Category Archives: Virtualization

VMware ESXi Purple Screen of Death (PSOD) on Dell Server

Posted on June 21, 2011 by brian.wuchner

Last week I was informed of a customer who had a Purple Screen of Death on a Dell PowerEdge R810 running ESXi 4.1 Update 1. The stop screen showed the following reason: LINT1 motherboard interrupt. This is a hardware problem: … Continue reading →

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PowerCLI vCheck 5.40

Posted on May 31, 2011 by brian.wuchner

The other day I noticed two bugs in version 5.38 of the vCheck script. This minor update resolves those bugs and adds a check for 4.1 hosts without Active Directory authentication configured. # Version 5.40- bwuch: Host version greater than/equal … Continue reading →

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Configure virtual machine for nested ESX/ESXi with PowerCLI

Posted on May 17, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I’ve been working with several scripts in a lab recently. Most of these labs require additional ESXi hosts (namely vCheck testing) so I’ve been propping up some nested ESXi virtual machines. When I create a virtual machine to run nested … Continue reading →

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PowerCLI vCheck 5.38

Posted on May 14, 2011 by brian.wuchner

It has been a little over 3 months since I’ve posted an update to vCheck. I still have some features and bug checks I’d like to add, but figured I’d share the current state. Here are the in-code comments for … Continue reading →

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vSphere Snapshot Report

Posted on May 13, 2011 by brian.wuchner

I have been working on addressing a comment I noticed on the Virtu-Al vCheck comments (http://www.virtu-al.net/featured-scripts/vcheck/). The issue relates to a warning message returned in the “checking snapshots” section: 10:58:25 AM ..Checking Snapshots WARNING: Unable to populate snapshot size due … Continue reading →

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