Comments for VirtIRL http://virtirl.com Virtualization: In Real Life Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:01:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Datastore usage via powershell by The Japinator http://virtirl.com/?p=64&cpage=1#comment-155 The Japinator Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:01:47 +0000 http://www.virtirl.com/?p=64#comment-155 Dito Ashok. Fantastic script!

]]> Comment on Expanding a VM’s hard drive using Powershell by chouse http://virtirl.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-73 chouse Tue, 06 Nov 2012 02:32:54 +0000 http://www.virtirl.com/?p=59#comment-73 Sure, Clonezilla or Gparted would work fine – but they require a reboot. Powershell to expand the VMDK and extpart to expand the partition all allow growing the system drive while the VM is running. No reboot required.

]]> Comment on Expanding a VM’s hard drive using Powershell by Ken http://virtirl.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-72 Ken Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:58:11 +0000 http://www.virtirl.com/?p=59#comment-72 I have expanded hundreds of virtual disks with very few issues using clonezilla. Just mount the VM’s CD drive to the clonezilla ISO and boot it. There were times when this corrupted some disks but I never figured out what caused it and it hasn’t happened in a long while.

This works on XP, and every other version of Windows I use.

]]> Comment on Changing ESXi Syslog from verbose by E.J. Hayes http://virtirl.com/?p=56&cpage=1#comment-63 E.J. Hayes Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:50:23 +0000 http://www.virtirl.com/?p=56#comment-63 Thanks for posting the tip!

We are running ESXi 4.1 Patch rev 582267. Tried the services.sh restart and even killing the syslog process. Only a reboot would cause the changes to take effect.

]]> Comment on Datastore usage via powershell by Ashok http://virtirl.com/?p=64&cpage=1#comment-62 Ashok Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:42:41 +0000 http://www.virtirl.com/?p=64#comment-62 Fantastic script it works like a dream

]]> Comment on Changing ESXi Syslog from verbose by Chris C http://virtirl.com/?p=56&cpage=1#comment-59 Chris C Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:59:10 +0000 http://www.virtirl.com/?p=56#comment-59 Very nice. Very helpful.

I incorporated this into my kickstart profile for vsphere

/C

]]> Comment on Datastore usage via powershell by chouse http://virtirl.com/?p=64&cpage=1#comment-48 chouse Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:51:10 +0000 http://www.virtirl.com/?p=64#comment-48 I am honored to have the great LucD offer his praise!

]]> Comment on Datastore usage via powershell by LucD http://virtirl.com/?p=64&cpage=1#comment-47 LucD Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:49:43 +0000 http://www.virtirl.com/?p=64#comment-47 Great script! Keep them coming.

]]> Comment on Changing ESXi Syslog from verbose by gcballard http://virtirl.com/?p=56&cpage=1#comment-46 gcballard Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:52:55 +0000 http://www.virtirl.com/?p=56#comment-46 Pretty sweet. I’m chicken though so I think I’ll do it manually. I don’t have nearly as many hosts (8).

]]> Comment on Expanding a VM’s hard drive using Powershell by chouse http://virtirl.com/?p=59&cpage=1#comment-45 chouse Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:57:25 +0000 http://www.virtirl.com/?p=59#comment-45 That is true, but in XP, you cannot use diskpart to extend the C: drive, but you can use Dell’s extpart.

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