Category Archives: Virtualization

Reload syslog configuration on ESXi

I recently updated Log Insight to version 3.3.2 in my lab. After selecting the appropriate PAK file, the UI displayed a warning containing the following text: Note that certain builds of ESXi need to have their syslog configuration reloaded after … Continue reading

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Find ESXi Installation Date with PowerCLI

I recently noticed a link to a very interesting article on Twitter: Find ESXi Installation Date — http://vcdx56.com/2016/01/05/find-esxi-installation-date/. These steps are straight forward and show how to calculate the original ESXi install date, looking at the first section of the … Continue reading

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Setup VSAN without vCenter using PowerCLI

Recently @RuddyVCP (Blog | Twitter) and I worked on building a home lab to give away at the 2015 Indianapolis VMUG UserCon. The idea was we’d build a three node VSAN cluster using Intel NUC miniature PCs each with a … Continue reading

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Moving to XtremIO (or any other array)

I was recently asked to help move VMs from one datastore backed by traditional spinning disk to an EMC XtremIO datastore.  I was really excited as I wanted to see the power of an all flash array. As a best … Continue reading

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PowerCLI: Getting LUN paths when using EMC PowerPath/VE

A few weeks back I wanted to verify some path counts per LUN. This is typically pretty easy and something that can be written as a one liner using standard PowerCLI cmdlets as such: Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun | Get-ScsiLunPath However, … Continue reading

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