VIBSearch is a simple PowerShell script with a GUI that will search for a specified VIB or all the VIBS installed on the ESXi hosts. A VIB stands for vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB). VIBs are used to package and distribute ESXi software such as drivers. The GUI is designed with SAPIEN PowerShell …
Continue ReadingDuring a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Health Check I needed to know the snapshot file sizes for the all the snapshots on the Clustered Shared Volumes (CSVs). The Get-VMCheckpoint Cmdlet does not report the snapshot size. So I create a PowerShell one-liner that displays the following information: …
Continue ReadingLast week I created a simple example of a HealtCheck PowerShell script that connects to Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager and displays information about the Hyper-V hosts and VMs managed by this server. I run the PowerShell script from another Windows Server 2012 host. To make this …
Continue ReadingIn Windows 2008 & Windows2008 R2 there were no official PowerShell Cmdlets available for Hyper-V. This is changed in Windows 2012 and Windows 8. Windows Server 2012 and 8 has 162 or more PowerShell Cmdlets available for Hyper-V. Windows 8 uses PowerShell version 3. Cmdlets are very powerful, …
Continue ReadingThis PowerCLI script will display specified VM settings for all VMs in the vCenter server you specify. If you do an inventory, a health check or need to troubleshoot VMware environment this PowerCLI script can be useful. The following VM settings will be displayed: VMName, Hostname, IP address, OS …
Continue ReadingI made a simple example script using the VMware PowerCLI that can be used to do the post installation configuration of a VMware ESX 4 server. This script does the following things: Connect to VMware ESX server Set the SC memory to 800MB Creates vSwitch2 and add vmnic2 and vmnic3 Add several …
Continue ReadingVMware vCenter version Cluster information (Updated) VMware statistics (New) List the active Snapshots CDROMs connected to VMs Floppy drives connected to VMs Datastores Information such as free space RDM information (New) VM information such as VMware tools version, processor and memory limits VMs …
Continue ReadingOn the PowerGUI website is a new version off VMware PowerPack released. A PowerPack extends the PowerGUI with a set of folders, nodes, links and actions that allow you to manage VMware Infrastructure. With the PowerPack no PowerShell knowledge is needed. The new version(December 19, 2008 (2.0.0) has …
Continue ReadingThe Healthcheck PowerShell script I wrote for the VMware PowerShell scripting contest is on 6th position on the “Top 10 PowerShell scripts that VMware administrators should use” from Eric Siebert. Eric is the administrator of the site VMware-land.com that has the largest VMware link …
Continue ReadingToday I tested the VI Toolkit extensions. The VI Toolkit extensions are cmdlets that makes your life easier. Here are some functions of what the cmdlets can do: The VI toolkit extensions require PowerShell V2 CTP 2 and the VI Toolkit. Example: list all VMs by name and list the size of the snapshots …
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