ESX 4.1 (update n) will be the last installable version of ESX to retain the service console. There is no upgrade path for ESX to ESXi, you must reinstall to migrate or upgrade. Upgrading is a great reason to consider modernizing your virtualization infrastructure. VMWare currently recommends that new deployments of vSphere 4.x are done on [...]
After having connected to your VC server: Get-VM | select-Object Name, @{ Name=”NumCPU”; Expression={ ($_ | measure-object -property NumCPU -sum).Sum }}, @{ Name=”StorageGB”; Expression={ ($_ | get-harddisk | measure-object -property CapacityKB -sum).Sum / 1024 / 1024 }}, @{ Name=”MemoryGB”; Expression={ ($_ | measure-object -property MemoryMB -sum).Sum / 1024 }} | Format-Table -AutoSize This produces the [...]