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Thanks for all the comments and thank you again to all of our readers for your support! Have a happy and safe New Years! See you in 2012
I can not believe it is that time of the year again! 2011 was a great year for myself and looking back, a lot has changed both in my professional and personal life. As 2011 starts to wind down, here are some interesting stats for this past year.
Total number of posts on virtuallyGhetto in 2011: 103
Total ghettoVCB pageviews: 600,000k (almost 300k more than 2010)
Here were the top 10 blog posts of 2011 by page views:
Here were the top 10 ghetto scripts of 2011 by page views:
Lastly, I want to take this time to thank all our readers for all of your support! If you already gotten this far into the post, you are in for a surprise. I will be giving away a free copy of Duncan Epping & Frank Denneman's VMware vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive colored copy. I received a signed copy from the gurus themselves for an article I wrote awhile back and ended up with two copies. To qualify, you just need to leave a comment with a valid email address. I will randomly select a winner on Dec 30th, 2011.
Happy Holidays and have a Happy New Year! See you in 2012.
UPDATE: Please take a look at this blog post for the winner The Winner Is ...
There was a question on the VMTN community forums about retrieving the security policies: promiscuous, forged transmits and MAC Address change from a distributed vSwitch and distributed portgroup and I realized my getdvSwitchInfo.pl script that I wrote awhile back only included basic information about the dvSwitch.
I spent some time updating my vSphere SDK for Perl script to include additional information such as the high level summary, configuration of the dvSwitch, network resource pools, dvportgroups, hosts attached to dvSwitch and virtual machines attached to the dvSwitch. The script also includes information about many of the new features in vSphere 5.0 networking such as netflow, port mirror, LLDP, NIOC to just name a few. You can take a look at the What's New in vSphere 5 Networking whitepaper for more details.
The script allows for the following type of "list" operations: summary, config, networkpool, portgroup, host and vm. In addition, you can display all information by specifying the "all" operation and you can specify a specific dvSwitch by using the --dvswitch flag and providing the name of a dvSwitch.
Here is an example output for the list "summary" operation for all dvSwitches:
Here is an example output for the list "config" operation on a specific dvSwitch:
Here is an example output for the list "networkpool" operation on a specific dvSwitch:
Here is an example output for the list "portgroup" operation on a specific dvSwitch:
Here is an example output for the list "host" operation on a specific dvSwitch:
Here is an example output for the list "vm" operation on a specific dvSwitch:
Hopefully this script will be helpful if you need to quickly get information about your dvSwitches.