Powershell and PowerCli Enthusiast
During the last maintenance window at work, we starting having issues with vCenter, so to resolve the issues vCenter services were restarted. After the vCenter services came back up, I noticed one of the servers on a host had lost it connection. To make things worse, the datastore for the VM changed from the human readable format to location name.… Continue reading
I was recently asked to gather the vMotion IPs for all of the hosts in our environment. We have about 80 or so VM Hosts, so this was a job for PowerCli. Below is the script.
First there needs to be a place to put all of the information that is going to be collected. … Continue reading
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
After finishing the last post and starting to use it after limited testing I found that my script wasn’t filtering out the Datastores as expected. This information was presented to me via our storage team. So I have went back to the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) to resolved my issues.
This is now how to properly get the unused RDM LUNs from your VM cluster.… Continue reading
This page has been updated. Please visit http://notesofascripter.com/?p=23 for the updated script.
Since my last post was about RDMs, lets continue the discusion. In my work environment we have been consolidating our VMware platform.
So we have been moving VMs with RDMs attached from one cluster to another. So its been a messy process, and we haven’t had the time to
clean up behind ourselves. … Continue reading