Author: Jackie Chen

vCO: List Virtual Machines with Snapshots


As a VMware administrator, making the VM snapshots under control is one of the critical tasks. I wrote up a ‘List all VM with snapshot’ workflow which generate a report showing the virtual machines that have snapshots. The key is in the scriptable task: vmWithSnapshots = new Array(); var vms = VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines(); var logtext; for(i … Continue reading vCO: List Virtual Machines with Snapshots →

MS Technical White Paper: Managing Windows 7 and Windows 8 Side-by-Side


This white paper discusses the planning, line-of-business application compatibility, imaging, security, and backend system considerations and experiences of the Microsoft IT team when managing desktop and laptop machines running Windows 8 and Windows 7 within the same corporate network. Many of the techniques and best practices described in this paper can be employed by other … Continue reading MS Technical White Paper: Managing Windows 7 and Windows 8 Side-by-Side →

vCO: Find out orphaned virtual machines workflow


vCO comes with many useful workflows. ‘Find orphaned virtual machines’ is a good example. It is designed for preventing the VM sprawl by finding out the orphaned virtual machines. The workflow works fine without any customizations, but I prefer to make it simpler. So I made a copy of this workflow, and named it as … Continue reading vCO: Find out orphaned virtual machines workflow →