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.
Archives for 2010
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. ๐
HA Alarms in vCenter: VMware
One of the best things about VMware is that, if everything is setup correctly, a cluster can experience a host failure or a host isolation with very little impact to the guests within that cluster. However, as nice as it is to experience a failure and not get paged at 3AM, it helps to know […]
Fun with NetApp: PowerShell
I finally got an opportunity to mess around with the PowerShell cmdlets for NetApp. Overall, I think that a storage vendor’s adoption of something like PowerShell is always a Good Thing. (From what I understand, EMC has PowerShell cmdlets out now, as well — but I digress.) There were a couple of things that I […]
Pinging multiple VM’s: PowerCLI
This script might not be handy for everyone, but in specific cases it can help you quickly determine which VM’s are not responding on the network. This is a slight modification from my Windows 2008 Guest Networking: PowerCLI article.