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Scripting administrative tasks

• PowersHell – The Uber/Master vSwitch

  Some customers I know like to create on each ESX host what they call the uber-vSwitch or the Master-vSwitch Continue Reading

• PowersHell - (re)setting the root account password

  Explains how to reset the root account password. Continue Reading

• PowersHell: Enabling DPM Settings (IPMI/iLO/BMC)

  In vSphere4 there’s a new method enabling the “Distributed Power Management” options for a DPM enabled cluster. Continue Reading

• Wanted: Command-line chops for vSphere ESXi

  Commands vary between ESX 3.x and vSphere, so VMware administrators need some command-line chops. These vSphere ESXi commands can help configure your environment consistently. Continue Reading

• What I learned yesterday: DvSData Folder,View all IPs, Sysprep & Guest Customization

  Explains how to use DvSData Folder, View all IPs, and Sysprep & Guest customization. Continue Reading

• What I learned last week

  A quick rundown of things that were discovered in the last week, including RDMs and the 2TB Limit and some nice bits of PowerShell.Continue Reading

• Power options for graceful VMware virtual machine power-offs

  If you configure related settings properly, you can avoid the damaged data associated with harsh virtual machine power-off, reset and suspend controls.Continue Reading

• PowerShell example starter scripts for VMware ESX

  You can use these five PowerShell starter scripting examples as a guide for scripting VMware ESX administrative tasks, such as powering on a virtual machine.Continue Reading

• Creating a VMware vSphere guest OS: What's new

  Since VMware vSphere offers increased functionality over ESX 3.5, there are some small but significant changes to the guest OS installation process.Continue Reading

• PowerShell scripting for VMware ESX: Using Quest's PowerGUI PowerPack script editor

  The PowerGUI PowerPack presents PowerShell code in a more digestible manner than traditional methods and enables you to write original PowerShell scripts for a VMware ESX environment.Continue Reading

• A deep dive into scripting VMware ESX host creation

  Scripting VMware ESX host creation can prevent networking issues and VMotion failures. Learn how the various Linux shell scripts work together to create VMware ESX hosts in the second part of our tip series.Continue Reading

• Using Linux shell scripts to automatically create VMware ESX 3.5 hosts

  If your clustered VMware ESX hosts aren't configured the same way, VMotion can fail. But by scripting the creation of ESX hosts, you can prevent mismatched network configurations and VMotion failures.Continue Reading

• Why you should delete outdated vCenter Server data

  With SQL commands, you can delete superfluous vCenter Server database information and save disk space and boost system performance. But you need to monitor database table size.Continue Reading

• PowerShell scripting with VMware ESX tutorial: Installing and using the PowerShell tool

  Recent VMware VI Toolkit releases include PowerShell scripting functionality, which can ease VMware management tasks. In this tutorial, learn how to install PowerShell and the VI Toolkit.Continue Reading

• Aligning disk partitions to boost virtual machine performance

  When it comes to performance tuning for virtual machines, you need to consider system volume partition alignment. This step-by-step guide indicates how to align partitions.Continue Reading