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Unattended upgrade of HP management agents

After upgrading to ESX 3.5 to update3, I found out that the HP management agents needed to be upgraded to version 8.1.1, since this version supports ESX3.5 update3. So I downloaded the new agents and decided to install the latest HBAAPI libraries from Qlogic too. These HBA libraries are not part of the HP agents [...]

Bulk change your ESX root password

Have you ever been facing your security department demanding you to change your ESX root password?
Well I did. At the current site there’s a strict security policy where passwords must change every 2 months. Offcourse as a good administrator I changed the ESX root account …. ehm …. well …. ehm …. never.
Because we have over [...]

New version of the Powershell Healthcheck script released

Ivo Beerens published a new version of his Powershell Healthcheck script.
Features:
- VMware ESX server Hardware and version         
- VMware vCenter version    
- Cluster information (Updated)    
- VMware statistics (New)
- Active Snapshots    
- CDROMs connected to VMs   
- Floppy drives connected to VMs  
- Datastores Information such as free space
- RDM information  (New)
- VM information such as VMware tools version,  [...]