Category Archives: Scripting

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 →

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Create Win32_Process

Posted on October 27, 2012 by brian.wuchner

When I first started with powershell, I converted some functions from a VBscript template I used into powershell code. One of those functions used WMI to create a process on a remote machine and then return the process ID that … Continue reading →

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Using vSphere Image Builder and Powerpath/VE

Posted on September 10, 2012 by brian.wuchner

I typically use vSphere Image Builder to create custom ISO images that contain EMC PowerPath VE. The problem is, I need to add three packages in the correct order — and I never can remember the correct order. A few … Continue reading →

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