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  • Quick Tips: Updating ESXi Host (Online Method)

    Derek Bannard April 3, 2018     Comment Closed     Quick Tips, VMware

    Hello and welcome to Quick Tips. This quick tip is designed to walk a novice, step by step, through the process of updating an ESXi host. If you’re not a novice, this will be a refresher.
    Mostly, I wanted to write it down somewhere so I wouldn’t forget in my old age. Sorry folks, no pictures on this one. Maybe…

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  • VMware: Matching Attached vDisk UUID to Guest Windows HDD

    Derek Bannard January 3, 2018     Comment Closed     Powershell, VMware

    Ever wanted to remove an unused hard drive from a VM without removing the wrong one?
    Sometimes VMs will have multiple vDisks with the same size, making it difficult to determine which one is the drive in Windows you wanted to remove.   I present to you… a script. Done groaning yet?  Well good! There are many commands, snippets and…

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  • VMware: Set Perennial Reservations to True on RDM Luns in a cluster (The Quick Way)

    Derek Bannard January 3, 2018     Comment Closed     Powershell, VMware

    Well, the time has come to revist some code.  New year, I’ve learned some more about coding, and need to stretch the fingers a little. The previous article detailed how to do this, and sooo much more. This article will be a bit more compact, use “off the shelf” components and is compatiable with VMware 5 – 6.5.  You will…

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  • VMware ESXi 6.5 RDM Initialization

    Kristoph Minchau June 23, 2017     Comment Closed     Powershell, VMware

    1 – Get Required PowerShell Modules Install VMWare PowerCLI: This is VMWare’s PowerCLI PowerShell module. Used to interact with vCenter.
    PowerShell
    Find-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser
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    Find-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI
    Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser
      Install Set-VMWareRDM This is a custom module to allow us to easily configure RDM devices and other volume settings.  …

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