PowerShell to Rename Datastores

At work we recently had a health check performed on our virtual environment. When the results came back, and I noticed a trend with our legacy VM hosts. Particularly where we didn’t follow the same standards as we did on the newer hosts. The issue I’ll be talking about, is renaming the local datastores. So now is the time to apply the same standards across the entire environment.… Continue reading

PowerCLI to Update VMHost Name

What’s your (host)name?

While digging through Log Insight on a problem, I found a new one.  A large majority of VMhosts were not configured with a proper hostname.  This was also backup by the vCheck report that gets generated weekly.  The hosts were configured with ‘localhost’ as the hostname, which makes this a huge pain when trying to follow the logs.… Continue reading