Rolling restart of ESXi management agents using PowerCLI
Right after my (waaay too short) holidays finished I was faced with the issue described in this KB. Nothing really serious, but an annoyance, that everybody...
October 6, 2014
Author: Sebastian Baryło
How to make PowerCLI script act (almost) like a Windows service.
In the final stage of my preparation to VCAP5-DCA exam (that I passed on September 1st – yeah I couldn’t help to brag a little about...
September 29, 2014
The ultimate VM batch deployment script.
In my first blog post ever, almost three months ago I shared my good ol’ script for batch deployment of virtual machines. That script served me...
August 25, 2014
PowerCLI report on storage paths (mis)configuration.
After drifting away into some niche topics in my previous post, I’m back to my “hobby@work” – PowerCLI scripting! Anybody who ever worked with block storage...
August 18, 2014
Auto Deploy – bulk licensing and Authentication Proxy.
There are great many resources on vSphere Auto Deploy you can find on the Web. Artur wrote about it more than a year ago, I can...
August 7, 2014
PowerCLI script to report and change host NTP settings
The script I would like to share today is in a way supplementary to what I wrote about in my previous post. For those who don’t know...
July 28, 2014
Script to disable time synchronization in VM… and more!
Time synchronization of Guest OS-es running vmware virtual machines is a very important topic that has been extensively covered in VMware documentation. General recommendation for all types of OS-es...
July 21, 2014
How to manage PSA claimrules and SATP rules with esxcli
I will not try to explain PSA here, there is enough resources to read about it (if you asked me for recommendation I’d suggest Cormac Hogan’s excellent...
July 7, 2014
PowerCLI script to report Guest OS disk usage
[Update, December 2nd, 2014] You might be also interested in an revised version of this script, that I posted here [/Update] Anybody can have a bad day,...
June 30, 2014
How to use partedUtil to recover damaged VMFS5 (GPT) partition table
Personally I’m a big fan of using NFS (over 10GbE of course) storage with vSphere, I believe the performance gain that FC solutions offer is not...
June 23, 2014
