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Update the DNS Suffix on your cluster of ESX hosts using PowerCLI
Using PowerCLI, you can quickly update the DNS Suffix on the hosts in your cluster using this short one-liner. get-cluster “LabManager” | get-vmhost | get-vmhostnetwork | set-vmhostnetwork -searchdomain “one.lab.org”, “two.lab.org”
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VMworld 2012 Day 2 Observations!
There are pro’s and con’s of going to an event of this magnitude, some of which is to be expected, some of which is not. That being said, here are my VMworld 2012 Day 2 Observations. Food – They seem to have heard the griping over at socialcast.com where every single person seems to agree […]
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List the vMotion IP Address and Subnet mask for each vSphere ESX host using PowerCLI
I ran into a couple misconfigurations, so I wrote a quick online to audit all of my host configurations without having to use the dreaded host profiles get-vmhost | % {(get-view $_.id).config.vmotion.ipconfig} | select ipaddress, subnetmask
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List the Path and Path State for every vSphere Datastore using PowerCLI
List the Path and Path State for every vSphere Datastore and then output to CSV using PowerCLI $initalTime = Get-Date $filepath = “C:\tmp” $filename = “LunPathState” $date = Get-Date ($initalTime) -uformat %Y%m%d $time = Get-Date ($initalTime) -uformat %H%M Write-Host “$(Get-Date ($initalTime) -uformat %H:%M:%S) – Starting” $AllHosts = Get-VMHost | Sort Name $reportLunPathState = @() Write-Host […]
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