Time for the next PowerCLI bug. The Set-VDUplinkTeamingPolicy CMDlet has problems with the “failback” option.
It is possible to switch “Failback” from true to false, but not from false to true.
Small and short article for today: how to setup and configure Splunk Forwarder for Debian Linux. This is also valid for all Debian derivates like Ubuntu etc. In the Splunk universe the Forwarder is installed on your machine, collects data and events generated by your OSs and forward it to your Splunk Indexer.
Version 5.7.1 of vCenter Operations has a problem displaying Data in Dashboards if you install the standalone Analytics Server with non english language settings. To workaround the problem add “Duser.language=en” to the vcopsWebService configuration and restart the service.
As described in SQL queries to filter vCOps alerts and events it is not possible to filter events and alarms by other things than the resource name column. It is also not possible to filter by alarm type or level.
Today a colleague has asked me how to optimize a PowerCLI query for virtual machines in a certain virtual datacenter. He want’s to avoid a expensive GET-VM query and he seeks a solution to do that with get-view.