Virtually Jason

Hey everyone - one of my customers was doing some maintenance on the FC switches recently and wanted an easy way to ensure that all of their ESXi hosts had 4 Active links to their datastores before bringing a switch down for maintenance.  Sure, we can click through the GUI and manually examine each host... or we can automat it! So, I wrote a script to report the status of all paths to a given datastore (or datastores via wildcard matching) for all hosts that are connected to it!  The usage on this guy is pretty straight-forward: .\report-datastorePaths.ps1 -datastoreName <name of datastore to examine; multiple datastores may be specified with wildcards> -alertThreshold <if the number of active paths is less than this number, alert the user> That -alertTreshold parameter (which defaults to 4) is used to cause the script to write to the host if it ever finds a host with fewer than that number Active links.  So, if it doesn't spit out any red text, you're p...

 Hey guys - just a quick note today.  I was configuring a second Syslog server for a customer's ESXi via the Syslog.global.logHost advanced setting, but was getting a generic "Internal Error" error whenever I tried to save my configuration.  Some quick googling made it look like this might be related to the scratch directory configuration having a problem or possibly the Syslog.global.logDir setting pointing at a folder that didn't exist, but in this case it was much simpler. When setting up multiple logHosts, the example shows "udp://hostName:514, hostName2, ssl://hostName3:1514" but that's not actually the correct syntax to use.  It should be "udp://hostName:514,hostName2,ssl://hostName3:1514" to get it working.  Note that the servers are separated only by commas, instead of by a comma and a space.