One of the unique but potentially frustrating things about the environment that I support is that many of the clusters & guests are setup the same exact way at multiple locations. PowerCLI has really helped reduce the amount of time it takes to verify settings, and to set them correctly (although, that’s another post). This […]
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Ghetto host evacuation: PowerCLI
Do you need to easily evacuate a clustered vSphere host, and you don’t have DRS (no vSphere Enterprise/Plus licensing)? Then look no further. This little beauty will get you pointed in the right direction, and save you some time.
ESX & ESXi counts: PowerCLI
Nothing too fancy here, just a quick and dirty way to find the current counts of all of my ESXi 4.1 (Build 260247) versus the remaining ESX hosts.
HA restart priorities: PowerCLI
Each one of the vSphere clusters that I manage have an identical set of guests. I wrote this script as a handy way of setting/correcting any HA restart priorities per documented standards.
vSphere licensing via PowerCLI
After vSphere 4.1 hit the streets, my teammates and I decided to move from ESX 4.0 to ESXi 4.1 at all of our locations. With the exception of our primary datacenter, all of our locations were running vSphere 4.0 Standard licensing (read as: no vMotion). In order to quickly evacuate hosts to prepare them for […]