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.
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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 […]