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Tag Archives: Powershell
Powershell: Getting monitor info
Today I got a request from a colleague of mine that was doing inventory: What are the make, model, serial number and purchase date of your monitors? Seeing as this wasn’t something I had readily in my head I had … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Powershell
Tagged Get-WmiObject, Powershell
Powershell and the HPE 3PAR REST API
Lately, I’ve had the pleasure of using Powershell to automate some of the basic tasks we do on our HPE 3PAR systems: creating volumes, adding them to volume sets, exporting them and so on. Since my experience with REST APIs … Continue reading
Posted in HPE 3PAR, Powershell
Tagged 3PAR, boot lun, HPE 3PAR, Invoke-RestMethod, Powershell, REST
Powershell: Creating strong passwords
A tweet from @JanEgilRing caught my eye this morning, it was showing how you can use powershell to create passwords. The link in the tweet pointed here: http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2016/05/23/one-liner-random-password-generator.aspx Seeing that line and realizing how simple it was, it got me thinking on how I … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Powershell
Tagged password, Powershell, regex
UCSD: Mapping EMC VNX LUNs to an ESXi cluster
I have been struggling for quite some time with mapping luns from our vnx 5600 to entire clusters in our vCenter. We used to utilize a custom workflow a consultant wrote for us, but that workflow got borked after an … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, UCS Director
Tagged CUSD, EMC VNX, Powershell, Powershell agent, PSA, UCS Director
UCSD: Grabbing a string returned from a Powershell task
My last post described how to get around some issues with using Powershell tasks in workflows. While that post surely enables you to uilize powershell to do stuff for you, what about if you want Powershell to grab stuff for … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, UCS Director
Tagged CUSD, Powershell, Powershell agent, PSA, UCS Director
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