From the monthly archives: June 2009

Create a vSwitch Port Overview with Powershell

By On June 24, 2009 · 2 Comments

WARNING: VMware vmotion does not check wether there are sufficient ports available on the virtual switch on the destination host. Migrating a vm to a host with insufficient ports will cause the vmotion to complete without warnings, yet the virtual NIC will be disconnected! This issue is descripbed in this KB article.

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Examine VMware CPU Ready Times with Powershell

By On June 12, 2009 · 10 Comments

When your (VMware) consolidation ratios are becoming high, it might be smart to keep an eye on your vm’s CPU Ready Times. Unfortunately, by default, the VI Client will only show realtime ready time statistics. Plus you’d have to look at each vm individually. Thank God VMware for the

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Managing Scheduled Tasks Remotely Using Powershell

By On June 4, 2009 · 14 Comments

The following Powershell functions allow you to manage querying, creating and removing scheduled tasks on one or more computers remotely.
The functions use schtasks.exe, which is included in Windows. Unlike the Win32_ScheduledJob WMI class, the schtasks.exe commandline tool will show manually created tasks, as well as script-created ones. The examples show some, [...]

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Increment PowerGUI Xml Version with Powershell

By On June 2, 2009 · 1 Comment

If you are using PowerGUI (which you should) and some of your collaegues do too, you might want to use a central configuration. Whenever you want to update the central configuration xml file, you need to increment the version number in order to push this change out to your collaegues. The following function [...]

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