to update vCenter alarms in bulk with email details. So i set about writing the below script, basically this script will go through looking for any alarms that match the name you specify and set the email as required.

Add vCenter Logs to Syslog Server (GrayLog2)

Published by marksie1988 on July 6, 2015

In this article I will be showing you how to add vCenter logs to a syslog server, I currently use GrayLog2 as its a great free syslog server and does everything that I require.

vCenter 6.0 VCSA Deployment

Published by marksie1988 on March 23, 2015

This article covers the deployment on the vCenter 6.0 VCSA, you will see that this process is radically different from previous processes.

vCloud Director and vCenter Proxy Service Failure

Published by marksie1988 on July 11, 2014

Over the past couple of weeks I have spent some time working with VMware vCloud Director 5.1. I will also be producing multiple other guides for vCloud Director as I use it more over the coming months.

One issue that we have hit a few times was the vCD cell stopped working properly (Multi-cell environment). I could log into the vCD provider and organization portals but the deployment of vApps would run for an abnormally long time and then fail after 20 minutes.

How to view which Virtual Machines have Snapshots in VMware

Published by marksie1988 on January 16, 2014

This is a question that I have been asked quite a lot recently. I have found multiple ways to do this but 2 are ones that I have used and find the most suitable.