This is a two blog post divided into two posts. The second will be published within a week from this one.
Today we lack information about virtual servers in our VMware environment which cause problems within each billing period with manual labour of verifying disk size, memory and cpu of each VM. With little to no money we needed a way to inventory and save the information for others to use and present it on a website.
If you have setup something in an Linux environment you have most likely done some troubleshooting. The command tail -f [path] is very convenient command. I had no idea that a similar existed on Windows until recently. In powershell to read a file, the command Get-Content is very neat. I had no idea that with “-wait” you could get the same result as in “-f” in tail. Very handy for parsing Windows firewall logs.
I had a minor issue with lingering ISOs in an VMM-environment. The issue wasn’t a technical one but a “soft” one. The users admins of the environment did not unmount ISOs after usage. So I created a small script that is triggered once a day and unmounts all ISOs that is more than a week old.