Powershell and PowerCli Enthusiast
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
As it would seem in my environment the default multipathing policy changes with the seasons. We have become very accustom to making these changes based on the newest whitepaper from the storage vendor.
To change the default multipathing policy, you will need to know the name of the Storage Array Type Plugin (SATP) that you need to change the Native Multi-Pathing (NMP) policy for.… Continue reading
Microsoft today (Jan. 4th, 2018) provided a PowerShell module to detect vulnerabilities related to Speculative Execution side-channel attacks. This vulnerability affects Intel, AMD and ARM processors, along with operating systems. You can review the Microsoft security advisory ADV18002 here.
This will install the module to your local machine
*if you are having issues with install the module via the command above you can find the module on my github here.… Continue reading
To enable SSH:
To disable SSH:
– Stuart… Continue reading
To continue with the theme of my last post, I’m going to show how to gather the warranty information for Lenovo Servers. This was a bit tricky as this isn’t an API call, but more of a website parsing.
To be able to perform this warranty lookup, the server information will need to be retrieved, and what a better way than getting it from the VMhosts themselves.… Continue reading
Have you ever need to find the warranty information for your environment’s workstations, and didn’t want to spend hours to get the answers. That is where PowerShell and HP warranty API will come in handy.
Before you can begin you will need to sign up for an account on HP’s website, https://developers.hp.com/… Continue reading
The other night I had a task of upgrading 22 VMs with additional vCPUs and memory. I also had a maintenance window of 60 minutes to get this completed. So I wasn’t going to do this more than once, so I just wrote a simple PowerCli script that would handle this process for me.
So this script starts off identifying the servers that the work is going to be performed on.… Continue reading
Starting with the newest version of PowerCLI, 6.5.1, the method for installation has changed from the typical MSI file to using the PowerShell Gallery.
The first step is to uninstall PowerCLI from your system. To do this use Add/Remove Programs.
Before Installing the New PowerCLI, the old installation needs to be removed. … Continue reading
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
Have you ever found yourself trying to run a command, and found out that you need to have modules loaded that are only installed on a remote server. I know I have many times, and trying to found the right module to download at times is nearly impossible.
So starting with PowerShell version 3.0, there is a now way to import a module from a remote machine. … Continue reading