I was tasked with writing a script to find a single registry key on all of the server for a domain that my team manages. So after getting the key that we need to know the value of, I put a script together. The script will first check to see if the server is online, and if it is then the scripts looks at the registry to find the key and records the value. … Continue reading
Author: stuart
Revisiting the PowerShell Profile
I’ve posted about the PowerShell profile before but I didn’t really go in depth on it, so I wanted to revisit the subject to make sure that I address some of the points that I may have missed.
To find your PowerShell profile location, you can use PowerShell to list it.
This will bring back the directory %UserProfile%\Documents\WindowsPowerShell. … Continue reading
Using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
I’m just starting to scratch the surface with Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC). This seems to be the proper way to accurately configure multiple servers with the identical configuration. Using DSC (Desired State Configuration) to configure servers is as simple as generating a base template that you want to use to setup the servers, and then run it against a list or single server.… Continue reading
Building a Home Lab for PowerCli Testing
After taking the PowerCli HOL from VMware, I been thinking of putting together a home lab. I been reading a lot of information about
others bloggers using Mini PCs- such as the Intel NUCs, Mac Minis, and even custom built whitebox servers. Unfortunately, being a father of 3 kids means I have to be on a tight budget, and at the same time I don’t want to skimp and have a under powered home lab. … Continue reading
Vote for the Top vBlog 2016
This is the first year that I’ve been included in the running for Top vBlog. It feels good to be on the list with all of the other great virtualization blogs from around then web. This voting is taking place at vSphere-Land.com, which is ran by Eric Siebert. The polls are currently open and looking for the Top 25 vBlogs of 2016.… Continue reading
VMware PowerCLI Hands-on-Learning Review
Have you been wanting to learn PowerCLI but don’t have a test environment to practice with out the fear of breaking live production? That is where this hands-on-learning (HOL) lab from VMware can come in handy. I personally worked through this HOL and found that the information that was provide to be very thorough to help with beginners wanting to start with PowerCLI. … Continue reading
Using PowerCLI to set IP and Update VMware Tools
This is a continuation of my last post, Using PowerCli to Build multiple VMs.
After automating the building of VMs, what’s the sense of having to manually add the IP information or updating the VMware tools? It’s pointless. So we need to add the IP information to the CSV file that was used to build the VMs.… Continue reading
Using PowerCLI to build multiple VMs
My first script that I ever wrote was a script to build VMs. I was the newest member on the team, and i was giving the task of building 50 VMs for a new project that was getting started. It was a very daunting task, due to the completion date to have these 50 VMs to be completed.… Continue reading
PowerCLI to find all VMs with thick provisioned VMDK
In my environment at work we have a policy that we thin provision all new VMs. We had an issue with a datastore that was running out of space, so I starting looking into it and found that several of the VMs on this datastore were set with thick provisioning on the hard drives.
This outputs a list of VMs with the storageformat that is set to thick. … Continue reading
PowerCli to get all VMs on certain Datastores?
From time to time, I get tasked with generating a report of production VMs with specs. This normally wouldn’t be an issue, but we have changed our server naming standard a few times, so we have machines with all sorts of names. The one thing in out environment that hasn’t changed is the datastore naming. We have our datastores split up between non-production and production, and each department has their own.… Continue reading