Author Archives: brian.wuchner

VMware Tools and vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

Posted on December 26, 2012 by brian.wuchner

I recently deployed the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) virtual appliance to an ESXi 5.1 host. While it worked fine, the VMware Tools Version Status displayed ‘3rd-party/independent’ instead of Current. While this is normal, I was on a kick to get … Continue reading →

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vCenter Plugins, SSL certificates, ExtensionManager and Powershell – what more could you want for Christmas?

Posted on December 24, 2012 by brian.wuchner

I was recently working in a lab environment trying to register the vCenter Operations 5.6 virtual appliance into a vCenter Virtual Appliance environment. As a standard practice I like to issue CA signed certificates to everything — even in a … Continue reading →

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Verify root password on a group of hosts

Posted on November 6, 2012 by brian.wuchner

I recently received several existing ESX hosts to support. As part of the transition I received the root password used by all of the hosts. I wanted to verify that the password I had was correct, so I threw together … Continue reading →

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NAA ID To VMAX Device ID – using powershell

Posted on November 2, 2012 by brian.wuchner

A few months ago I noticed a link to this awesome article titled: NAA id’s and breaking them apart, which dissects the NAA identifiers that you see in the vSphere client when looking at storage devices. Recently I was working … Continue reading →

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Detaching SCSI LUNs from ESXi hosts

Posted on October 29, 2012 by brian.wuchner

About a month ago I experienced a production outage that related to improper removal of storage from a cluster. In this scenario, VMFS file systems were deleted from FC devices and then the FC devices were removed from the hosts. … Continue reading →