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:
I have had a lot of comments on my sample scripts that add information to the VI Client using Custom Fields. I did have to resolve some issues with the scripts, so I have updated the scripts in the original post here. Be sure to refresh your browser to get the latest versions.
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In my previous post, I showed you how to add information to your VI Client using Custom Fields. Here are some ready-to-go scripts to add very useful info:
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I already showed you how to do this, but I have now added an IF-statement so that only changes are updated (equal values are [...]
Although I spend quite some time in the Powershell Command Line Interface, the main tool for managing the Virtual Infrastructure remains the VI Client. So wouldn’t it be great if we could somehow show the results of our Powershell VI Toolkit scripts inside the VI Client?
Well, we [...]
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