Batch file arguments count
Playing around today with a batch file and needed to work out the total number of arguments that have been passed. [bat] SET /A ArgCount=0 for %%a in (%*) do […]
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VM Disks and Total Size
How many disks (vmdks) and what is the total configured size of these Virtual Machines (VMs)? Currently moving a large number of VMs across datastores using vSphere’s Storage VMotion, now […]
Remove all Connected CD Drives and IsoPaths
The following script gets all the VMs that have connected CD ROM drives and in addition it also picks up VMs that may not have CDs in a connected or […]
Settings vSwitch Security Policies in an ESX scripted install
This is an old post that I never really finished and now it seems a little pointless since everything is moving to ESXi however we still have 3.0 and 3.5 […]
Get-DatastoreStats
Having set up a development lab environment for a project team they began having issues related to storage due to not seemingly understanding that if you put too many Virtual […]
Why did my VM spontaneously suspend?
Had an unusual question today from a user, who questioned why his VM became suspended. After a quick internal thought, because you probably clicked suspend, he advised that it occurred […]
Add one minute Batch vs VBScript vs Powershell
Here is an interesting comparison between scripting languages. I was playing with getting the time 1 minute into the future in order to set up a scheduled command. So I […]
My Powershell Function Help does not display
Whilst attempting to add help information to one of my functions this morning, using the new V2 features which allows you to add multi line information, in the same format […]
Add a VMXNet3 nic to the same vPG as the first NIC.
This script adds a vmxnet3 nic to a VM to be on the same virtual Port Proup (vPG) as the first NIC attached to the VM. This came about because […]
Add a VMXNet3 NIC to VM attached to a vDS vPG
As part of an automated deployment of VMs I needed the ability to add a NIC that is attached to VMware vDS and attach it to a particular port group. […]