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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 [...]
I have promised you I would post this script, so here it is!
This Powershell script generates an overview of any items that are not available to every ESX server in a VMware cluster. These items might prevent your vm’s being vmotioned by DRS or restarted by HA. Pretty serious [...]
I showed you before how to compare the datastores for two ESX Servers using the VI Toolkit. But ideally, one would like to compare all ESX servers in a cluster to ensure VMotion and HA compatibility.
So I started scripting and it turns out to be pretty simple: only 4 lines [...]
I’ve created another way to gather and display VMware Virtual Disk information with the Powershell VI Toolkit.
The attached script generates a csv-file with all Virtual Machines’ Disks, in which Datastore they are stored, the LUN IDs of the extents that make up this Datastore (in HEX) and the [...]
One of the challenges in managing a large VMware Infrastructure is keeping all ESX Servers within a cluster equal. This is essential for having vmotion capabilities and therefore essential for a solid HA configuration. I have showed you earlier how to add the LUN Count for each ESX Server to your VI [...]
I have showed you before how to access the License Manager with the Powershell VMware VI Toolkit. But the properties of the License Manager appear to only reflect the Virtual Center License Information. So how do we get information about licensing for each individual ESX Server?
We [...]
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.
In [...]
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:
Snapshot Count
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 [...]
Using VMware seriously requires a lot of (shared) storage. This kind of storage (on a SAN for instance) is quite expensive. So you might want to check if you are wasting a lot of this space. When you look at the storage in VMware, it consists of multiple abstraction layers. A [...]
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