Use PowerCLI to Get Log File When Tools are Broken

Use PowerCLI to Get Log File When Tools are Broken

Over the past weekend we had a massive push of VMware Tools and VM hardware updates.  For the most part this push was smooth except for 2 machines.  Of course these 2 machines are high priority development machines and rebuild just won’t work.

Trying to get a log file off a machine that doesn’t allow for the drivers to  install becomes when trying to research the issue. … Continue reading

PowerShell to Configure iSCSI and MPIO

At work we have started to make a push to get as many servers off of RDM (Raw Device Mapping) drives in the virtual environment as we can. We use the RDM drives with MSCS (Microsoft Server Cluster Service) with SQL, but we do have a few application failover cluster as well. With this change we have an influx of iSCSI (Internet Small Computer Systems Interface) drive configurations along with  MPIO (Multipath I/O) configured.  … Continue reading