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Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work provisioning and decommissioning LUNs on some Fibre Channel arrays. As you all know, this process can be somewhat tedious when provisioning a new LUN on vSphere or removing said LUN. In the past, I would always use this PowerCLI command Get-VMhost -Cluster "Cluster1" | Get-VMHostStorage -Refresh This would first get all the ESXi hosts in the cluster “Cluster1” and then launch the refresh cmdlet on each host. The problem with this is that it can take a really long time for the command to complete because the refresh is executed host by host. Before starting the next refresh, the command waits for the previous one to finish. While this is fine for smaller environments, the time really does add up when you have a decent sized cluster. ...

This will be another short one, but I figured someone else will have run into this. While I was doing a rework for a Veeam implementation, I noticed on several jobs that there were exclusions set inside the jobs. I wanted a list of all jobs with their respective exclusions, time for Powershell! The script starts by getting a list of all Veeam jobs. Next, it will go through all jobs and look for objects that have the type “Exclude” set. What follows is a bit of code to match the job name to the different exclusions and dump everything into a CSV. I struggled a bit with getting the contents of the array listed properly in the CSV, I kept getting the array listed as “System Object[]”. Turns out I just needed to put the $VMExclusions variable between quotes. ...

A couple of our web servers were running into some issues with disk space. Turns out the logs weren’t being cleaned up properly. In order to remediate this, I wrote a function that can be reused anywhere. The function accepts 3 parameters: FilePath: The directory where you want to remove the logs from CutOff; Specifies the age (in days) that a file must have before being deleted. LogPath; This parameter specifies the directory where you want the CSV log file. If this is left open, no CSV will be saved. Example As an example, I’m going to remove all files, older than 30 days, from the folder “C:\temp\W3SVC2030036971\W3SVC2030036971". I want a CSV log to be written in the “C:\temp” folder. ...