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PowerCLI - Rescan HBAs for a Cluster on a Host by Host Basis After having some bad luck with rescanning HBAs for entire clusters or datacenters all at the same time (Cliff’s Notes: the LUNs ended up looking like array based snapshots and therefore unusable), it was decided that any rescans should be done on an individual host basis. May 23, 2013 - 1 min read
PowerCLI - Analyze a Cluster to Move VMs to a Resource Pool After someone deployed a bunch of VMs, we let them know about the Resource Pool they were supposed to be deployed to. Oops. To correct this, and to avoid a couple hours of dragging and dropping VMs into a resource pool, I was able to create a script that detects if a VM is outside of a Resource Pool and then move it to the specified Resource Pool. May 22, 2013 - 1 min read
Playing with ESXi and Synology in the home lab... So I finally bit the bullet and bought a NAS for my home lab. Ended up with a Synology DS411 due to some good timing from a NewEgg sale. I went with Synology for two reasons: May 25, 2012 - 2 min read
Generating RSA Key & CSR for use with VMware Solutions... Ever received a Security Warning while logging into either you ESX/i host and/or vCenter? That’s due to the SSL certificate being untrusted with your machine. You can always click the “Ignore” button or check the “Install this certificate…” box and then “Ignore” and move on, however you can improve the security by replacing the certificates with certificates signed by a commercial certificate authority (CA). Nov 29, 2011 - 2 min read
PowerCLI - Configuring Multipathing iSCSI Networks I’ve been playing in the development hosts quite a bit lately which occasionally leave me having to reset the system back to defaults and it’s no fun to go back through and setup Multipathing for 4 connections everytime. Aug 23, 2011 - 4 min read
Terraform Cloud Introduces Workspace Tags Managing infrastructure as code at scale can be a challenge to many organizations. While HashiCorp Terraform Cloud provides organizations with a fast and easy way to adopt Terraform, managing workspaces can bring about obstacles requiring additional planning and visibility. Jan 1, 0001 - 3 min read