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 VMware HA’ which resulted in the following error message: Cannot…
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 instead of a custom function that sends mail using the…
It has been nearly three months since I last posted an update to vCheck, but I haven’t forgot about the script. Here are a couple of things I have been working on: # Version 5.44- bwuch: cleaned up comments and logging # Version 5.43- bwuch: resolved bug with “Host Build…
I was looking through the vCheck Feature Request tracking spreadsheet that I’ve been working on for several months. I found this comment that was originally posted in September 2010: One of the Heading in the scripts says number of Inactive machines. What exactly it means that the machines are turned…
A few weeks ago I updated the BIOS on several Dell R810 servers running ESXi 4.1U1. After applying the update I disabled the C-States and C1E settings as described here: http://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/virtualization/vmware-esxi-psod-on-dell-server/. Once I had all my updates completed, I wanted to validate that each host was reporting the latest BIOS…