Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Which Virtual Machine consoles are open?

Posted on January 26, 2011 by brian.wuchner

Ever wonder which virtual machine consoles were open? I was working on an unrelated script the other day and stumbled on the ‘NumMksConnections’ property. It is a simple integer that appears to contain the number of open Mouse-Keyboard-Screen connections to … Continue reading →

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vCheck (daily report) version 5.27

Posted on January 21, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I took a night off yesterday from home repairs and painting and decided to knock out a little more on the vCheck script. Here are the new features: # Version 5.27- bwuch: Added host uptime check # Version 5.26- bwuch: … Continue reading →

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vCheck (Daily Report)

Posted on January 9, 2011 by brian.wuchner

One of the best scripts I have ever used is the Virtu-Al.net vCheck daily report (http://www.virtu-al.net/featured-scripts/vcheck/). Not only does it show problems in your virtual infrastructure, it also shows the power of PowerCLI and PowerShell. A little over a month … Continue reading →

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Dell M610 BIOS Update on ESXi 4.1

Posted on December 22, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I recently needed to update the BIOS on a Dell PowerEdge M610 blade running ESXi 4.1 offsite. The server had an iDRAC Enterprise, giving me access to the local console and virtual media — however, the only BIOS update I … Continue reading →

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Multiple Default Servers in PowerCLI

Posted on December 19, 2010 by brian.wuchner

I support multiple vCenter environments. The most recent versions of PowerCLI support this through the use of multiple default servers. When you are connected to multiple vCenters commands such as ‘Get-VM’ will return VMs from both default servers. When you … Continue reading →

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