Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Network configuration missing from ESXi host

Posted on September 12, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I came back from an awesome week at VMworld to find a very odd networking issue on several production ESXi 4.1 hosts. I first noticed that the hosts in question had an HA warning, so I attempted to ‘Reconfigure for … Continue reading →

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PowerCLI vCheck and PowerShell 1.0 support

Posted on September 4, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I’ve been looking at some of the vCheck 5 code looking for possible code improvements. There are a few changes that I believe could simplify the script, but require PowerShell v2. One that comes to mind would be using Send-MailMessage … Continue reading →

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PowerCLI vCheck 5.44

Posted on August 23, 2011 by brian.wuchner

It has been nearly three months since I last posted an update to vCheck, but I haven’t forgot about the script. Here are a couple of things I have been working on: # Version 5.44- bwuch: cleaned up comments and … Continue reading →

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vCheck 1.14: Inactive machines count

Posted on August 16, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I was looking through the vCheck Feature Request tracking spreadsheet that I’ve been working on for several months.  I found this comment that was originally posted in September 2010: One of the Heading in the scripts says number of Inactive … Continue reading →

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Using PowerCLI to find ESX/ESXi BIOS Versions

Posted on August 9, 2011 by brian.wuchner

A few weeks ago I updated the BIOS on several Dell R810 servers running ESXi 4.1U1. After applying the update I disabled the C-States and C1E settings as described here: http://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/virtualization/vmware-esxi-psod-on-dell-server/. Once I had all my updates completed, I wanted … Continue reading →

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