vSphere 6.0 Links
vSphere 6.0 has been released for a while now. VMware are currently running a webcast series on a number of topics including: Changes to vCenter Changes to the Web Client […]
PowerCLI
Get-View Regular Key Value Information
Some useful values from PowerCLI Get-View of VMware Virtual Infrastructure for use in scripts. I have also included some example data and notes. I have found that when writing scripts […]
Configure ESX Power Management with PowerCLI
View current Power Management Policy Key ShortName GUI Equivilent 1 static High Performance 2 dynamic Balanced 3 low Low power 4 custom Custom Environmental Information: ESX 5.5
ESX and SNMP
Clear all existing SNMP Trap Targets Set SNMP trap target(s) Note: There is a maximum of three (3) trap targets allowed. See link below Configure SNMP Targets Display the current […]
vmhost Advanced Settings are case sensitive
Configuring some ESX hosts with PowerCLI and was setting syslog to my loginsight server. I kept getting errors advising that the Syslog.Global.LogHost option does not exist. I know this option […]
Cannot load Windows PowerShell snap-in VMware.xxx
So I upgraded to WMF 4.0 to get access to new DSC cmdlets. This seems to have broken the PowerCLI snapins. I usually add the snapins manually or via my […]
VMware PowerCLI Silent Install
How do you do a silent installation of PowerCLI and the VUM snapin? VMware-PowerCLI-5.5.0-1671586.exe /s /qn /w /V”/qr /L*v PowerCLI.log ADDLOCAL=”vCloud”” VMware-UpdateManager-Pscli-5.5.0-1302474.exe /s /qn /w /V”/qr /L*v PowerCLI-VUM.log” Note: ensure […]
How to get unique objects while keeping the whole object
Was using Get-View to get a datastore list and I found that it returns duplicate items. I am pretty sure I do not have some 200+ datastores of the same […]
Speed Comparison – Counting ESX Versions
In this Speed Comparison I am reporting on the number of each ESX version I have in my environment to generate a report like the one below. This table is […]
Speed Comparison – VMHost Models
You may know by now that in PowerCLI there are a couple of ways to get information such as ESX host details using predefined cmdlets such as: There is also […]