Need to document your environment? Check out “As Built Report”
Documentation – ew, yuck. I know, I know. However, if you work in an environment with tight change control and validation requirements then this will strike your fancy. For the longest time I’ve combined bits and pieces of various scripts and utilities such as RVTools, Alan Renouf’s vCheck Report, some aspects of vDocumentation (thanks to Ariel Sanchez’s Philly VMUG session on the topic), along with...
vSphere PowerCLI for ESXi host build details
I found these PowerCLI commands especially useful when doing an inventory of ESXi hosts: get-view -ViewType HostSystem -Property Name,Config.Product | select Name,{$_.Config.Product.FullName} get-view -ViewType HostSystem -Property Name,Config.Product | foreach {$_.Name, $_.Config.Product} The first will output something like this: PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> get-view -ViewType HostSystem...
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I am a Sr. Systems Engineer by profession and am interested in all aspects of technology. I am most interested in virtualization, storage, and enterprise hardware. I am also interested in leveraging public and private cloud technologies such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and vRealize Automation/vCloud Director. When not working with technology I enjoy building high performance cars and dabbling with photography. Thanks for checking out my blog! 
