vSphere Web client vs the Desktop client

The vSphere Web Client is quite “infamous” for its dependence on Flash and its performance related issues. However, the fact remains that the Web Client is the only way to manage the new features on vSphere. Now having said that,...

PowerCLI from inside the vSphere Web Client

PowerActions for the vSphere Web Client is one interesting fling was released by VMware recently and is a nice marriage of the UI with the CLI.This plugin for the Web Client allows you to run the powerCLI scripts that you...

ESXi Log Files

Working with ESX(i) log files is important when troubleshooting issues within the virtual environment. So which information is stored where? Below is a list of the log files and what they contain. Note that all of them are located in...

PowerCLI script to update all Hosts via VUM

Using PowerCLI for VUM, it becomes a lot easier to remediate all the hosts. All you need to do is to enable DRS in fully automated mode and then attach the baselines to the host. Then run the below script...

Creating a Database for VCenter in Oracle 12c

 Container Databases (CDB) and Pluggable Databases (PDB) for oracle 12 C The multitenant option represents one of the biggest architectural changes in the history of the Oracle database. This option introducs the concepts of the Container Database (CDB) and Pluggable...