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VxRail – Lookup Service Tag/Serial Number

See also related Post: https://davidring.ie/2019/09/18/vxrail-lookup-model-psnt/ In addition to the physical tag at the front of the VxRail appliance you may also leverage PowerCLI, ESXi console or vCenter GUI to pull the ST/SN of each VxRail appliance. PowerCLI Get-Hosts -Server VxRailManager_IP -Username administrator@vsphere.local -Password PW |ft sn, hostname ESXi Console Per individual host: /opt/vxrail/tools/ipmitool fru print 17 vCenter UI With the […]

By David Ring Posted on October 15, 2021

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Cisco UCS – Determining ESXi FNIC&ENIC via PowerCLI

The following script allows the user to retrieve a listing of Network (ENIC) & Storage (FNIC) firmware drivers installed on Cisco UCS blades at a per vSphere cluster level. You may download the ‘Cisco_FNIC_ENIC.ps1‘ script here: […]

By David Ring Posted on July 1, 2016

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VMware PowerCLI – Enable/Disable SSH Per vSphere Cluster

The following script allows the user to Enable/Disable SSH at a per vSphere cluster level. You may download the ‘SSH.ps1‘ script here: SSH.ps1 (Remove the .doc extension). The script will begin by prompting you to […]

By David Ring Posted on April 14, 2016

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EMC VMAX3 – Adding Gatekeeper RDM Volumes To VMware MGMT VM

This post outlines how to create the VMAX Masking view for Gatekeeper RDM volumes and the Script to Automate Adding RDM Disk’s to a VMware MGMT VM. First some notes on Gatekeeper volumes: SE(CLI) and Unisphere(GUI) are the main tools used to manage a VMAX Array, Gatekeeper volumes are required in order to carry these commands from both CLI&GUI and […]

By David Ring Posted on July 6, 2015

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VMware PowerCLI – MS Windows Guest VM ‘IP&DNS’ Modification

The following script allows the user to modify an MS Windows Guest VM IP and DNS configuration. You may download the ‘IP&DNS_Modification.ps1‘ script HERE (Remove the .doc extension). Begin by […]

By David Ring Posted on April 21, 2015

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VMware PowerCLI – Adding RDM Disk’s

See also: VMware PowerCLI – Adding VMFS Datastore’s After creating the required LUN’s on your storage array and mapped the LUN’s to your ESXi hosts then you may use PowerCLI […]

By David Ring Posted on October 10, 2014

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EMC XtremIO – Setting Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding On vSphere 5.5 & 6.0 (PowerCLI)

PowerCLI Download Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding (DSNRO) – Determines the maximum number of active storage commands (I/Os) allowed at any given time at the VMkernel. The default value is 32 and the maximum value is 256. For XtremIO storage with VMware vSphere it is recommended to set the DSNRO parameter to the maximum value of 256. When using vSphere 5.5 the Disk.SchedNumReqOutstanding parameter […]

By David Ring Posted on September 8, 2014

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VMware PowerCLI – Adding VMFS Datastore’s

Thank you Cliff, Steve and Luc for helping me out with this task. After you have created the required LUN’s on your storage array and mapped the LUN’s to your ESXi hosts, at this stage you may use PowerCLI to add these new LUNs as VMFS datastore’s. 1. Connect to vCenter: Connect-VIServer -Server “vcenter_IP” -User UserName -Password Password If you […]

By David Ring Posted on August 21, 2014