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={$_.vmhost.DomainMembershipStatus}}
The below script allows you to quickly configure the NTP & Syslog settings on all hosts in a specified cluster. It will prompt you to enter an NTP server & Syslog server address before applying it to each host. Im using my usual variables:$Global:DCChoice – DC Choice$Global:CLUChoice – Cluster Choice function VP-SetNTPandSyslog { $NTPServer =
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 is a fairly straightforward couple of one liners that use my usual variables (i will list them below). $global:DCChoice – DC Choice $global:CLUChoice – Cluster Choice You can add or remove these variables as required #Run a VUM compliance checkGet-Datacenter $global:DCChoice | Get-Cluster $global:CLUChoice | Scan-Inventory #Check VUM Compliance resultsGet-Datacenter $global:DCChoice | Get-Cluster $global:CLUChoice
The function “VP-HostCDPInfo” will list all hosts in cluster $Global:CLUChoice from DC $Global:DCChoice, you can then select a host and list its CDP information for each NIC Get host CDP Informationfunction VP-HostCDPInfo { $hosts = Get-datacenter $Global:DCChoice | Get-Cluster $Global:CLUChoice | get-vmhost Write-Host “================ Select host ================” $i = 1 $hosts | ForEach-Object -Process {
For some time now I’ve wanted to put together a PowerCLI menu system, just to make running common commands a little faster. Let’s start with vCenter, unfortunately, this is the only part that hardcoded so you’re going to need to amend this to include your vCenters FQDN ###############################File Location ############################### $scriptDir = Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path
All the commands below reference variables created from my menu system post, obviously if you are not using that menu you will need to change them to work with your environment.These are just some of the commands i used recently on an audit: To Export to CSV simply append the following to the end of
This scrip will pull a list of all Windows VMs including their vCenter Name, FQDN & Guest OS Version. You can make it more tartget by specifying a Datacenter &/or a Cluster e.g Get-Datacenter DC Name | Get-Cluster Cluster | … #Get Windows VMs inc FQDN & OS Versionget-vm | where {$_.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
This function pulls a list of hosts from your vCenter that are currently in maintenance mode and moves them into your previous selected cluster. Again this uses my usual variables, specifically: VP-MoveHostCluster – Function Name $Global:DCChoice – DC Choice$Global:CLUChoice – Cluster Choice function VP-MoveHostCluster { $hosts = Get-datacenter $Global:DCChoice | get-vmhost | Where {$_.ConnectionState -eq
