Virtually Jason

As a quick followup to my note around the Full netGP Heap Issue , we've found ourselves in need of a way to easily monitor the netGP status across many hosts in the environment while we await the patch that fixes the issue.  I've searched high and low for a way to access vsish or the netGP Heap stats from PowerCLI but haven't had any luck.  So, I've put together a quick and dirty solution... but it gets the job done. All that I've done here is put together a quick PowerCLI script that generates a Shell Script (just redirect the output to a file).  That Shell Script can then be executed from one of your ESXi servers (ensure that SSH is enabled!) in order to pull information from all of the servers in your environment. $AllHosts = Get-VMHost foreach ($ThisHost in $AllHosts) { write-output "echo Host $ThisHost" write-output "ssh $ThisHost 'vsish -e cat /system/heaps/netGPHeap-0x4100013cc000/stats' | grep 'percent free of max si...

A few customers have been hit by an intermittent issue where virtual machines seem to reject their network adapters.  In Windows, this shows up as the guest OS reporting a hardware failure on the NIC (which, given that the NIC is virtual, is bit of a hard sell).  So, while the VM has a network adapter attached to it and it is connected to the network, the VM doesn’t get any network access.  If you open up device manager, the “general tab” for the network adapter will show an error (error 10 if memory serves).  When you try to update the driver on the NIC, it will fail to install it.  I’ve only ever seen this with the vmxnet3 adapter, but I’ve heard that it can affect e1000 as well. Typically, the VM’s network connectivity can be restored by some combination of removing the vNIC from the VM and adding it back (well, it’s technically a new one as it will have a new MAC address), reinstalling the VMTools and/or removing nonpresent NICs from the guest OS.  T...