At work we recently had a health check performed on our virtual environment. When the results came back, and I noticed a trend with our legacy VM hosts. Particularly where we didn’t follow the same standards as we did on the newer hosts. The issue I’ll be talking about, is renaming the local datastores. So now is the time to apply the same standards across the entire environment.… Continue reading
PowerShell and Plink to Update Avamar Proxy Timeout Settings
When colleagues in the office have a repeatable process that can and should be scripted, I’m the person they seek out. This particular time it was a storage admin looking to see what could be done with verifying a setting in a file on a Linux appliance and changing the setting if it is not set to the preferred value.… Continue reading
PowerShell to Remove Users from Cross Domain Groups
“How would you remove over 1,000 users from 10 different AD groups?” Another engineer on my team asked me this, and my answer without a beat, PowerShell.
The work environment has many different domains and several forests. So this shouldn’t be a difficult process. So I started with the simple approach, of getting the Users.txt… Continue reading
When Get-ContentLibraryItem Fails
In my work environment we have made strives to simply our VMware environment. One of them is using the content library for templates and ISO files. We do this so we make sure the everyone is using the most current golden image. Also with the content library you can sync them from primary site to secondary site without issues.… Continue reading
Automate Removal of VM Snapshots
Automate Removal of VM Snapshots
When I come up with an idea for a blog post, normally I don’t review what ideas I have already wrote about. I should because I would have noticed another post about snapshots I wrote earlier this year. This post is different as it has more cowbell, err automation. Everybody loves automation right? … Continue reading
PowerCLI to list Template Info
We are starting to decommission the legacy VMware hosts in my work environment. Normally not a big deal or script for a task like this, but give me enough time I found a need. Templates. So you can easily find templates either using the H5 client or PowerCLI.
Get-Template
This cmdlet displays a list of the template VMs that are in the environment, but it doesn’t say where they are located.… Continue reading
PowerShell and Math Homework
My 10 year daughter asked me to check her math homework tonight. Math was my best subject in school, but that was a long time ago. The assignment that she had was to find if several of numbers where divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 5. I started to look at it this and said that I could write a computer script to check the answers.… Continue reading
My 10 year daughter asked me to check her math homework tonight. Math was my best subject in school, but that was a long time ago. The assignment that she had was to find if several of numbers where divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 5. I started to look at it this and said that I could write a computer script to check the answers.… Continue reading
How to add a VM to Content Library using PowerCLI
This task sounds very simple. Target the VM, then import to the primary content library for replication to the subordinate libraries. This task can be accomplished right now with a few clicks in the GUI. I’m not a GUI kind of person, I like the mash the keys to get stuff done. So after a lot of research, I found that the PowerCLI commands to perform this function just don’t exist at this point.… Continue reading
Generating VM Tags with PowerCLI
Generating VM Tags with PowerCLI
With the our new infrastructure upgrade it also included an upgrade to our backup solution. So we now have EMC Avamar for backups, and with this it means a chance to architect the backup solution the best possible way. So during the initial stage, I worked closely with our storage team to get the method that they chose to work. … Continue reading
PowerCLI to Generate Nested VM Folder Structure
PowerCLI to Generate Nested VM Folder Structure
We are currently starting to plan for a disaster recovery test, and the first part is configuring Site Recovery Manager (SRM). We are still in the middle of the infrastructure replacement, so we are starting from scratch with everything. So for SRM to work the best we need to have identical folder structures in both locations.… Continue reading