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A quick way of finding out where your FSMO roles reside
A nice and simple blog post today, based on finding out where your FSMO roles lie, using just the command prompt. This is useful in a couple of different situations, namely: You don’t want to spend...
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Can’t find/create new VMFS datastore after removing old one using Add Storage...
Yesterday I was doing some out of hours work for a client who had a VM on a VMFS 3 datastore that only had a 1MB blocksize, but needed a data disk larger than 256GB. Naturally, the datastore needed...
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Get vCenter User Sessions and Idle times with PowerCLI
Today I was looking into a small “nice to have” notification system for users that had left their vSphere clients open and logged into vCenter. I found this great bit of script to list currently logged...
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Finding Vendor specific VIBs on ESXi hosts with PowerCLI
Example showing VIBs loaded on a host with a search of the vendor name "VMware" The other day I was trying to find a list of Custom VIBs (VMware Installation Bundles) that were installed on an ESXi...
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Using Project “Onyx” to find the equivalent PowerCLI script to achieve tasks...
A few days ago someone dropped a comment on one of my blog posts asking how they could Enter an ESXi host into maintenance without migrating VMs off of it automatically using PowerCLI. The -Evacuate...
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