Interviewed by Dutch VMUG TV

VMworld 2011 LogoAt the end of VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas, Monique Vanmeulebrouk and I were interviewed by Peter van den Bosch for Dutch VMUG TV. The interview was about our experiences at VMworld. Read more of this post

How to use VMware vSphere PowerCLI to find an ESX/ESXi server by MAC address

PowerCLI logoIn “Virtual machine failed to power on” Monique Vanmeulebrouk describes a problem where in one stage she needed to find an ESX server that has a certain MAC address. Of course you can log in to all your ESX servers and issue the “ifconfig | grep -i hw” command as described in the VMware Knowledge base article “Identifying the ESX Service Console MAC address”. But this method takes a lot of time. You can do this much easier with VMware vSphere PowerCLI. Read more of this post