Ever wonder which virtual machine consoles were open? I was working on an unrelated script the other day and stumbled on the ‘NumMksConnections’ property. It is a simple integer that appears to contain the number of open Mouse-Keyboard-Screen connections to a virtual machine. A simple PowerCLI one liner will show…
I took a night off yesterday from home repairs and painting and decided to knock out a little more on the vCheck script. Here are the new features: # Version 5.27- bwuch: Added host uptime check # Version 5.26- bwuch: Added host OS pivot table # Version 5.25- bwuch: Added…
One of the best scripts I have ever used is the Virtu-Al.net vCheck daily report (http://www.virtu-al.net/featured-scripts/vcheck/). Not only does it show problems in your virtual infrastructure, it also shows the power of PowerCLI and PowerShell. A little over a month ago I decided I would attempt to learn more PowerCLI…
I recently needed to update the BIOS on a Dell PowerEdge M610 blade running ESXi 4.1 offsite. The server had an iDRAC Enterprise, giving me access to the local console and virtual media — however, the only BIOS update I could find from Dell was for Windows or DOS. This…
I support multiple vCenter environments. The most recent versions of PowerCLI support this through the use of multiple default servers. When you are connected to multiple vCenters commands such as ‘Get-VM’ will return VMs from both default servers. When you first attempt to connect to a second vCenter server you…