Here is a little memento we forgot to post a while ago, in order to get name and IP of all ESXi servers. There are several ways of getting these data, you can use only vSphere SDK properties: Or you … Continue reading
In order to follow up our previous post about cluster load in PowerCLI, a chat with Alan Renouf convince us to add support for other vCenter objects, the basic idea was to build a universal Get-Load function that will display the load of … Continue reading
Edit 01.04.2013 : A few script modification following a very nice observation by hypervisor (as usual :p) It’s been a while we wanted to make a PowerCLI fancy display for vSphere cluster load, in a kind of way VIClient does for … Continue reading
As we were about to use some new BL465c G7 blades hosting ESXi servers installed with HP custom ISO image (available here, this image is built with needed drivers for G7/Gen8 hardware support, especially for FCoE onboard FlexFabric card), we started to receive some alert mail … Continue reading
As explained in our previous post, vSphere 5.1 GA was released yesterday. So we quickly upgraded our homelab in order to start playing testing new features. The upgrade completed smoothly, a little bit longer than the previous ones, specially because of installation … Continue reading