Last week I had an unfortunate experience; I ignored the expiration warning of a bunch of nested ESXi hosts and allowed the license to expire.

Rather then logging into a bunch of individual hosts to apply a key, I wrote a quick script that will connect to vCenter, ensure all the licenses are the correct one, and then …

Note: I enjoy writing, but often find myself not doing so simply because it can take a lot of effort to write a “good” post.  In an effort to post more regularly, I’m planning to post more frequent short write-ups of things I am doing in my lab.

One of the most overlooked aspects of your management infrastructure is …