Category Archives: Scripting

Network related vSphere checks

Posted on February 12, 2013 by brian.wuchner

The following two sections of code can be ran independently or used in conjunction with Alan Renouf’s vCheck script. They return network specific issues that could happen in a vSphere environment. The first check makes use of a $clusters variable, … Continue reading →

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General vSphere Cluster counts/averages

Posted on February 11, 2013 by brian.wuchner

A year or so ago, I had added some generic sections to Alan Renouf’s vCheck 5 script, which I was using to report on several environments that I managed. A few months ago, Alan released a new version of vCheck … Continue reading →

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SQL Database Documentation

Posted on January 15, 2013 by brian.wuchner

Over the years I’ve done quite a bit of scripting. Many of those scripts SELECT, INSERT or UPDATE a SQL database. The other day I was looking at my tables and realized I didn’t know what (or if) some of … 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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