Who likes to configure VMKs on hosts? A couple is totally fine, a few hundreds is not fun! Unless… …We use powercli!! Code Snippet below: $esx=”my-esx-hostname-” $switchname=”mySwitchName” $net=”192.168.45.” 1..100 |… Read more »
The last couple years Microsoft is shifting to open source and with that our beloved powershell has become Opensource too. This allows us to run PowerCLI on both MAC and… Read more »
I’m a big advocate of DVS, but licensing is not always available, so for those who use Standard Switches, here’s an error free way of creating Portgroups in all your… Read more »
ahhh the old days when the latest and greatest was E1000! Honestly it was so long ago that I cannot remember! That said, some folks like to use it due… Read more »
Starting and stopping VMs is not that difficult, so why script it? Well… don’t want to be clicking on a bunch of VMs trying to skip the ones that should… Read more »
As promised, simple way to enable/disable SSH on the fly! Start: Get-VMHost | Foreach {Start-VMHostService -HostService ($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where { $_.Key -eq “TSM-SSH”} )} Stop: Get-VMHost | Foreach… Read more »
Some of us enjoy the thrills of having SSH enabled in our hosts but dislike the warning each host throws at us. Here’s how to disable it, use at your… Read more »
NTP, such an important and sometimes forgotten service. Other services rely on it heavily, eg. SSO, yet it can be quite cumbersome to configure if you do it host by… Read more »
Single line on how to get all your hosts and ip’s. While very simple it’s been very handy to me, hope it helps you too! Get-VMHost | Sort Name |… Read more »
Mistakes do happen and sometimes the network team gets a bit grumpy about VMs doing nasty things, acting like DHCP servers or generating high network loads tend to be on… Read more »