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Tag Archives: powercli
PowerCLI: Creating custom SATP rule for HPE 3PAR
A while back we migrated from our old EMC VNX to a new HPE 3PAR array. It all went fine but what kinda slipped our mind is that HPE’s best practice is to create a custom SATP rule that uses … Continue reading
Posted in HPE 3PAR, PowerCLI, VMware
Tagged get-esxcli, HPE 3PAR, path selection poliocy, powercli, PSP, SATP
UCSD: Passing multiple arguments to start-job while using the Cisco PowerShell Agent
While the Cisco PowerShell Agent (PSA) that can be used in UCS Director isn’t exactly perfect, it can still be put to good use. As long as you now how to use it properly The major issue with using the PSA … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, UCS Director
Tagged powercli, Powershell, PSA, start-job, UCS Director
PowerCLI: Function for listing snapshots
My very first PowerCLI related post was about this same topic: listing snapshot info using PowerCLI. In my original post (which you can see here) I only wrote a pretty simple one-liner. Which was kind of okay, but it was … Continue reading
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged function, get-snapshot, get-snapshots, get-vievent, powercli, Powershell, snapshots, vmware
PowerCLI: Evacuating a datastore
In case you ever need to empty out a datastore in you vmware environment, there is a nice little one-liner in PowerCLI for that: Get-VM -Datastore “datastore1” | Move-VM -Datastore (Get-VMHost -Location ‘cluster1’ | Select-Object -First 1 | Get-Datastore | … Continue reading
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged one-liner, powercli, Powershell, storage vmotion, vmware
PowerCLI: Getting vmhost uptime
I love a powershell challenge, and last week a colleague of mine asked me for assistance in getting the uptime of vmware hosts. My initial response did the trick: Get-View -ViewType hostsystem -Property name,runtime.boottime | Select-Object Name, @{N=”UptimeDays”; E={((((get-date) – … Continue reading
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged function, get-vmhostuptime, powercli, Powershell, uptime, vmhost, vmware
PowerCLI: Getting the status of vmware tools on all VMs
I’m sure I don’t need to explain to you guys why VMware tools is a good idea to have installed on your VMs, and probably not why it’s a good idea to keep VMware tools updated. However, I haven’t found … Continue reading
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged function, get-vmtoolsstatus, powercli, Powershell, vmware, vmware tools
PowerCLI: Getting datastore alarms
Next in the series on getting alarms is getting datastore alarms. Again, the code is pretty similar: $Datastores = Get-View -ViewType Datastore -Property Name,OverallStatus,TriggeredAlarmstate $FaultyDatastores = $Datastores | Where-Object {$_.TriggeredAlarmState -ne “{}”} $progress = 1 $report = @() if ($FaultyDatastores … Continue reading
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged alarms, function, get-datastorealarms, powercli, Powershell, vmware
PowerCLI: Getting cluster alarms
The next step in my short series on getting vCenter alarms using PowerCLI is to get cluster alarms. Here’s the code: $Clusters = Get-View -ViewType ComputeResource -Property Name,OverallStatus,TriggeredAlarmstate $FaultyClusters = $Clusters | Where-Object {$_.TriggeredAlarmState -ne “{}”} $report = @() $progress … Continue reading
Posted in PowerCLI, Powershell, VMware
Tagged alarms, function, get-clusteralarms, powercli, Powershell, vmware
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