Check ESXi installation date using Powershell
Have you ever found yourself wondering when a certain ESXi server was installed? In this case VMware GSS has your back. Check out KB 2144905…
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Async methods in vSphere Web Services API
Today I had an experience that was not very different than some of the 'I was today years old' memes which are floating on the…
Virtual Machine BootTime property is not being populated
Ever so often you come around something that you haven't seen before. Well this issue is one of those things. In our environments we use…
Resolving the mysterious and unknown issues with the PowerCLI Tag cmdlets!
Introduction to vSphere Tags VMware vSphere Tags is a way to attach metadata to VMware vCenter inventory objects to make it easier to find and…
Ancient VMware View Scripted Reporting
A while ago I was working on a very very old VMware View environment. Yes, you’ve read this correctly, a VMware View environment. This is…
Round up virtual hard disk size
Quick post of something I ran into this week. When creating new VMs it makes sense to create disks that have a certain size in…
Clearing ESXi System Event Log (SEL) via PowerCLI
We recently noticed some hosts in our environment that show an alert triggered by 'Status of other host hardware objects'. Upon further investigation it turned…
Slow boot times ESXi with (p/v)RDM’s easy fix
Recently we have been having (extremely) slow boot times for a couple of hosts that we’ve been using for a new customer. We actually didn’t…
PowerCLI: Function to import VMX files from a datastore
Recently we've had to revert to migrating a customer through cloning virtual machines to a lun on a 'migration storage box' after which we had…
PowerCLI function to increase VM storage capacity
We recently had a customer that we onboarded for a managed service. Part of this service is that we monitor the OS and it turned…