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Tag: vSphere 5.1

Setting time on ESXi hosts through PowerCLI | Geaux Virtual

4 November, 2013

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.

vSphere ESXi Maintenance Mode with PowerCLI | Virtual Drive

4 November, 2013

Good code snippets for vmware host maintenance mode.

 

vSphere ESXi Maintenance Mode with PowerCLI | Virtual Drive.

PowerCLI: Remove all vmnics from a vSwitch — DAMIAN KARLSON

4 November, 2013

Hand tip on how to remove pNics from a vSwitch

 

 

$nic = @

via PowerCLI: Remove all vmnics from a vSwitch — DAMIAN KARLSON.

URL: Virtual Consultant for you Datacenter: Unlocking and resetting vCenter SSO admin account

13 August, 2013

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.

VMware KB: Network port diagram for vSphere 5.x

10 July, 2013

For a excellent guide to IP ports used.

 

VMware KB: Network port diagram for vSphere 5.x.

VMware KB: Correlating vCenter Server and ESXi/ESX host build numbers to update levels

25 June, 2013

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

29 May, 2013

VMware KB: Unmounting a LUN or Detaching a Datastore/Storage Device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts.

Introducing the vCenter Certificate Automation Tool 1.0 | VMware Support Insider – VMware Blogs

5 April, 2013

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.

Powershell – Generate Microsoft CA signed SSL certificates with vSphere 5.1 « DefinIT

5 April, 2013

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 installation of the certificates only works with the windows version of vcenter not the appliance.