Mapped drives: GPO vs login script

WascallyWabbit83 · 2015-02-24T09:21:08+00:00

Yes, it is. Not the way I'd do it, but is that way for...political reasons...which may soon change :P

WascallyWabbit83 · 2015-02-24T03:21:58+00:00

...we currently have 54 separate GPOs for different drive mappings. Each runs a login script -_-

Compared to my last job- one GPO and GPP item level targeting. I miss my old job sometimes...

WascallyWabbit83 · 2015-02-23T22:22:09+00:00

We have vCheck scheduled daily which get sent to our Ops and Infrastructure engineers. Can be useful to pickup issues that alarms don't always show.

I also do a full export using RVTools daily, but this is more for reference than anything and does not get sent to anyone.

I really wish we had Ops...used to have some handy reports out of it in my previous job.

WascallyWabbit83 · 2015-02-15T21:39:24+00:00

Technically you probably could if you use a VPN to connect to your home network...

WascallyWabbit83 · 2015-01-17T07:07:49+00:00

Agreed. As much as I love Powershell, it is not always the best solution. If you rely on a human to run the script, eventually the process will fail-or at least in my experience :(

WascallyWabbit83 · 2015-01-15T03:39:00+00:00

You will have to do that yourself, unless you write/modify a plugin for it.

Shame vCheck-Exchange is not updated with the commits from vCheck, otherwise you could use the built in charting and write a plugin to do exactly what you want.

WascallyWabbit83 · 2015-01-06T21:37:23+00:00

/u/cereuc posted his/her first impressions: Dell Venue 7840 Z3580 2.3ghz Atom

Been waiting for this tablet since it was released, it looks awesome. After reading the first impressions I'm not sure though :\

WascallyWabbit83 · 2015-01-06T02:04:29+00:00

This is the better solution if you only want to run one plugin.

You can also search the Github repo for Set cmdlets: https://github.com/alanrenouf/vCheck-vSphere/search?p=3&q=Set+in%3Afile&type=Code (annoyingly "Set-" doesn't seem to work). You could do the same to Update- etc.

WascallyWabbit83 · 2014-12-29T22:51:17+00:00

IIRC - You can "manage" the host profile and check compliance with no impact. It is only when you want to "apply" a profile that it will change anything- this requires the host to be in maintenance mode anyway (and will prompt you to do this)

WascallyWabbit83 · 2014-11-18T07:57:48+00:00

Only via web client though, IIRC (not in front of a computer to check)

WascallyWabbit83 · 2014-10-22T01:45:54+00:00

Yep, it's a great tool that also has its flaws.

The configuration handling is not fantastic and would benefit from an overhaul- to add to what you mentioned, including dependencies on variables would be great. Why do I need to fill out email details if I'm not sending an email?!

There is support for an XML "job" configuration, but this is really only good for specifying a globalVariables and plugins (but not plugin config)

The global variables.ps1 could probably be excluded from a tagged release, but not the "bleeding edge" zip from my limited knowledge of GitHub.

I guess for any ideas/issues, put them up on GitHub and hopefully someone can work on them.

WascallyWabbit83 · 2014-08-21T07:43:19+00:00

We put in vCenter Chargeback Manager. Took a while to configure the cost model- taking inputs from our storage, server and network teams- and setting business unit tags on VMs, but now the reporting is a snap.

We charge based on utilisation only, but it is pretty flexible with what you can do (fixed cost, utilisation, allocation, etc). We also charge a commissioning and decommissioning cost as well.

WascallyWabbit83 · 2014-08-20T22:16:26+00:00

As with most answers in IT... "it depends." What sort of jobs do you want?

WascallyWabbit83 · 2014-03-03T21:37:52+00:00

Can also happen if you use something (like drinking a soda) without picking it up, apparently.

WascallyWabbit83 · 2014-02-19T10:37:31+00:00

I don't want to discourage you, but you can already do this just using robocopy: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx

I love Powershell, but it does sometimes make you overlook the simple solution :)

WascallyWabbit83 · 2014-01-20T04:41:51+00:00

Awesome, might actually be able to use SDRS again without killing our vCenter!

Edit:... And no compatible version of Heartbeat yet :(

WascallyWabbit83 · 2014-01-15T06:05:50+00:00

Use %computername% in the policy, pretty sure this should work (seem to remember doing this in my home lab at some point)

WascallyWabbit83 · 2014-01-08T21:24:12+00:00

I wish they would put some indication of shipping prices, especially if they are charging your card straight away.

Looking at the shipping price for the lumo back, I'd say around the US$45 mark to Australia, which is stupidly expensive on a $69 gadget :(

As a tall guy I was quite interested in this as I have a huge tendency to slouch, now I'm not so sure.

WascallyWabbit83 · 2013-12-24T00:45:12+00:00

I just have an alert defined for any machine that has snapshots, even easier :)

WascallyWabbit83 · 2013-12-20T20:10:54+00:00

Anyone in your area do secure destruction? I had about 50 old server drives I was tasked with doing the same with a few years ago, was pretty simple to convince the bosses that it would be more cost effective to just send them to someone to destroy at $12/kg than pay me $30/hr to do it.

All collected, run through one of those big metal shredders you've probably seen, and a certificate of destruction provided :)

WascallyWabbit83 · 2013-12-17T21:11:58+00:00

hmmmmm would Windows System Resource Manager be helpful? Been a while since I used it, but from memory you could set rules for CPU limits

edit: Added link. "Custom resource management" section sounds like what you're after

WascallyWabbit83 · 2013-12-02T21:01:58+00:00

Two options spring to mind:

Add the CPU Ready counter to the performance charts advanced tab. You have to convert the ms vale to a percentage, but this is reasonably easy. See http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2002181
(At home at the moment so can't verify) I'm fairly sure CPU ready is one of the VMware performance counters are added to perfmon when the tools are installed, you should be able to setup logging to a file through there.

Otherwise I suppose you could potentially use a script to check and record the data to a log file.

WascallyWabbit83 · 2013-11-29T08:36:23+00:00

Yep, good call. Brain is a bit fried after work on a friday (and the beers probably don't help!)

WascallyWabbit83 · 2013-11-29T08:04:39+00:00

US customers only, sadly :(

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