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VMware virtualization
vSphere workingDir configuration parameter erased by Storage vMotion
The workingDir parameter allows you to configure a specific datastore for VM snapshots. We attempted to configure the workingDir parameter […]
PowerCLI proxy problems
oday, I couldn’t connect to my vCenter server using Connect-VIServer. It failed with “Could not connect using the requested protocol.” […]
VMware Automatic HBA rescan
When you add a new datastore, vCenter initiates an automatic rescan on the ESX hosts in the cluster. This can […]
PowerCLI script to export all Vms
Here is a PowerCLI script I hacked together to list out all of our VMs by cluster. # List out […]
How to run PowerCLI scripts from vCenter alarms
I found this link handy when trying to set up custom scripted alerts from my vCenter alarms. http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/09/how-to-run-powercli-scripts-from-vcenter-alarms.html
Unable to delete vSphere datastore
I had a nearly empty datastore in one of my vSphere clusters that I wanted to destroy so I could […]
Quick and dirty PowerCLI script to list out all VM MAC addresses
I needed a quick list of all MAC addresses in our VMWare environment and threw together this PowerCLI script. $LOG_FILE […]