Importing a list of exeptions. (CSV)
Good morning everyone. Hopefully one of you guys might be able to help me with a minor scripting issue I am having. I have a script I am writing that will do the following; 1) List all Virtual...
View ArticlePowerCLI script for vSphere capacity planning
Hello everyone! After recent discussion on vSphere Capacity planning, I thought I would share one of the tools I use for this purpose. This is a side project I've been working on for few months. I...
View ArticleCertificate validation with Connect-VIServer (PowerCLI 10.0 & 6.5.4.7155375)
I'm trying to resolve a certificate validation issue I'm seeing in PowerCLI. (I know I can just set -InvalidCertificateAction to Ignore or save the thumbprint as an exception in PSTCS as a workaround.)...
View ArticleCheck and Disconnect session
Hi, Please help to how to check and disconnect a visession ? I would like to check and disconnect from vcenter1 before I connect to vcenter2 disconnect-viserver -server vcen01 -force -confirm:$false
View Articlehistorical Avg CPU,MEM and diskusage
Hello,I was wondering if I can get a historical data (for the past week with interval 120min) to export in CSV with CPUaverage, Memoryaverage, and Diskusage with a date for specific Vmhost export to...
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IP address of Host displayed instead of Host Name...
I have given my esxi a Name...but when I use Get-VMHost... I get Name ConnectionState PowerState NumCpu CpuUsageMhz CpuTotalMhz---- --------------- ---------- ------...
View Article32bit win7 OS in our VM machines clients but we see not support al our...
Thanks for allwe have 32bit win7 OS in our VM machines clients but we see not support al our applications want upgrade to 64 bit also another reason our apps require more than 4 GB RAM i have...
View ArticleDetermine whether a resource pool has sufficient resource for a set of VMs...
Is there any PowerCLI command which will return how much CPU resources are available in a particular resource pool in terms of number of vCPUs? Or whether a resource pool has sufficient CPU resources...
View ArticleClone VM Script
I'm looking to create a PowerCLI script to clone a VM, and overwrite any existing clones that are present. Just doing some searching, here is what I found:New-VM -Name VM2 -VM VM1 -Datastore...
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vcsa 6.5 trying to automate the backup - authentication failure
Hello I tried to make the Backup-VCSAToFile work in my development environment. vSphere 6.5 – Automate VCSA Backup » Brian Graf's Virtualization Blog I'm stuck here:A server error occurred:...
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Guest VMs Antivirus Status
HiI need to find the McAfee installed status on 6000 windows VM's. The problem is these are not reporting to McAfee EPO Server. I need to check is AV is installed or not.The only way is I can invoke to...
View ArticleCluster Report
Hi, I'm trying to script a very basic report to output some info for all Clusters in a specific DatacenterCluster NameNames of ESXi Hosts in the ClusterNames of Datastores seen by the Clusteretc......
View ArticleGet ESXI info
Hello,I have this script to check each host, I would like to add some columns: Get-VMHost | Select name, @{N="Host";E={($_ | Get-VMHostNetwork).Hostname}}, @{N=”Datacenter”;E={Get-Datacenter...
View ArticleTrack Status of move-vm Task fails
Hey, i am working on a script which check the status of the datastore befor a snapshot of a vm is taken. If the free space on the ds in not enough it will move the vm to a other ds which will meet the...
View Articleschedule
Hi guru Very very new to CLI so go easy on me I would like to make this small script to a psc1 file that I can run from a scheduled task connect-VIserver -server $Vms=Get-folder 'path' | get-vm |...
View ArticleRecompose Horizon Desktop Pools via PowerCLI
I have been trying to find a way to recompose our VDI Pools via PowerCli and find only references to old deprecated PowerCli commands. Does anyone know how to kick off a recompose with the current...
View ArticleOVF Tool to connect to vCenter instead of connecting to Esxi Host
With OVF tool, can we connect to vCenter and then pass Esxi host name as a paramater ? or is there a way to skip the root password for Esxi ?
View ArticleOVFTool doesn't exit after successful completion of export directly from ESXi...
Hello everyone, I ran into the following issue while using VMware OVF Tool v4.2.0.15421 under Windows 7/10. I am using the tool in powershell scripts. Since updating from v4.1 the tool doesn't exit...
View Articlecreated local user but cannot login
I created a localuser on 6.5 esxi server but cannot login as user connect-viserver -server esxiserver -user root -password "mypass"New-VMHostAccount -Id test -Password "mypass" -UserAccount...
View Articleslow ovftool
OvfTool Version: VMware ovftool 4.2.0 (build-5965791)ESXi 6.0 (newest patch). I have deployed windows server 2012r2 for ovmtool instillation and export purpose.VMs which I need to export and windows...
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