This post will serve as the 10,000 ft overview of my environment and what it all consists of. I plan to follow up this post with a series of smaller posts breaking down my Home Lab into the following sections: (as I update these blog posts, links will appear and become active) Home Lab Servers…
vCheck is a PowerShell HTML framework script that started with one guy, but is now a community driven and from what I have seen, it’s pretty neat. vCheck can be configured to just run once, or as a scheduled task on a Windows box. It also offers the option of sending the report via email.…
Powershell & PowerCLI Prep #Set Execution Policy Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned #Ignore SSL Certificates warnings Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -WarningAction SilentlyContinue #Connecting to server & save creds: Connect-VIServer vCenter.DOMAIN.com -User DOMAIN\Administrator -Password -SaveCredentials #Location to open up PowerCLI normally: . “C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1” CMDLET function Load-PowerCLI { Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Add-PSSnapin VMware.VumAutomation -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue Add-PSSnapin VMware.DeployAutomation…
Set a Static IP on your ESXi Host V5.5 Assigning a static IP to your ESXi host is extremely easy to do, and is highly recommended as you will always want your host to have the same IP. Notes: If your network is set up without DHCP, then you will have to do this from…
The Installation and Basic Configuration of VMware ESXi 5.5.0 on Dell C2100 FS12-TY Server Specs: Dell PowerEdge C2100 FS12-TY 2 x 2.13GHz Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5506 6 x 4GB RAM – Total 24GB’s of RAM RAID Controller – SAS 6iR 4 x 250GB WD RE 4 HDD’s I have already set up my RAID Array as…