I recently received several existing ESX hosts to support. As part of the transition I received the root password used by all of the hosts. I wanted to verify that the password I had was correct, so I threw together a quick script. You may notice below that the password…
A few months ago I noticed a link to this awesome article titled: NAA id’s and breaking them apart, which dissects the NAA identifiers that you see in the vSphere client when looking at storage devices. Recently I was working with my storage admin — I was seeing a 2.81MB…
About a month ago I experienced a production outage that related to improper removal of storage from a cluster. In this scenario, VMFS file systems were deleted from FC devices and then the FC devices were removed from the hosts. I’ve seen this done hundreds of times without issue, but…
When I first started with powershell, I converted some functions from a VBscript template I used into powershell code. One of those functions used WMI to create a process on a remote machine and then return the process ID that was created. The function is included at the end of…
I typically use vSphere Image Builder to create custom ISO images that contain EMC PowerPath VE. The problem is, I need to add three packages in the correct order — and I never can remember the correct order. A few tries and I usually have what I need. I thought…