PowerCLI: Get or Set VAAI Settings for VMware Hosts

During a recent technical engagement with a vendor, my team was asked to verify that VAAI was disabled for all hosts attached to that vCenter. There are several different ways to go about doing this, so I figured I would put this blog post together to showcase some of the different ways in which this can be accomplished. There are three settings that need to be reviewed (or changed). They are: DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedMove, DataMover.HardwareAcceleratedInit, and VMFS3.HardwareAcceleratedLocking. A value of 1 means the setting is enabled, and a value of 0 means the setting is disabled.

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