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It’s been a year since I blogged about my script to perform an unattended upgrade of the HP management agents 8.1.1 on ESX 3.5 U3. After HP upgraded their management agents to version 8.2.0 some things changed. The installation procedure is now a 2 step process. First there’s a PreInstall_Setup.sh script which modifies some startup [...]

Idera released PowerShell Plus™ 3.1
PowerShell Plus is a powerful interactive development environment for Windows PowerShell designed to help administrators and developers quickly learn and master the PowerShell scripting language while dramatically increasing the productivity of both novice and expert users.
PowerShell Plus™ v3.1 includes these new features:

Community Script Library Integration – Increases script developer productivity by [...]

Last week VMware released PowerCLI 4.0 Update1. According to the PowerCLI blog this new version contains over 60 new cmdlets as well as greatly improved performance.
One great thing is that they put the cmdlet reference online. I always like references online, because they are always at your disposal. When I ‘m working on my scripts, [...]

I’ve always been using UDA1.4 for my ESX deployments up until ESX3.5. Now when it comes to vSphere the UDA1.4 isn’t a good fit anymore, because it doesn’t support ESX4. Luckily Carl Thijssen, the mastermind behind the UDA, released a 2.0 beta version  a couple of months ago, which, with a little help from Mike [...]

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 [...]

A lot of customers I worked with use Advanced Hostmonitor from KS-Soft to monitor their Windows environment. So is the customer I  am currently working at. Advanced Hostmonitor is a simple and cheap monitoring solution for Windows, but also supports other UNIX/Linux operating systems using Remote Monitoring Agents (RMA).
My current >customer has 50+ ESX servers [...]

Veeam revealed it’s free holiday gift today. It’s the new version of Veeam Monitor.
The Veeam Monitor Free Edition is an easy-to-use VMware monitoring solution designed to meet the day-to-day needs of VMware administrators who need real-time performance monitoring and alerting. Built from the ground up specifically for the virtual world, Veeam Monitor provides a bird’s-eye [...]