How to throttle vSAN resync traffic in vSphere 7.0.

What to do when a PowerCLI upgrade to 12.6 fails with a certificate issuer error.

If you’re auditing your vSphere hardware inventory here’s a PowerShell/ PowerCLI snippet to show the Vendor, Model, and Serial Number of all the ESXi hosts in your environment.

If you’re having to audit or troubleshoot your ESXi host patching and need a full list of connections from LLDP then this PowerCLI can help.

By joining PowerCLI to interrogate a VMware vSphere environment and the Webhook API to post Microsoft Teams messages, we can send informational reports on the state of a virtual environment to channels in Teams.

A recent Slack chat reminded me that PowerShell’s Get-Command cmdlet is a good way of finding what commands to use when you encounter a new problem. However it goes beyond typing Get-Command and just getting a huge list back- my laptop just gave me 7659 commands to choose from – as this can be unusable. Here’s some …

A quick PowerCLI snippet for examining what VM Hardware versions exist in your virtual environment:

A recording of my VMworld 2018 talk, thanks to the vBrownbag team.

In one month from now I’ll be speaking at VMworld in Barcelona with a concise session on coding skills for the IT operations team. To quote the abstract for the session:

I believe every IT Ops person, SysAdmin, and vSphere administrator should do some coding