Here is a quick and easy script that you can add to your crontab to monitor disk space consumption. Once you hit 85% disk utilization, you automatically send an email to yourself # cat space-monitor.sh #!/bin/bash #This script runs nightly to check disk space usage ADMIN=”macky@supermaru.com” df -h | grep -vE ‘^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom’ | awk ‘{print … Read more
Virtualization has made our lives easier. We can spin up new resources for applications, dynamically add more disk space, migrate them, etc. In vSphere, we can dynamically add additional memory and vCPU to a guest VM without any downtime (assuming its been enabled prior to powering on). Now in Ubuntu 12.04, I had two production … Read more
Ever wondered how do you find out what vCenter server is managing (or if there is any) a ESXi host? I’ve struggled for a while since there is no way via command line to see this information. vim-cmd, esxcli or esxcfg commands show nothing. I normally resorted to my Windows VM, launch the vSphere C# … Read more