March 2009 – getSurreal

Pass Output of One Command to Another

This entry was posted in Linux and tagged command line script on March 25, 2009 by getSurreal

The below Linux command has one purpose, to create a file with the current date in a single command line, but its concept can be used in many other ways. date +%Y-%m-%d | xargs -I {} touch file_{}

Do your VMs have all the resources you think they have?

This entry was posted in VMware and tagged Power Shell PowerShell resource allocation script shares unlimited VI Toolkit VMware on March 25, 2009 by getSurreal

I have a ‘well established’ VMware infrastructure that started back in ESX 1.51. So obviously I have been through many upgrades and/or migrations, but even though my ESX servers have been rebuilt, my VMs from older versions were not. I don’t remember which revision or which combination of upgrade/migration caused it, but it did warn […]