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Script to pull host UUID for VMware PowerCLI

A reader on a previous post asked about pulling host UUIDs, so I wipped together this script. Usage is like this: Get-VMHostUUID.ps1 -vmhosts ("host1","host2","host3")or Get-VMHostUUID.ps1 -vc...

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Script I needed to get info for multiple VMs = Get-VMInfo.ps1

I’ve recently had a ton of requests for information about specific VMs. They want to know how many disks they have, CPU count, how much RAM, and which environment the VM resides in. Instead of...

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Scripting it old school! Bash shell script to apply ESX 3.5 Update 5a

So you’re still using ESX 3.5 and need to patch it manually? Bummer, I know, I’m in that boat right now, or was.  I ran “esxupdate -a query” to find out the latest patch and saw, “ESX Server 3.5.0...

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vMotion fails at 10% with error 0xbad010d on VMware ESXi

I recently had this problem, but forgot to take a screenshot for the blog, sorry guys. I was patching an HA/DRS cluster using VUM and none of the VMs would migrate off one specific host. The error it...

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Site Recovery Manager 5.1 installation fails connecting to database –...

I recently ran into an issue when installing SRM and thought I’d share. I didn’t get a screenshot, but the error was something like this: Failed to Initialize – dbmanager could not initialize vdb...

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VMware Site Recovery Manager & Active Directory – Part 1 – Testing Recovery...

To include Active Directory or not to include Active Directory, that is the question. I’ve been reading a lot around VMware’s Site Recovery Manager and considerations surrounding Active Directory. Most...

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VMware Site Recovery Manager & Active Directory – Part 2 – Domain Controllers...

On May 25th, I published this post covering some scenarios on how to use Site Recovery Manager & Active Directory.  Michael White from VMware responded with some good info.  He had an awesome...

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VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1 Connection & Session Limits

SRM Connection or Session Limit Reached Have you ran into one of these errors before: [exec] AxisFault [exec] faultCode: ServerFaultCode [exec] faultSubcode: [exec] faultString:...

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VMware Virtual SAN Health failed Cluster health test

Here’s the error While building a new environment for my lab, I ran across an interesting thing yesterday. I looked at my cluster’s VSAN health and saw this error: It’s complaining that my hosts don’t...

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How to create NSX CLI users & set up NSX Plugin for vROps

TL-DR: See below for details on these commands Create a local user in the NSX Manager’s CLI, then use the API to grant CLI privileges to that user. Here’s how using a linux machine: ssh...

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