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Alternative to VDS Health Check

Posted Michael Ryom2 CommentsPosted in Script

If you have a large environment or a lot of VLANs you know that running with VDS Health check on, is not an option. This is due to the way VDS Health check works. It will sent out one packet per uplink per VLAN. Meaning if you have two uplinks and 20 VLAN, it will send out a total of 40 packets for that one host. Which is not that bad, but now scale it up to the kind of people which usually have and need the distributed switch and the number of VLANs is likely to be triple digit […]

Delete claimrules via PowerCLI

Posted Michael RyomLeave a commentPosted in ESXi, Script

Had to mask storage in an older environment. As soon as that was done and storage were removed, then the clean up starts. I could have done all this by hand, but where is the fun in that. Instead I created this little script below which removes all claimrules with a rule number greater than 101 and lower than 65535. Of course this should go without saying. You need to know what you are doing and that there is no claimrules between 101-65535 that is crucial to your environment. Deleting claimrules like this shouldn’t be taking lightly. Well, I had […]