Category: vCenter

• Managing vSphere DRS Groups and Rules with PowerShell

  Manually maintaining vSphere DRS Groups can be an onerous task. VCF Automation is a great tool to help with this but a simple PowerShell script can assist just as easy. Is this example, I needed all Windows VMs to exist on a DRS VM group. The first script provided, checks each cluster for Windows VMs…

  Donagh Moynihan

  February 13, 2026

  Cloud Computing, Menu, vCenter

  cloud, powershell, technology, vCenter, vmware

• vCenter Server – Key Provider Migration

  I had the daunting task of migrating from one key provider to another and I was pleasantly surprised how well it went so I wanted to share the steps I followed. Host Keys Virtual Machine Keys

  Donagh Moynihan

  April 23, 2024

  Cloud Computing, Menu, vCenter

  Encryption, Key Provider, security, vCenter, vmware

• The available storage IOPs capacity is not sufficient for the operation

  For anyone using Storage IOPs in VMware Cloud Director Tomas Fojta has a great post to explain how it works – VMware Cloud Director for Storage IOPs Management. I encountered a Storage DRS fault of “the available storage IOPs capacity is not sufficient for the operation” that was actually caused by the Cloud Director IOPs limit…

  Donagh Moynihan

  April 30, 2023

  Cloud Computing, Cloud Director, Menu, vCenter

  Cloud Director, IOPs, storage, Storage DRS, storage policy, vmware