Ever wanted to rescan storage on all of the ESXi hosts in your vCenter environment at once?This article shows how to write a PowerShell script that will rescan a list of ESXi hosts in your environment for new storage, either VFMS, NTFS, or both.

Ever had an outage while you were away from the office and you didn't (or couldn't) check your email from your mobile phone? What if your environment could notify administrators via SMS (text) messages about things going on in the environment? It can! For free! If you can't afford to purchase a more robust monitoring and notification system, SMS notifications can be automated internally for free. In this article we'll go over how to send SMS messages using an SMTP server and PowerShell.