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From the monthly archives: August 2008
Do your vm’s have multiple virtual disks? Do you use different datastores for your vmdk’s? Are you ever wondering where the disk files of each of your vm’s is stored? Yes? Well, I’ve got something to help you out.
Today’s handy script of the day creates an overview of the locations of all your vmdk [...]
Why I love Powershell:
Yesterday I needed to create an overview of people, their department name and office location. I wanted to have this list in Excel. But all I had was a textfile with their names. A tedious task to fill in all this information, one might think. Luckily, I know
It’s done!
Today I have finished my script for the VI Toolkit Scripting Contest. This contest celebrates the release of the VI Toolkit for Windows; a collection of cmdlets for Windows Powershell that allow you to manage your VMware Infrastructure.
Alle the entries for the contest are [...]
Carter Shanklin explains a great new feature of the official 1.0 release of the VI Toolkit here:
http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2008/08/keeping-it-simp.html
This should make your scripts (the ones created for the beta release) a lot shorter!
New-VM -vmHost (Get-VMHost $VMHostName) -datastore (Get-Datastore $DatastoreName) -network (Get-Network $NetworkName)
or:
$VMHost = Get-VMHost $VMHostName
$Datastore = [...]
Yesterday, alanrenouf asked the following question on the VMware Community VI Toolkit forums:
Is there a way (preferably a one-liner) to get a list of vm’s and the number of snapshots per vm?
Here’s a script that will get that info:
$VC = Connect-VIServer $VCServerName
$vms = Get-VM
$myCol [...]
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