vCheck (Daily Report) V3
Daily Report does what it says on the tin, it runs as a scheduled task before you get into the office to present you with key information about your infrastructure in a nice easily readable format....
View ArticleUsing PowerCLI to migrate VMs in a DRS enabled Cluster
We are running ESX 4.0 on HP DL380G6 servers. I created a cluster with three hosts and enabled HA and DRS. I can use the VSphere GUI to tell a host to enter Maintenance Mode, and since it is in a...
View Articlecreate a. bat file to connect to vCenter
Hello, I need to create one .bat to open a connection automatically to vCenter, I created a .bat PowerCLI calling and opens well but I did not connect, you copy the contents: C: \ Windows \ System32 \...
View ArticleNeed a PS script to delete/remove a VM
Hello, Is there any sample powershell script to perform something simple like removing a VW? Given the datacenter name and the vm name, is there such a script someplace I could use to perform that?...
View ArticlePowerCLI script to clone and customize Linux guest OS
http://honglus.blogspot.com/2010/10/vsphere-powercli-script-to-clone-and.html The script can clone Linux and assign ip addresses to multiple adapters. There are 2 scriptsdiscover-info.ps1 Discovery...
View ArticleNumber of vCPUs in a cluster
Inspired by Jason Boche’s article: http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/08/18/hidden-virtual-cpu-limit-restriction-in-esx-3-5/ and also William Lam’s Perl Script...
View ArticleGet-VDMData (takes a username and returns data about all the Virtual Desktops...
We get tickets from users that are having an issue with their Virtual Desktops and we only have their username to figure out which VM they are using. It can be a pain to find out which VMs they are...
View ArticleFast Snapshot Report
We needed a way to identify all machines that had snapshots. Get-snapshot was far too slow, so I wrote this script to quickly generate a report of all VMs with snapshots more than 2 weeks old. This...
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vCenter Statistics Level Audit Script
The following script was written to solve a problem in our environment where we had a vCenter server that had it’s Statistics Level set much too high. While the high granularity is helpful for...
View ArticleDelete folder in datastore
Hi all, I've been trying forever to use the "$fileMgr.DeleteDatastoreFile_Task" command in PowerCLI.I create clones for backup, and after cloning I remove them from the inventory. So now I want to...
View ArticleRun Script on host ESX and copy results back to server
I am new to using PowerCLI and hoping that this will save me time from going to 26 ESX host servers and doing it manually. I am looking for a command to run an audit.sh script that is copied out to the...
View ArticleGet Datastore details by selected DataCenter in a VC
This script will connect to multiple VCs > List Datacenters > Will ask to enter DC name from which you wan to colleact datastore details.
View ArticleI Need help, How to configure IP addresses of VMs with PowerCLI
Hello everyone, I open this topic because i really need your help. I've written a script that can automatically create 10 virtual machines on my ESX Server.I run the script with PowerCLI. I want now by...
View ArticleHelp with Customization Specification
Good Day, I am trying to create a script that will import a Customization Specification (Custom Spec) that was created in a different vCenter. As we know the Password for the local administrator...
View ArticleHelp with ESXi 5.0U2 hosts and PowerCLI / CLI
Can I use PowerCLI U1 and VMware CLI 5.0U1 on hosts with U2?? I am having issues.
View ArticleSome PowerCLI cmdlet does not work with Powershell Remoting
Hi All, I am trying to run the PowerCLI in a remote powershell session. Connecting to vSphere works just fine however some of the cmdlets just hangs. I checked with Fiddler and it appears that the...
View ArticleAutomated daily snapshots
I looked around for something to create and manage daily snapshots and didn't find anything, so I wrote this. Thought I'd share in case others might use it.cd 'C:\Program Files...
View ArticleNeed help import OVF using DeploymentOption
Hi there,I am using PowerCLI PowerShell script to automate the import of OVFs.My problem is that my OVF has DeploymentOption section with 2 configurations, where each configuration points to a...
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