The virtual machine floppy drive is one of those things that I'd rate as somewhere in the "stupid default" configuration bucket. In my virtualization practice, I very rarely use it, and so I add it as ...

I will admit first of all that I am no scripter. But I find that when I go about the task of doing repetitive tasks, PowerCLI (vSphere's PowerShell extension) is the way to go. I usually also ...

I have a PowerCLI script that uses 'Get-EsxCli' to query each of my ESXi hosts for the version of a particular plugin, i.e.: ...