You’re not a leader if you’re not effective. What I mean is, even though you may have the title or the authority, it doesn’t do much good if you’re not effective at leading people. Sure, you can rule over people by enforcing your will, but without the desire to serve the folks you lead, and […]
Archives for October 2010
Modifying HP c-Class Blades via iLO and PowerShell
Ok, so the title might be a tad misleading, we’re not actually *using* PowerShell to modify iLO settings, but rather using PowerShell’s quick and easy ability to loop through an array of enclosures in order to make the iLO changes.
Cluster Evacuation & Reboot without DRS: PowerCLI
If you’ve upgraded to vSphere 4.1 and have Standard licensing, you may have noticed that vMotion is now supported at that licensing level. Previously, vMotion was only available with Enterprise licenses and above. (Storage vMotion is still a feature only available with Enterprise & Enterprise Plus.) One of the nice features about rebooting hosts in […]
DHCP Scope changes with PowerShell, PowerCLI, and netsh
Scenario: You administer multiple physical locations, all with their own DNS and DHCP servers, hosted on VMware. Due to architectural changes to the environment, you need a quick & efficient way to make changes to the DNS Server options in DHCP.
ESX(i) NTP Server settings: PowerCLI
I read a great post by Roger Lund today that discussed timekeeping in VMware virtual machines. That got me thinking, “How would this be handled with PowerCLI?” A blog post was born. 🙂