New version of the Powershell Healthcheck script released

Posted by Duncan Epping in January 6th, 2009 | no comment 
Published in Management & Automation, Server

Ivo Beerens just published a new version of his Powershell Healthcheck script. The script will report the following in a nicely formatted html file:

VMware ESX server Hardware and version
VMware vCenter version
Cluster information
VMware statistics
Active Snapshots
CDROMs connected to VMs
Floppy drives connected to VMs
Datastores Information such as free space
RDM information
VM information such as VMware tools version,  processor and [...]

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Add RDM Size info to VI Client using Powershell

Posted by Duncan Epping in December 19th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Management & Automation

Hugo keeps on going writing and updating his powershell scripts! This time Hugo created a script that adds a custom field to your VC with RDM disk size info:
In the VMware VI Toolkit Communities, a request was made for a similar script that adds the total size of all Raw Device Mappings (RDMs) on a [...]

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Add Custom Fields to VI Client with Powershell Part 2!

Posted by Duncan Epping in December 17th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Management & Automation, Server

Yesterday I blogged about the Powershell script that Hugo Peeters created for adding a snapshot Column to your VI Client with Powershell. Hugo used a custom field to show this data and I wrote the following:
Some of you might say that this lacks the detail one would love to see within vCenter. Well knowing Hugo [...]

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Snapshot info within vCenter?

Posted by Duncan Epping in December 16th, 2008 | 2 comments 
Published in Management & Automation

Hugo Peeters has done it again. He created another very usefull script. This time Hugo created a script which adds a “custom field” within vCenter with Snapshot information, the amount of snapshots that is.
Some of you might say that this lacks the detail one would love to see within vCenter. Well knowing Hugo my guess [...]

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HAL check?!

Posted by Duncan Epping in November 14th, 2008 | 5 comments 
Published in Management & Automation

My post about reverting your HAL triggered Alanrenouf to create a short, but very cool script that compares the amount of cpu’s to the windows HAL you’ve chosen. This way you will know within a second if you need to change the HAL of any of your vm’s! Cool stuff:

connect-viserver MYVISERVER
$myCol = @()
ForEach ($VM in [...]

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Adding users + roles with powershell

Posted by Duncan Epping in November 6th, 2008 | 1 comment 
Published in Server

So you can easily add users with useradd command we talked about. But there’s still a problem, you can’t add user-roles to the user you’re creating. You still need the VirtualCenter client to do that. My colleague Horst Mundt read my post and was so kind to email me a powershell script he created that can [...]

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Update: Quick Migration

Posted by Duncan Epping in October 3rd, 2008 | 1 comment 
Published in Management & Automation

A couple of days ago I wrote about the Quick Migration script that Mike D wrote with Powershell. Like I said, it should be possible to integrate the script with VC. Well this has been done by Dennis of Icomasoft. Icomasoft recently released the Powershell Plugin for VirtualCenter. And with this plugin you can easily [...]

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