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how to get the correct Virtual Disk for a VMware vm

8. March 201720. October 2020 Burkard JoshGeneral, VMware, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 2016
Some times I have the problem, I need to resize or delete a VMware virtual disk, but I only know the guest’s drive letter. In vm’s where t...

add domain groups to vSphere ESXi 5 with PowerCLI

28. June 201312. September 2013 Burkard JoshVMwareTagged VMware
With PowerCLI, you can add AD authentication to a single managed ESXi Host. For this you need to add your ESXi-Host to the AD (line 9) and then add pe...

List VMTools Status with vCheck

25. February 201328. June 2013 Burkard JoshVMwareTagged PowerShell, VMware
i like vCheck to daily report my virtual environment status. But a lot of our guest systems are not in my responsibility, so the VM Tools are not upto...

Installing HP ESXi Offline Bundle for VMware ESXi 5.0

16. February 201216. February 2012 Burkard JoshVMwareTagged ESXi, VMware
The steps to install the offline bundle for VMware ESXi 5.0 has changed from VMware ESXi 4.X. The vihostupdate command used in ESXi 4.X does not work ...

discover informations about all virtual machines to Excel

29. December 201129. December 2011 Burkard JoshVMwareTagged PowerShell, VMware
I had the task to list all existing virtual machines in our vSphere vCenter to an Excel-List. Cause i have alot of VM’s and they change often, i...

Clone your Active Directory in 18 minutes using VMware

10. October 201110. October 2011 Burkard JoshActive Directory, VMwareTagged Active Directory, VMware
Anyone out there who runs a successful Microsoft Windows Active Directory, knows that it is pre-eminently useful to have a test environment that very ...

Shutdown full VMware datacenter on UPS failure

11. July 201113. August 2011 Burkard JoshVMwareTagged PowerShell, VMware
To shutdown a VMware datacenter on UPS failure i found a PowerShell script, which i modified: The script will shutdown the desired VMware datacenter, ...

ESXi 4.x: change the blocksize for a partition

11. May 20111. June 2011 Burkard JoshVMwareTagged ESXi, VMware
The ESXi 4.x installer utilizes the default blocksize of 1MB when creating VMFS volumes, allowing for storage of files 256GB and under. This default V...

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