During a recent NSX-T Upgrade project, I was required to migrate VMs from traditional VLAN backed distributed port groups onto NSX-T port groups. This left a large number of port groups that needed to be removed. Fortunately, I was able to export a CSV list and run this quick function to import the CSV list
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A PowerCLI function that prompts you to select from your Clusters, Hosts, Datastores & Networks. It will then deploy a VM according to the sizes you input 846 total views, 4 views today
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For those of us still relatively new to PowerCLI and working towards automating as many robotic tasks as possible, there is a handy tool in vCenter called Code Capture. This has been available since vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.7U2 in the developer centre so its not exactly new but a lot of people don’t realise
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The below command will create a host profile for each host found in $global:CLUChoice, The profile will be named “VMhostName-Profile” and will include the date the profile was taken in the description $global:DCChoice – Datacenter$global:CLUChoice – Cluster Get-Datacenter $global:DCChoice | Get-Cluster $global:CLUChoice | Get-VMHost | ForEach-Object -Process { New-VMHostProfile -Name “$($_.Name)-Profile” -Description “$($_.Name)) Profile. This
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Ive decided to start making use of GitHub to make it easier for people to make use of my some of the powerCLI ive been posting and more importantly for me to keep track of when im adding additional functionality… My Link is below and i will be Uploading to it over the coming weeks
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You have the option of either using the variable $VM to specify multiple VMs that require the same disk configuration, or you can manually enter the VM name in its place #Specify VMs $vm = Get-VM “*VM Name*” #Add a thick provisioned, Eager Zeroed disk to 1 or more VMs: New-HardDisk -StorageFormat EagerZeroedThick -Controller “SCSI
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Heres a function i put together that pulls a list of DRS recommendations for your chosen cluster then asks whether you want to apply them. It uses my usual variables from my menu system $Global:DCChoice – Datacenter Choice$global:CLUChoice – Cluster Choice #Apply DRS recomendations? function VP-ApplyDRSRecommendations { Get-Datacenter $global:DCChoice | Get-Cluster $global:CLUChoice | Get-DrsRecommendation Write-Host
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The function “VP-WhichHost” will check the average CPU & Memory utilization of a specified cluster and then display all hosts that are below the average. All results are taken from real time metrics. It is broken out into 3 sections of “Below Average Memory”, “Below Average CPU” & “Below both AVG CPU & Memory” to
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Quick one line list all host in a cluster and display their domain membership status Get-Datacenter $global:DCChoice | Get-Cluster $global:CLUChoice | get-vmhost | Get-VMHostAuthentication | select -Property VMhost, @{N=”Domain”;E={$_.vmhost.Domain}},@{N=”DomainMembershipStatus”;E={$_.vmhost.DomainMembershipStatus}} 909 total views, 2 views today
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As with everything in IT, having things standardized generally makes your life easier. Unfortunately in many environments, snapshots tend to get overlooked and their naming convention can end up a little adhoc which can lead to confusion around who and why they were taken. Ive put together the following script which takes a snapshot with
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