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Category Archives: Powershell
PowerCLI: Getting host alarms
Yesterday I wrote a post about getting vm alarms through PowerCLI. Today it’s time for getting host alarms The code is very similar to the one for getting vm alarms, since they both use get-view to grab all info: $VMHosts … Continue reading
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged alarms, function, get-vmhostalarms, powercli, Powershell, vmware
PowerCLI: Getting vm alarms
A few weeks ago I started to put together a health check script for our vmware environments and the first thing I wanted to have in that report is a list of triggered alarms. To my surprise there was no … Continue reading
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged alarms, function, get-vmalarms, powercli, Powershell, vmware
PowerCLI: Mount NFS stores on multiple hosts
Ever had a bunch of vmware hosts that you want to add a NFS datastore on? It can be quite time consuming to say the least. In our environment we have a couple of NFS stores that should be available … Continue reading
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged mount nfs, Mount-NFSstores, powercli, Powershell
Powershell: Listing activated clients on KMS server
If you are using a KMS server for activating servers and clients in your environment, you may have noticed that there’s really no obvious way to get a list of all the clients that have been activated by the KMS … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Powershell
Tagged get-eventlog, KMS, Powershell
Powershell: Measuring latency on DNS queries
A little while ago we have some issues with one of our Exchange environments. The symptoms was that basically everything was slow, opening address books, owa, sending mails and so on. After some digging it occurred to me that this … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Powershell
Tagged dns, dns latency, function, Measure-DNSLatency, Powershell
PowerCli: Finding amount of GB used by VMs in a folder/vApp/datacenter
Sometimes it can be useful to know how much space the VMs in a specific folder (or vApp/datacenter) is occupying. For example if you are a hosting provider of some sort and need to know how much space a customer … Continue reading
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged disk space, get-harddisk, powercli
Powershell: Write-Progress, a step-by-step guide
For whatever reason, I had a really difficult time wrapping my head around the usage of Write-Progress. The basic usage is off-course quite easy: Write-Progress -Activity “Something” -Status “Something else” -CurrentOperation “thinking” -PercentComplete 30 This will show a quick progress … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Powershell
Tagged guide, Powershell, write-progress
PowerCLI: Consolidate all VMs that need consolidation
Robert van den Nieuwendijk has a nice post on how to use PowerCLI to find VMs that need consolidation and then how to start consolidation. You can that post here: http://rvdnieuwendijk.com/2012/09/26/use-powercli-to-consolidate-snapshots-in-vsphere-5/ But, as always, I prefer to make a function of … Continue reading
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged disk consolidation, powercli, Start-Consolidation, vmware, vsphere
PowerCLI: Locate a MAC-address in vCenter
To find out to which vm a MAC address belongs, you can use a simple one-liner: Get-vm | Select Name, @{N=“Network“;E={$_ | Get-networkAdapter | ? {$_.macaddress -eq“00:50:56:A4:22:F4“}}} |Where {$_.Network-ne “”} (Courtesy of this page: http://www.virtu-al.net/2009/07/07/powercli-more-one-liner-power/ ) Thats really great, and you … Continue reading
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged function, get-macaddress, get-vm, powercli, Powershell, vmware
PowerCLI: List all vm’s with ISO mounted and dismount them
Easy-peasy and a pretty short post… To get all vm’s with iso mounted: Get-VM | Get-CDDrive | select @{N=”VM”;E=”Parent”},IsoPath | where {$_.IsoPath -ne $null} Then, to dismount those: Get-VM | Get-CDDrive | where {$_.IsoPath -ne $null} | Set-CDDrive -NoMedia -Confirm:$False
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged dismount iso, get-vm, powercli, Powershell, set-cddrive, vmware