On my GitHub page (link ), I uploaded a PowerShell script that identifies all the active parent VM and snapshot per VMware Horizon pool. The parent VM is also known as Golden image. With this script, you can quickly identify what parent VMs and snapshots are in use.
Continue ReadingVIBSearch 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 a Hyper-V cluster are normally a lot of NICs involved. Identifying the right can be challenging. It is important to consequently label your network adapters on all the servers in the Hyper-V cluster. In Windows Server 2012 there are PowerShell Cmdlets that can be used for identifying NICs. Once …
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 ReadingHere a new PowerShell report-event script. figure 1. Output reports-event script You can specify multiple servers in a text file, select how many hours from the current time to look in the eventlog and e-mail the HTML file after generation. The following syntax can be used: get-content …
Continue ReadingThe winners of the VI Toolkit scripting contest are announced: The first prize goes to LucD Dekens for his Guest Provisioning System script. The Second prize goes to tzamora for his VMware Infrastructure Power Documenter script. The Third prize goes to Dan Baskette with his PowerVDI script. The …
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