Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Find ESXi Installation Date with PowerCLI

Posted on January 10, 2016 by brian.wuchner

I recently noticed a link to a very interesting article on Twitter: Find ESXi Installation Date — http://vcdx56.com/2016/01/05/find-esxi-installation-date/. These steps are straight forward and show how to calculate the original ESXi install date, looking at the first section of the … Continue reading →

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Do you have any way of getting IPs from a list of server names?

Posted on August 10, 2015 by brian.wuchner

A few days ago, someone asked a very basic question. Where is the opposite version of this script:http://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/scripting/do-you-have-any-way-of-getting-server-name-from-the-attached-list-of-ips/? They had a list of host names and wanted the associated IP addresses. Since it is somewhat common for a name to … Continue reading →

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Setup VSAN without vCenter using PowerCLI

Posted on August 3, 2015 by brian.wuchner

Recently @RuddyVCP (Blog | Twitter) and I worked on building a home lab to give away at the 2015 Indianapolis VMUG UserCon. The idea was we’d build a three node VSAN cluster using Intel NUC miniature PCs each with a … Continue reading →

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A missing folder, a missing day

Posted on December 29, 2014 by brian.wuchner

I recently moved some scheduled tasks from a Windows 2008R2 server to a Windows 2012R2 server. This should be the easy type of work: copy some files, enter some credentials, move on to another project. But as luck would have … Continue reading →

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Moving to XtremIO (or any other array)

Posted on April 28, 2014 by brian.wuchner

I was recently asked to help move VMs from one datastore backed by traditional spinning disk to an EMC XtremIO datastore. I was really excited as I wanted to see the power of an all flash array. As a best … Continue reading →