I will admit first of all that I am no scripter. But I find that when I go about the task of doing repetitive tasks, PowerCLI (vSphere's PowerShell extension) is the way to go. I usually also ...

When choosing to administer VMware-based virtual machines (VMs), administrators have a few decisions to make when prepping their bare-metal hosts and configuring the guest OSes, the storage spaces, ...

One of the under-publicized enhancements VMware Inc. included with the release of vSphere 6.0 is bolstered account management functionality. These enhancements primarily have to do with increased ...

Wanted to see if anyone has any clever solution for monitoring a UPS and gracefully shutting down (in order) ESXi hosted VMs, ESXi hosts, and SAN devices, preferably without needing an x86 host to ...