How to Retrieve vSAN License Key from an ESXi Cluster using PowerCLI
vSAN is a software-defined storage solution from VMware that is integrated with the vSphere platform. To use vSAN, you need to have a valid license key assigned to your ESXi…
Create vMotion TCP/IP stack when making vMotion VMKernel interface with PowerCli
This series of commands will set the default gateway on the vMotion kernel to use dedicated Default Gateway for layer 3 vMotion. After you connect to the target VCSA (vCenter)…
Uninstall VIBs on ESXi via PowerCLI
I ran across a need to have to uninstall a VIB from ESXI once installed. I Didnt want to login to each ESXi via SSH to preform the ESXCLI command…
vmkping via PowerCLI/ESXCLi
When troubleshooting an ESXi host one of the most common problems is testing connectivity. A tool that used on the console or ssh session of the ESXi host is vmkping.…
Creating vSAN cluster with over 32 hosts
So I was building out a 44 node vSAN cluster last week and I ran into an issue where 12 of the ESXi hosts had their own network Partition group…