Powershell and PowerCli Enthusiast
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
As I mentioned in a previous post, we are upgrading our infrastructure and we are using Dell EMC VxBlock. So far this upgrade is going fairly smooth, but we are still at the very beginning of the process. So once I found out that the VxBlock was configured to contain UCS hardware, I began looking to see what Cisco had to offer for PowerShell modules to help manage the new hardware that we are getting. … Continue reading
Another of the engineer that I would with came to me with a scripting issue. They had a list of 185 users account that he needed to find if they were members of a list of 6 AD groups. So that is where PowerShell and I come into this issue. … Continue reading
In my work environment we are undertaking a major infrastructure upgrade. We are doing a total refresh of all of the virtual environment, and with this we are also setting up a new vCenter. With this it can get confusing with having multiple PowerShell ISE apps open and which vCenter I’m currently connected. … Continue reading
I was in a meeting today, and was asked, “What is the current virtual to physical CPU ratio?” I didn’t have an answer for this question, so I asked PowerCLI for the answer.
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(get-cluster $ClusterName | Get-vm | Where Powerstate -eq “PoweredOn” | Measure NumCpu -sum).sum / (((Get-cluster $ClusterName | Get-vmhost).extensiondata.summary.hardware… Continue reading
For as long as I know, I have used PowerShell to install Internet Information System (IIS). The method of which I use PowerShell to install the features have changed, but its still PowerShell.
Originally I was given an XML file that was generated, and I would use that to install the features, but once my scripting skills advanced I learned that there were other ways to do it. … Continue reading
While digging through Log Insight on a problem, I found a new one. A large majority of VMhosts were not configured with a proper hostname. This was also backup by the vCheck report that gets generated weekly. The hosts were configured with ‘localhost’ as the hostname, which makes this a huge pain when trying to follow the logs.… Continue reading
One of the admins on my team asked the question to me, “How would I get the gateway information from a list of servers?”
I stopped to ponder this issue, and immediately said, “WMI queries is the way I would do this.”
In my environment PowerShell remoting isn’t configured everywhere, so it wouldn’t be a good option.… Continue reading
During our last maintenance window for our VMware environment, my team updated VMware Tools, hardware and aligned vNUMA. So before we started this work we took snapshots of all of the VMs there were getting the updates. Fast forward a few days, and now we have 600+ snapshots that need to be deleted.… Continue reading
On Monday, was I was excited to find that I received the notice I had been selected as a vExpert for 2018 from the VMware community leader. This was very happy news as this is the 4th year in a row that I have been selected as a vExpert. Its a great honor to be included in this program with the other prestigious members.… Continue reading