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
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
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
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
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:
With a lot of VMs using Thin Provisioning ive been working with service desk users to find a quick way of them figuring out which Datastore they should deploy VMs to while ensuring they dont over-allocate. I know over-allocation is a big perk of thin provisioning but regardless were working towards ensuring that we dont
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
