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New vSphere Health Check 5.0 & ghettoVCB Script

07.29.2011 by William Lam // 8 Comments

The vSphere Health Check script has now been updated to support vSphere 5.0 and includes the following new features:

  • vCenter Server Instance UUID
  • vCenter hostname
  • Storage DRS Configuration (Maintenance Mode, Stats Aggregation, Stats Collection for Datastores)
  • FDM/HA Heartbeat Policy + Datastore
  • FDM/HA State
  • Host Agent Settings
  • Host New iSCSI Configuration/Information
  • Host FCoE HBAs
  • Host Source Packages for ESXi Services
  • Host ESXi Capabilities
  • Host SMC Hardware Information regarding OSX Support
  • Host Updated Firewall Rules (direction, port type, port, protocol and allowedIPs)
  • Host Cache SSD Datastore details
  • Host DVS IPFIX Details + NIOC
  • Virtual Machine Virtual Hardware Version
  • Virtual Machine Firmware, Initial overhead memory + swap
  • Virtual Machine State
  • Virtual Machine Snapshot consolidation + HA protection
  • Virtual Machine EZT Disk Type
  • Updated color mappings for multipath states
  • Support for standalone ESX(i) hosts without vCenter Clusters
  • New healthCheck.conf variables:  DVS_SUMMARY, DVS_CAPABILITY, DVS_CONFIG, DATASTORE_CLUSTER_SUMMARY, DATASTORE_CLUSTER_POD_CONFIG, DATASTORE_CLUSTER_POD_ADV_CONFIG, DATASTORE_CLUSTER_POD_STORAGE, HOST_ISCSI, HOST_AGENT, HOST_CACHE, VM_STATE, VM_EZT
  • Updated color scheme for HTML report

Here is an sample report that you can view.

For more details, please check out the vSphere Health Check Script document located here.

The popular free virtual machine backup script ghettoVCB has also been updated to support ESXi 5.0!

Categories // Uncategorized Tags // ESXi 5.0, health check script, vSphere 5.0

Ghetto Groups

01.20.2011 by William Lam // 1 Comment

Back in December, VMware upgraded their VMTN (VMware Technology Network) forum software Jive and introduced a completely new layout of the forums that would hopefully enhance the user experience. Though it brought many new features, it also brought on several new issues. The one bug that affected me was the incorrect conversion of the ghettoVCB document, because the conversion was unsuccessful it was decided to be left alone until the issue could be resolved. If you visited the document, it would display a "Forbidden" error message. Unfortunately due to the time it took to resolve, even Google cache started to get stale and stopped serving the cached contents.

Luckily, with the help of Alex Maier (VMTN Community Manager) and her team, she was able to get the ball rolling and got the fix tested and rolled out to production. The ghettoVCB document is once again alive and hopefully in no time it will be returned as the first search result on various search engines.

Going through the pain of receiving dozen of emails, private messages, tweets, etc. per week regarding the issue, I came to realize that VMTN document itself was not the right medium to host both content and user discussions. As it stands today, there are over 1,100+ comments which is pretty significant and managing and keeping up with the conversations is a pretty daunting task. I enjoy the feedback that community provides and the collaboration that takes place and I realize that this can be solved by using the new Groups feature.

To be honest, I did not spend much time looking at Groups when the VMTN software was upgraded, but now that the ghettoVCB document has been fixed, I realized this would fit this need perfectly. With the help of categories users can now post their feedback, discussions/issues and feature request and it can be easier consumed by both new users and myself. Starting today, I will have the following groups based on the top 5 most popular and active scripts:

ghettoVCB Group
ghettoVCBg2 Group
vmwarevSphereHealthCheck Group
vmwarevSphereSecurityHardening Group
ghettoUPSHostShutdown Group 

I have also disabled any new comments on these VMTN documents and will ask that all new comments be re-directed to respective VMware Groups. I'm currently working with Alex to see if there is an easy way to convert the existing comments into a document and attached that as a download to help minimize the complexity of the document. In the worse case, the comments will be left alone as read-only as I think the discussion that currently exists are invaluable. All other VMTN documents that I maintain in the vGhetto Repository will continue to use comments and depending on how well the groups go, I may migrate those over as well.

I hope these new groups will be beneficial for everyone and I am looking forward to the collaboration. Thanks for your support and please help spread the word!

Categories // Uncategorized Tags // ghettoVCB, ghettoVCBg2, health check script, security

Updated vSphere Health Check & Security Hardening Report Scripts

12.28.2010 by William Lam // 1 Comment

Check out the minor update to the popular vSphere Health Check Script, now at v4.1.5, there was a minor typo issue that has now been resolved.

The vSphere 4.0 Security Hardening Guide has gotten a few updates from VMware since it's initial draft released back in January this year. The latest version includes a few revisions and my vSphere Security Hardening Report script v0.2 has not gotten an update since it's first release four days after VMware's draft. I finally found some time over the holiday to update the script and incorporate the feedback I received throughout the year. There are some new features and bug fixes and you can take a look at the change log more details. I encourage you to check out the new 1.0 version here.

Here is an updated sample report.
vmwarevSphereSecurityHardeningReport-SAMPLE.html

If you run into any issues or would like to report any bugs, please leave a message in the appropriate VMTN document.

Categories // Uncategorized Tags // health check script, security

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