HP DL380p Gen8 VMware ESXi Build Process

Recently I ran across an issue installing ESXi on an HP DL380p Gen8.  The VMware ESXi ISO image does not have the latest NIC and RAID Controller drivers to allow for install.  The HP packaged VMware ESXi ISO has the proper drivers, but it is an older ESXi build.  When you patch the HP VMware… Read More

Use PowerCLI to find all VMs with a mounted ISO file as a CD/DVD drive

I was doing some maintenance and wanted to clean up some old NFS mounts we had on our ESXi server. Here’s a one-liner you can slap in PowerCLI once you are auth’d to vCenter. It will essentially list all VMs that have an ISO mounted. Pretty easy! I was then able to umount the CD/DVD… Read More