Category Archives: Scripting

ESXiBackup Folder Cleanup

Posted on September 21, 2010 by brian.wuchner

In an earlier post Directory partition has not been backed up [DC=virtualcenter,DC=vmware,DC=int] I suggested a method to backup the VMwareVCMSDS ADAM database. As Joern posted in a comment, this solution could fill up your D: drive. The following code should … Continue reading →

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Directory partition has not been backed up [DC=virtualcenter,DC=vmware,DC=int]

Posted on August 15, 2010 by brian.wuchner

With the help of Alan Renouf’s vCheck (Daily Report) script I recently started noticing an error in my Windows event log on a vCenter server. This directory partition has not been backed up since at least the following number of … Continue reading →

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Active Directory: Find recent NO_CLIENT_SITE subnets

Posted on August 11, 2010 by brian.wuchner

From time to time I try to verify that all of my subnet boundaries are properly defined in AD Sites and Services. At some locations this is a little more challenging — especially when a site has many domain controllers. … Continue reading →

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Create a bunch of snapshots with PowerCLI

Posted on August 10, 2010 by brian.wuchner

Last week I was working with snapshots in my lab. I came up with this one liner to create a bunch of snapshots on the same virtual machine: for ($i=1; $i -le 5; $i++) {get-vm “snaptest” |new-snapshot -name “snapshot00$i” -Description … Continue reading →

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Check ESXi to see if sshd is listening

Posted on June 16, 2010 by brian.wuchner

In a recent service request with VMware, Tech Support enabled ssh on one of my ESXi hosts. Unfortunately, the outage that prompted my support request impacted multiple hosts in different clusters, so we were looking at many things in the … Continue reading →

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