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Check ntp status and time on your ESX servers
30 sep 2009 21:10

Inspired by dkfbp in the VMware Community forums, i made this simple script that checks the date/time and ntpd service status of your ESX servers. Its a Powershell/vSphere PowerCLI script that basically serves as a wrapper for plink.exe which then executes commands to a list of provided ESX servers to check. You can download plink from http://www.chiark.greenend... Read More...

by Rasmus Sjørslev | with no comments

Filed under: VMware, Scripts, vsphere, powershell

How-to: Configure DELL servers for use with vSphere DPM
5 sep 2009 23:47

One of the neat little feature upgrades in ESX 4 compared to 3.x is that Distributed Power Management (DPM) is now officially supported. In 3.5 it was experimental and the only way to power on your hosts was using WOL. In ESX 4 features like IPMI and iLO are supported, which makes for a more reliable usage. Enabling IPMI can either be done using the web-interface... Read More...

by Rasmus Sjørslev | with no comments

Filed under: drac, dell, vsphere, ipmi, power management, dpm