WARNING This script is obsolete
Had this warning appear this morning when starting Powershell. My first thought was that I haven’t changed anything, in my profile at least. Since I have put in my powershell […]
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VI Client 5.1 silent install using Powershell
From page 16 of Performing a Command-Line Installation of vCenter Server
ISO format dates
I often create file names such as logs with the current date and was tired of having to create the date string for all my scripts, so created these quick […]
Is the cluster this ESX server is in DRS enabled?
Whilst attempting to create a portion of a script to set up and test VMware’s DPM (Distributed Power Management) I found that I needed to find out which cluster the […]
IndexOf is Case Sensitive
Whilst doing some string manipulation recently was having issues getting the correct data, or rather the data I expected. Consider the following: The result is a -1, which is not […]
Launch Perl within PS Console
Running Perl script with parameter from within Powershell Window Whilst doing automated configuration of ESXi4.x I need to install hardware specific bundles for example HP CIM providers. Now the PowerCLI […]
Get Virtual Machine IP Address
How do I get the IP address that is displayed in the VI Client for a Virtual Machine? This is a question that I had today. Caveats: VMware tools must […]
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 […]
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 […]