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PowerShell - Finally Testing PernixData!My home lab has been in need of some upgrades lately. One of the easiest, and cheapest, was the addition of PernixData and their FVP Freedom edition release. Couple of caveats I feel I should cover if you’ve never been exposed to PernixData’s FVP product:Oct 29, 2015
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PowerCLI 6.0 R2 - Announcing vROps IntegrationFor those that have been requesting some vCOps and/or vROps integration into PowerCLI, as I have been, we finally have our solution! PowerCLI 6.0 R2 brings that to the table in the form of a new module:VMware.Sep 15, 2015
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PoSh - Gathering VMware NSX Info via APII’ve been lucky enough to get a chance to do some work involving VMware’s NSX product lately. Having watched a bunch of VMworld sessions, live demos, and messed around with it in the VMware Hands on Labs I was fairly comfortable in an existing environment.Aug 24, 2015
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PowerShell - Configuring the HP iLO HostnameIf you’ve had any chance to use the HP Scripting Tools for Powershell at all you might have noticed some inconsistencies specific to the handling of server names. These issues are only made worse when combined with blade enclosures.Feb 17, 2015
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PowerCLI - View - Pool Health Check ReportI’ve been given the chance to work with View a little more here recently and focus in on some of the gaps that are missing, specifically around reporting and alerting. vC Ops and the View adapter are in use, however the alerts leave much to be desired.Dec 29, 2014
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PowerCLI - Automate the vROps OVA DeploymentFor those that haven’t heard, vCenter Operations (known better as vC Ops) has been not only updated but renamed. It’s new name is vRealize Operations (or, probably, vR Ops) and it is officially version 6.Dec 19, 2014
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PowerCLI - Gathering VMHost NIC Driver & Firmware InfoThere’s nothing worse than having inconsistencies in a VMware cluster. This includes patch level, driver level and definitely firmware levels. In this particular case, the focus is on the physical network adapters.Nov 3, 2014
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PowerCLI - Process of Adding Notes to VMsDocumentation is a good thing. No matter how big or small. One of the easiest methods of documentation is to use the built in annotation section for “Notes”.
What I’ve come up with is a fairly basic script to go through all the VM objects that do not contain notes and allow the user to insert notes on a line by line basis.Sep 9, 2014
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PowerShell - Add File Share Permissions to Existing ShareFound myself in the position of having to add some permissions to an existing file share… Unfortunately none of these systems were 2012R2, whom can take advantage of the SMBShare cmdlets, so this ended up being a bigger task than I would’ve thought.Aug 15, 2014
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PowerCLI - Removing and Re-creating Unknown and/or Orphaned VMsRan into an issue lately where I found a host had lost its storage. For whatever reason HA didn’t kick in to bring all the VMs back to life and there was a need to recreate ~75 VMs whom were in an unknown and/or orphaned state.Jul 14, 2014
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