Alright, hopefully this will be a quick one. Sometimes with powershell it takes strings of characters and even though you don’t want it to, it interprets them as Regular Expression(Regex). When this happens, sometimes there is really just no way to get around powershell’s understanding of what you want…. Read more…
Hey! I wanted to throw this one quickly your way. So in vSphere you can see the general status of a datastore. Which gives you all the information, but only shows one datastore at a time. You can look at all the datastores at one time, but don’t get all Read more…
If your vSphere environment has been around longer than a year or two, it is very possible you still have some datastores that are using VMFS 3.x. This in it of itself isn’t a bad thing, but you are missing out on some of the great features that came out in Read more…
So for some reason or another, within the last day, my powershell profile has vanished. Fortunately for me, I DIDN’T HAVE MY PROFILE BACKED UP. Son of a ^&%(*&^. After some much needed cursing, there was really nothing to do except make a new profile. However I refuse to have Read more…
Lately I have been trying to determine which of my VMs have oversized, or allocated more resources than they need. I know that there are programs, plugins etc which do this, however I wanted to take a shot a just a quick script that could give some direction. Although if Read more…
Recently I have had some issues with HardDisks needing to be consolidated on VMs. I believe this is mostly due to VDR sometimes not handling snapshots the way it should, but I am sure there are other common ways it happens as well. So what do I mean by disks needing to Read more…
So we have all been there, or atleast most everyone who has a SMB customer has been there. They have a shared network drive where all of their employees can access their files. However instead of having the folder permissions setup with groups, making the management immensely easier, the permissions Read more…
As a sysadmin, or more specifically in my current position as a sysadmin, I have always felt that I am constantly needing to manipulate the local admins group on different servers. Maybe a dev broke something in dev/test and they need higher rights temporarily to troubleshoot their code or the Read more…
Alright, so when I run script and am doing just general mayhem in my powershell session I always find a need to know which computers are online before running a script against them. Mainly because it is faster and I get less errors from my script not being able to Read more…
Chapter 24 Additional tips, tricks, and techniques This is just one of those all-around chapters. It talks about profiles, customizing the console, a little bit of regex stufff, and some working with dates. This isn’t one of those big “learning” chapters, however it is a great reference chapter that I Read more…