[PowerCLI] Moving VMs into resource pools based on a tag
A script which automates the assignment of VMs into resource pools based on tags. Has some added functionality to make sure all VMs have tags.
[PowerCLI] Assigning Tags based on VM Notes
Addressing the problem with not finding VMs based on information in the notes when using the HTML5 client.
[PowerCLI] Releasing my vCheck Fork
I have been working on a lot of improvements to the popular PowerCLI HTML Framework script "vCheck Daily Report" which was originally developed by Alan Renouf and has been enhanced by the VMware Code Community over the past few years. Development of new features has slowed down quite a bit over the last year or so. Incidentally the original vCheck...
[Github] Copying my scripts to Github
I have been blogging for almost 4 years now. After a slow start back in 2014 and some quiet months every now and then I have published quite a lot of powershell code on here over the years. I have decided to make this code more accessible to everyone who wants to use it and publish it all again...
[PowerCLI] Change Admission Control Percentages
I was recently asked by a customer to explain some of the vSphere 6.5 features that would be interesting for his environment. I knew the environment so I pointed out some things that 6.5 does better than the currently installed 6.0. One of those things I mentioned was the automated adjustment of the resource percentage in the HA admission...
[PowerCLI] Getting the Usage of a cluster
Our customers sometimes call us in to check their environment. Because this happens quite often we created a basic checklist on what checks we do when we start. One of those checks is a cluster-usage assessment. This helps us further down the road when advising the customer in ways to improve the resilience of his infrastructure. (more…)
[PowerCLI] Reporting the duration of Snapshots
One of our customers had a problem with VMs losing network connectivity while the backup was running. Their backup solution was based on VMware snapshots. After the end-users complained about a service not being responsive they investigated and found out that during the creation of the snapshot they lose the pings. In response they wanted to check how long the...
[PowerCLI] Checking ESXi Hosts Advanced Settings against VMware’s default
Over the years and releases from VMware the best practices change sometimes. In the early days we had to set a lot of advanced settings to get a desired feature to run as it should or to make the VMware Admin's life a little easier. The thing about these settings is that you should check them with every release. Are...
[PowerCLI] Adding a disk to a VM
Recently I stumbled upon a stubborn vSphere Client at a customer. It just would not let me add a disk a VM. The error message was very generic (and was in the end fixed with a reboot) so I had to find a alternative: Here comes PowerCLI. (more…)