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Blog posts May 2020

PowerCLI one-liner Reporting, Assigning, Changing and Removing licenses on ESXi

I was looking for instant one-liner PowerCLI script to get licensing report of ESXi servers and also wanted one-liner commands to assign / remove licenses on ESXi servers, Below scripts help to do the tasks.

#Connect ESXi Server
$vmHost = Get-VMHost -Name ironman.vcloud-lab.com

#Assign / …

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Install and Configure VMware UMDS on Linux

VMWare UMDS (VMware Update Manager Download Services) is feature and extra add on software included in VCSA ISO file, It helps downloading update metadata, patches, security fixes and latest drivers binaries from online VMware/Vendor hostupdate Repositories. It helps in way to make your VMware Updat…

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VMware UMDS curl_easy_perform() failed: cURL Error: SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK, SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate

After configuring VMWware UMDS (VMware Update Manager download service) in my environment, which downloads patches/update from online VMware repositories, I tried downloading patches/updates.but I was receiving below errors for multiple urls. (There are default 4 online VMware repositories from wher…

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Patching the vCenter Server Appliance VCSA

VMware regularly releases security patches/fixes for its products, here I am patching vCenter server appliance (vcsa portal). Upgrade patches are downloaded from url https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search (VMware Patch download center). 

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I have downloaded vCenter server patch ISO f…

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Assign vSAN licenses in vSphere client

After writing Administrating licenses in vSphere client I missed to mention another way to assign licences to vSAN cluster. Whenever you build you a new cluster and if don't enable vSAN services, that cluster generally is not listed under licenses Assets, Unless you enable vSAN service on cluster. (…

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Powercli Get vCenter assigned licenses report

This is a second part of earlier written article Powercli Get vCenter licenses information, that script will help to collect all the added VMware licenses but doesn't show which system is utilizing the license. Here in this script it helps you to get report of assigned licences information. Using …

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PowerShell Convert MAC address to Link-Local IPv6 address

I received one query on one of the chat group I am part of asking if there is a way to convert MAC physical address to Link-Local IPV6 address using PowerShell, Infact I had worked on the same kind project of migrating from IPv4 to IPv6 and already written it long bank. Lets see what is the formula …

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Administrating licenses in vSphere client

Recently I deployed VMware vSphere 7, and after logging to vSphere Client the first message was popped up on the top middle screen is There are expired or expiring licenses in your inventory. [MANAGE YOUR LICENSES]. As I had licenses to for testing I decided to assign the same to vCenter and ESXi se…

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Powercli Get vCenter licenses information

Recently I was testing vCenter and Esxi 7 - vSphere suite for my new project, I periodically ask my subordinate team to review and collect the licenses information to know and forecast licensing needs. To use this script first I fill and run information accordingly. (Temporarily remove/unload Hyper-…

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Install and Configure Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS)

In this article I will be configuring ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services). One of the requirement for ADFS configuration is requirement of PFX SSL certificate (It includes private key), To proceed I will create SSL certificate first. I have below few articles written earlier to understand CA…

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