Category Archives: Virtualization

Enable vSphere console copy/paste without power off — the PowerCLI way

Posted on October 10, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I’ve had an ongoing love/hate relationship with security for years. Today it was heavy on the hate. I rarely have a need to copy/paste between my desktop and a VM console. I normally use some other method to connect to … Continue reading →

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View 5.0 Upgrade issues

Posted on October 2, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I recently upgraded a View 4.6 installation to 5.0. The update went pretty well until I went to update the View agent inside the desktop sources. The install kept failing with the following error message: Error 1722. There is a … Continue reading →

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PowerCLI vCheck 5.45 – Updated export options

Posted on September 27, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I started working on this update in the airport the Sunday before VMworld 2011. It is only a minor update to exporting the reports and sending email notifications. In this update, all of the code to send emails and/or export … Continue reading →

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Network configuration missing from ESXi host

Posted on September 12, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I came back from an awesome week at VMworld to find a very odd networking issue on several production ESXi 4.1 hosts. I first noticed that the hosts in question had an HA warning, so I attempted to ‘Reconfigure for … Continue reading →

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PowerCLI vCheck and PowerShell 1.0 support

Posted on September 4, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I’ve been looking at some of the vCheck 5 code looking for possible code improvements. There are a few changes that I believe could simplify the script, but require PowerShell v2. One that comes to mind would be using Send-MailMessage … Continue reading →

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