Tag: VMware
VMware Hot-Add is an awesome feature – adding CPUs and RAM to a virtual machine without having to power off, however have you ever wondered why it isn’t enabled by default? Recently I was reviewing our VM templates at work and was wondering if we should turn on CPU Hot-Add and Memory Hot-Add on our templates, therefore making it available for all new VMs. I did some research, and this is what I found….
Recently I had to patch some ESXi hosts that weren’t being managed via Update Manager. This means that the only way was to patch them manually. The best way I find to do this is via PowerCLI which is just PowerShell cmdlets for vSphere. I thought I would make a post about it in case anyone else needed to do the same…