Ensuring that your datastores are mounted across all hosts in a vSphere cluster is an important task that some may take for granted. By not doing so, you may be limiting the very reasons for which you clustered your ESXi… Continue Reading
Cleaning up old snapshots is one of the easiest ways that a virtualization administrator can reclaim storage capacity in their environment. Unlike reclaiming other resources such as CPU or Memory, deleting old snapshots doesn’t require downtime and therefore doesn’t usually… Continue Reading
Welcome back to part 2 of our vSphere .NET application development series. In part 1, we wrote an application that displays the VM’s, Hosts, and Clusters in our vCenter using the VMware.VIM library. Today, we’re going to build upon that application… Continue Reading
I’ve created an awful lot of PowerCLI scripts over the years and even created GUI’s for many of them using PowerShell Studio. It’s incredibly gratifying to be able to craft your own tools to make admin life easier while learning… Continue Reading
I have to start this post with a warning to run this script at your own risk. If you’re careful and know exactly what you’re doing, this can be very useful. Misuse of this script can cause data corruption and unnecessary outages. So… Continue Reading
We keep a matrix of all our ESXi host hardware information and this usually takes a few hours to touch each host and gather the information. It’s worth the time to ensure our environment is uniformed, however PowerShell/PowerCLI is able to make this much… Continue Reading
We recently audited all of our storage configurations and got a lot of mileage out of the following PowerCLI one-liner. This script checks all hosts connected to your vCenter for remote LUN’s that aren’t using the round robin PSP. HP recommends round… Continue Reading