Scripts to automatically remove "zombies" devices aka "non-present devices after P2V???

[azn2kew]

Hello All,

I'm not sure if this can be done via script, but for those dealing with P2V tons of windows servers this process of removing zombies aka "non-present devices" can be very time consuming. I'm curious if anyone script guru out there has done this that we can use. This will save a lot of man hours when doing large scope P2V project.

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Stefan Nguyen

VMware vExpert 2009

iGeek Systems Inc.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

[azn2kew]

I'm sure we can use devcon.exe from Microsoft because we've use it to script a conversion of ACPI Standard PC to Uniprocessor to gain better performance of several of our P2V'ed servers. I'm not just familiar with the switch "REMOVE" using with devcon.exe perhaps someone can shed some lights.

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Stefan Nguyen

VMware vExpert 2009

iGeek Systems Inc.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

[azn2kew]

Good news after Google shopping, its been scripted before by Mike Laverick and you can download and read more details here http://communities.vmware.com/thread/25121 and hopefully it still goo.

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Stefan Nguyen

VMware vExpert 2009

iGeek Systems Inc.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant