If you have read my previous article on creating customer dashboards, you might now be thinking “I’ve defined which logs are important to me but how do I make sure I’m being notified as soon as they happen?”, vRealize Log Insight makes this just as easy to achieve. Simply follow these steps: Go to your
Now that you have vRealize Log Insight ingesting all those logs, your next stop is going to be making sense of all that data in a way thats meaningful to you or your service owners. Luckily its very straight forward to create custom dashboards. Create a dashboard, remember to click share if you want other
While running through a large vSAN cluster upgrade project recently i ran into the occasional issue where hosts would fail to exit maintenance mode following an upgrade from ESXi 6.7U3 to 7.0. The error seen was “A general system error occurred: end of header not found” This is caused by unused entries in the hostd
Here is a short script that will list all VMs that have Swapped & Ballooned Memory, it can be useful for tracking down VMs experiencing performance issues on clusters running into contention issues get-vm | select name, @{N=’MemoryMB’;E={$_.MemoryMB}}, @{N=’SwappedMemory’;E={$_.ExtensionData.Summary.QuickStats.SwappedMemory}}, @{N=’Ballooned’;E={$_.ExtensionData.Summary.QuickStats.BalloonedMemory}} | Where {$_.SwappedMemory -ne “0” -or $_.Ballooned -ne “0”} | ft
While I know there are a 1000 blog posts out there talking about CPU overcommitment, I felt compelled to write my own following a conversation I had recently. Me: “I’ve noticed you’re running 6.25:1 overcommitment ratio. Have you looked into how your VMs are performing recently? Customer: “No, the hosts CPU doesn’t look busy and
The script below will pull a list of all of your hosts and display the real time metrics for Power Usage, CPUusage% & Memoryusage% to allow you to make changes to your power settings etc and see what impact it has on utilization for a given % of demand. get-vmhost | Select name, @{N=“Time“;E={$(get-date -f
The function “VP-WhichHost” will check the average CPU & Memory utilization of a specified cluster and then display all hosts that are below the average. All results are taken from real time metrics. It is broken out into 3 sections of “Below Average Memory”, “Below Average CPU” & “Below both AVG CPU & Memory” to
The function “VP-HostCDPInfo” will list all hosts in cluster $Global:CLUChoice from DC $Global:DCChoice, you can then select a host and list its CDP information for each NIC Get host CDP Informationfunction VP-HostCDPInfo { $hosts = Get-datacenter $Global:DCChoice | Get-Cluster $Global:CLUChoice | get-vmhost Write-Host “================ Select host ================” $i = 1 $hosts | ForEach-Object -Process {
All the commands below reference variables created from my menu system post, obviously if you are not using that menu you will need to change them to work with your environment.These are just some of the commands i used recently on an audit: To Export to CSV simply append the following to the end of
