With the help of these three blogposts: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2011/05/15/simplify-your-powershell-script-with-parameter-validation/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2011/01/11/validate-powershell-parameters-before-running-the-script/ https://kevinmarquette.github.io/2017-07-31-Powershell-regex-regular-expression/#validatepattern I created a Powershell Parameter validation check to make sure the server I was running a script against was one of five sequentially numbered servers: Param( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)] [ValidatePattern(“Server[1-5]”)]     [STRING]$Server )

I had to capture packets in a vSwitch on an ESXi 5.5 host to prove to a vendor that the VM was receiving those packets. I ran across VMware KB: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2051814 Here is what I came up with to capture the packets 1. Get vswitchport of VM net-stats -l 2. run two pcaps at the […]