Virtually Jason

One of my customers was doing some work on their storage network and so wanted a list of all ESXi hosts and their WWNs.  This struck me as another excellent scripting opportunity, so I pulled out my old Brocade 1:1 Zoning script and went to work.  I really only needed a one-liner for this situation, so I extracted my needed syntax from that script and quickly put it together.  Here's the (admittedly, ugly) command that I came up with: get-vmhost | select name,@{N="WWNs";E={($_.ExtensionData.config.storagedevice.hostbusadapter.PortWorldWideName | % {("{0:X}"-f$_ -split '(..)' | ? {$_}) -join ':'}) -join ", "}} That'll spit out a list with two columns, ESXi host names in one, and a comma separated list of WWNs in the other.  So, what's that ugly expression in that select statement doing?  Well, it's collecting all of the port WWNs on that ESXi host, then converting each one from decimal into hexadecimal (the "{0:X}&q

I was building a VDI solution for one of my customers that leveraged App Volumes to build RDSH servers, which in turn presented applications via Horizon (is it still fair to call it a VDI solution if there's no desktop OS involved?).  We were managing the user experience persistence via User Environment Manager, so the RDSH servers were stateless and no unique data would ever live on any of them.  It's a really cool solution, but we ran into that classic VDI issue: slow logons. Fortunately, since that is such a classic issue, there's a huge list of things to do to alleviate it.  In this case, since the user's profile lives independently of the server to which they've logged on, we have a really powerful tool available to us: the Mandatory Profile. Windows does a lot of profile customization when a user logs in for the first time, which is great on a persistent desktop!  In a nonpersistent environment (which, for all intents and purposes, any RDSH solution is, be