Copy all Tags to your DRaaS vCenter
Copy all required tags to your recovery vCenter to bring your DR Plans into compliance
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Category: PowerCLI
Script to take hosts out of maintenance mode in vCenter & vROPs
On occasion, I’ve noticed that people can sometimes forget to take a host out of maintenance mode in vROPs after completing some work in vCenter. I have created a short PowerCLI script that will pull a list of hosts from a specified CSV file, connect to your vCenter & vROPs then exit the listed hosts
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Add additional Syslog servers to ESXi hosts
This script proved to be a little more challenging than I had first expected. As you may be aware, simply running Set-VMHostSysLogServer will overwrite your existing configuration which is less than ideal when you’re trying to add a new server to your list. This script will prompt you for a file that will need to
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vSphere 7 Security Configuration Guide Powercli Menu
Following the release of the vSphere 7 Security guide last October, I thought it was about time I updated my PowerCLI script to speed up compliance checking. My vSphere 6.5 guide was reasonably popular so I’m hoping people will find this equally useful! Download Here on Gitlab The script is pretty straightforward and will provide
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PowerCLI – Delete Port Groups using a CSV list
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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Deploy a vRealize Network Insight cluster using Lifecycle manager
The below steps assume you have an existing environment deployed and you’re simply wanting to add vRNI to it.Before you get started, please ensure that you have collected your IP information & have configured DNS entries for the platform and collector VMs. Log into vRLCM and go to the environments section: Find the environment you
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GitHub uploads
Just a quick post to say that I’ve started uploading some of the scripts I’ve been using to my GitHub Repository. More will come over the next few weeks Support PowerCLI Menu vSphere Replication Failover Menu 1,733 total views
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Upgrade your VCSA from 6.7U3 to 7 – Part 2
This is part 2 of my “Upgrade your VCSA” instructions, to see part 1 click HERE 1.Click “Continue” to move onto the next stage 2. Stage 2 show now be highlighted, click Next 3. Select what data you need to migrate and upgrade. Copying performance metrics etc is optional. 4. Confirm all the details are
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Upgrade your VCSA from 6.7U3 to 7 – Part 1
There’s no shortage of posts out there explaining how to upgrade your vCenter but seeing as I was upgrading from 6.7U3 to the recently launched 7, I thought I would run through the steps with you all. Note: Before you start the upgrade, please ensure you have done your due diligence and checked the VMware
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Deploy a new VM with PowerCLI
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 1,611 total views, 1 views today
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