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Report vSphere Alarms with Powershell

By On October 30, 2009 · 4 Comments

Wow, vSphere vCenter Server has a lot of new alarms! Great for monitoring your environment. But a pain when it comes to documenting it. Thank God VMware for the PowerCLI! Just a few lines of code can do the documentation for you.

Here’s how:

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Add Vmx Path to VI Client using Powershell

By On September 15, 2009 · 11 Comments

The following script is a request from David Gontie, who was kind enough to comment on a previous post.

He’d like to add the location of his vm’s to a custom field. This is especially handy if you store all the files for a vm in a single datastore.

Here you go David:

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Set VMware Snapshot Location with Powershell

By On August 27, 2009 · 13 Comments

Snapshots are m*th3rfcukers. If you’re not careful, they will mass-murder your vms. Yet they allow you to time-travel! You want to use them, but how to prevent a massacre? Here’s how: relocate the delta files.

When you create a snapshot, the current state of the vm is preserved by leaving the disk files alone. All changes [...]

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Checking VMware NTP configuration with Powershell

By On February 12, 2009 · 3 Comments

Thanks to the VMware VI Toolkit 1.5, checking the NTP settings on all your VMware ESX Servers is as easy as a oneliner:

Get-VMHost | Sort Name | Select Name, @{N=”NTP”;E={Get-VMHostNtpServer $_}}

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VI Toolkit 1.5 Getting Started and Undocumented Functions

By On January 29, 2009 · 3 Comments

0. Installing
Installing or upgrading the VI Toolkit 1.5 is as easy as Next, Next, Finish. And using the new VI Toolkit shortcut on your desktop allows quick and easy access to the Toolkit. But what about running these cmdlets from your scripts or integrating it with other snapins? Read [...]

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