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Over the last few days, my coworker and I have been working on a script that will go out and collect detailed network information for each NIC on our ESX hosts. Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, I strolled over to Alan Reneuf’s website (www.virtu-al.net). I had remembered seeing a script (“More Network Info”) he […]
I came across an issue this weekend that I wanted to share. I’ve written a script that automates the process my company uses to conduct a refresh of a production machine. Recently, we’ve upgraded our vCenter from 4.0 to 4.1. In addition, PowerCLI was upgraded to 4.1.1. Of course, some things are off on my […]
I’m currently writing an application (it’s a huge script – 2100 lines of code) in powershell to automate a weekly VM refresh operation that my team does every Saturday. At the end of the script, I wanted to check the newly deployed virtual machines to verify that the automated scripts did what they were supposed […]
Yesterday, I posted a modified script that can be used to shutdown all VMs and ESX hosts in an environment. That script is useful for when you need to bring down an entire environment. It’s easier to have a script go in and gracefully power off all VMs and ESX hosts, versus all the right-clicking […]
Recently I had a vSphere 4.0 U1 environment experience a major outage. I had to bring down our entire environment consisting of 242 guests and 6 hosts. I knew that I had a bash script that I wrote for a 3.5 environment for this scenario, but due to logistical reasons it was unavailable. I had […]