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Blog posts October 2025

Broadcom PowerCLI: Building a GUI to Check VMware HA Admission Control Compliance

This PowerCLI GUI script I have written to audit VMware ESXi clusters high availability (HA) inside vCenter Server. This script validates below ideal configuration is defined on the cluster and tells me whether configuration is correct with green tick and non-compliant with red cross.

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The PowerShell Sorting Trap: Why 10 Always Comes Before 2 in Your CSV Data

When sorting CSV data with PowerShell, I observed unexpected results, as shown in the screenshot below. The initial command, Import-Csv C:\Temp\Numberings.csv, shows that the numbers in the CSV are out of sequence. To sort these numbers, I used the simple pipeline command Sort-Object specifying the

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Automating VMware ESXi Cluster Admission Control Report Insights with PowerCLI

This PowerCLI script retrieves detailed information about VMware Cluster High Availability (HA) and Admission Control policies. It is extremely useful for system administrators and auditors who need to verify that cluster settings comply with engineering or governance standards.

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