Excellent powershell to set the correct time on a number of hosts… I expanded the code to: Get-Cluster -Name “Cluster” | Get-VMHost | Where-Object { $t = Get-Date$dst = $_ | %{ Get-View $_.ExtensionData.ConfigManager.DateTimeSystem }$dst.UpdateDateTime((Get-Date($t.ToUniversalTime()) -format u))} via Setting time on ESXi hosts through PowerCLI | Geaux Virtual.
Good code snippets for vmware host maintenance mode. vSphere ESXi Maintenance Mode with PowerCLI | Virtual Drive.
Hand tip on how to remove pNics from a vSwitch $nic = @ via PowerCLI: Remove all vmnics from a vSwitch — DAMIAN KARLSON.
Handy step by step guide – was looking in case I needed it. Luckily account auto unlocks after 15 mins. 🙂 Virtual Consultant for you Datacenter: Unlocking and resetting vCenter SSO admin account.
For a excellent guide to IP ports used. VMware KB: Network port diagram for vSphere 5.x.
A great knowledge base article outlining vmware products and there build number to version numbers. VMware KB: Correlating vCenter Server and ESXi/ESX host build numbers to update levels.
VMware KB: Unmounting a LUN or Detaching a Datastore/Storage Device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts.
New Tool to automate the installation of custom certificates – another one for me to test on Monday! 🙂 This will be very handy with my previous post. Introducing the vCenter Certificate Automation Tool 1.0 | VMware Support Insider – VMware Blogs.
Excellent blog/guide on to automate the certificates needed for vSphere 5.1 Note not tried myself yet – that Mondays Job! Will update post on my findings….. Powershell – Generate Microsoft CA signed SSL certificates with vSphere 5.1 « DefinIT. Update (12/03/2013): Now used this script. Works very well. Unfortunately the vmware tool to automate the … Read more