Make hostfile entries to ESXi with no sweat

So when we build datacenters for clients we sometimes make hostfile entries to the ESXi hosts. This was a tedious boring task . Imagine yourself
enabling SSH on 100 hosts
edit the /etc/hosts in the shell command
disable ssh on 100 hosts.
Even if you calculate 5 minutes a host it is 500
I thought of trying to find a lazy man's way around it since I consider to be one.
Once again plink to the rescue.
First of all we will use alan's plink script to download it if we dont have it.

#http://www.virtu-al.net/2013/01/07/ssh-powershell-tricks-with-plink-exe/
$PlinkLocation = $PSScriptRoot + "\Plink.exe"
If (-not (Test-Path $PlinkLocation)){
   Write-Host "Plink.exe not found, trying to download..."
   $WC = new-object net.webclient
   $WC.DownloadFile("http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/plink.exe",$PlinkLocation)
   If (-not (Test-Path $PlinkLocation)){
      Write-Host "Unable to download plink.exe, please download from the following URL and add it to the same folder as this script: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/plink.exe"
      Exit
   } Else {
      $PlinkEXE = Get-ChildItem $PlinkLocation
      If ($PlinkEXE.Length -gt 0) {
         Write-Host "Plink.exe downloaded, continuing script"
      } Else {
         Write-Host "Unable to download plink.exe, please download from the following URL and add it to the same folder as this script: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/plink.exe"
         Exit
      }
   } 
}

It is better to have this plink copied manually to the folder where the script is located and run this script from a location where you can resolve the hostnames of the target hosts.

#If using in powershell then add snapins below for VMware ESXi.
Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

#Disconnect from already connected viservers if any
Disconnect-VIServer * -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

#Connect to the vcenter server
connect-viserver

#X server's credentials
$user = Read-Host "Host's username?"
$pass = Read-Host "Host's password?"

#copy plink & pscp to c:\ for now
Copy-Item $PSScriptRoot\plink.exe C:\

#variables
#put the name of the cluster between quotes. Enter multiple cluster's names & separate them by a comma (no space in between)
$cluster = ""
$VMHosts = get-cluster $cluster | Get-VMHost | sort

#Enable SSH on all hosts
get-cluster $cluster | Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostService | where {$_.Key -eq "TSM-SSH"} | Start-VMHostService

ForEach ($VMHost in $VMHosts)
{
echo y | C:\plink.exe -ssh $user@$VMHost -pw $pass "exit"

#replace the 'someline' with the value that you want.
#To add multiple lines repeat the below command multiple times with the respective values instead of someline (enclose entries within "")
C:\plink.exe -ssh -v -noagent $VMHost -l $user -pw $pass 'echo "someline" >> /etc/hosts'

#This line below displays the resulting contents of the file
C:\plink.exe -ssh -v -noagent $VMHost -l $user -pw $pass "cat /etc/hosts"
}

#delete plink from c:\
Remove-Item C:\plink.exe

#Disable SSH on all hosts
get-cluster $cluster | Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostService | where {$_.Key -eq "TSM-SSH"} | Stop-VMHostService -confirm:$false

#####additional sources#####

Hey don't blame me if I don't update it here much. I only udpate them on github for all.