PowerCLI to Match VMDK to Windows Drive Letter

This has always been a thorn in my side. How to match a VMDK to a Windows drive. This was mostly an issue when our DBAs would put multi SQL instances on the same VMs that were configured in as a failover cluster. It would never fail that the the SQL instances would be configured with similar sized drives and need to be extended.… Continue reading

PowerCli to get list of unused RDMs on VM Cluster – Updated

After finishing the last post and starting to use it after limited testing I found that my script wasn’t filtering out the Datastores as expected.  This information was presented to me via our storage team.  So I have went back to the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) to resolved my issues.


This is now how to properly get the unused RDM LUNs from your VM cluster.… Continue reading

PowerCli to get list of unused RDMs on VM Cluster

This page has been updated. Please visit http://notesofascripter.com/?p=23 for the updated script.

Since my last post was about RDMs, lets continue the discusion.  In my work environment we have been consolidating our VMware platform.
So we have been moving VMs with RDMs attached from one cluster to another.  So its been a messy process, and we haven’t had the time to
clean up behind ourselves. … Continue reading