Category Archives: Scripting

Getting data out of vCOps

Posted on October 3, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I’ve been troubleshooting a specific problem where storage latency jumps very high during very short periods of time, usually in the late evening/very early morning hours. The latency is very bad, sometimes in the 2,000ms+ neighborhood. My storage guys see … Continue reading →

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Resize Guest System Partition with PowerCLI

Posted on September 27, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I recently needed to resize system partitions on several Windows 2008R2 virtual machines. To do this with Set-HardDisk the virtual machines must be powered off and you need a helper VM. I was looking for a way to do this … Continue reading →

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Script to ping a list of computer names

Posted on August 31, 2013 by brian.wuchner

A few weeks ago, I co-worker asked for a script to ping a list of computer names. I thought I had one on my blog, but couldn’t find it. I decided to post a copy here to make it easier … Continue reading →

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Reviewing DNS logs with PowerShell

Posted on July 6, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I recently helped out on a project where DNS services were being moved to different hosts with new IP addresses. After updating the DHCP scope options and static DNS configuration settings on all servers, the team turned on DNS logging … Continue reading →

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Quickly power on virtual machines with PowerCLI Get-View

Posted on July 5, 2013 by brian.wuchner

I recently had a need to power on a lot of virtual machines in a specific order. I was given several text files each numbered with a startup sequence. At a specific time I would be given a number and … Continue reading →

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