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 $global:CLUChoice | Get-DrsRecommendation Write-Host
#Get VMs with old or no toolsget-vm | where {$_.ExtensionData.Guest.ToolsStatus -eq “toolsOld” -or $_.ExtensionData.Guest.ToolsStatus -eq “toolsNotInstalled”} | Select Name, PowerState, @{N=”ToolsStatus”;E={$_.ExtensionData.Guest.ToolsStatus}} | Sort ToolsStatus
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={$_.vmhost.DomainMembershipStatus}}
May been a few years old but the below post from legendary PowerCLI vExpect Luc Dekens is very much still worth checking out…. Awesome script for finding orphaned files on your datastores! During a recent audit i managed to located almost 1TB of forgotten vmdks and iso files on numerous datastores. Anyway, Check it out:
This scrip will pull a list of all Windows VMs including their vCenter Name, FQDN & Guest OS Version. You can make it more tartget by specifying a Datacenter &/or a Cluster e.g Get-Datacenter DC Name | Get-Cluster Cluster | … #Get Windows VMs inc FQDN & OS Versionget-vm | where {$_.ExtensionData.Guest.GuestFullName -Like “Microsoft*” -or
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
