After a 6 hour round of maintenance one night, we ended up with a fouled External PSC and vCenter server. VMware wanted us to pull logs from the ailing systems but we had restored from backup leaving the non-functioning VMs in place with a different name. Obvously, we couldn’t boot the VMs in the Production […]
You are browsing archives for
Tag: Configuration
Refresh VMware inventory without removing VMs
If you have several VMs in your VMware inventory that are shown as either inaccessible or invalid, you can actually reload the configuration without the need to shutdown the VM or put the host in maintenance mode. This is done via the reload method on the Virtual Machine View object in PowerCLI. The result is […]