Folder Name Mismatch
Isn’t it annoying when you are looking for a VM on your datastore and you cant find it because the folder name is not the same as the VM,use the below script and you will never have that problem...
View ArticleService status and email if down (as well as try to start it)
Here is a script I sorta came up with that checks common vmware services and then emails if any one of them aren't running (and trys to start them)(since our vsphere upgrade bombed a few times thanks...
View ArticleConfigure Switching for ESX host based on .CSV
A couple of weeks ago I was in need to configure several new ESX servers with multiple NICs, vSwitches, and VLANs. Since I'm not one to do the same thing over and over again I turned to scripting. To...
View ArticleJob-Rescan-ALL-HBA
This program will rescan all the HBA's in your vm enviroment, and instead of doing it one at a time, it creates a seperate job for each ESX host. Thus multithreading the rescan. For ESX 3.5 this is...
View ArticlevCheck (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.
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