Category Archives: Scripting

Find upper range of AD attributes

Posted on May 25, 2012 by brian.wuchner

The other day I was working on a powershell script to copy specific Active Directory attributes to a SQL database. I wanted to see if the destination SQL fields (which were varchar 100) would be able to contain the attributes, … Continue reading →

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Finding VMs that will boot into the BIOS screen

Posted on May 15, 2012 by brian.wuchner

A few months ago, after a round of Windows OS patching on development servers, a server admin notified me that their server did not come back online after the patch initiated reboot. Looking at the VM console he noted that … Continue reading →

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Power On virtual machine – Unable to access file since it is locked

Posted on April 30, 2012 by brian.wuchner

Several times in the past few weeks I have ran into virtual machines that do not power on because of locked files. Steps to troubleshoot this issue are described in KB10051: Virtual machine does not power on because of locked … Continue reading →

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Verify VAAI settings with PowerCLI

Posted on April 23, 2012 by brian.wuchner

I recently had a need to validate that all hosts in a specific vCenter had appropriate vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) settings. I didn’t want to change the values, I was just looking for the existing values. This short … Continue reading →

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Disable SSL for VMware Converter 5 using powershell

Posted on April 9, 2012 by brian.wuchner

Starting with VMware Converter Standalone 5.0, the default action is to secure the P2V data with SSL. While this is nice if you are converting machines across an untrusted network or need the additional level of security, it can really … Continue reading →

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