We're currently neck-deep in migration at the moment, but despite the workload, it's always worth considering what we can do now, that might save us some time and effort later on.
We can use PowerShell to search through the event logs of a machine object ($virtualMachine in the example below) for events which match a specific pattern - in this case powering off a machine. Once we have the event object, we can access the properties of the first object in…
This is based on Carter Shanklin's PowerShell snippets to query VC and ESX build version numbers.
As part of the migration I'm working on, we needed to add a whole bunch of Virtual Port Groups with associated VLANs to the servers. The following script could do this in a few minutes (although Host Profiles would accomplish much the same thing, we're not running Enterprise).
I love it when I have an idea in my head of a script I need to write, and then I run across one that does exactly what I need!
I'm in the middle of preparing for a migration from VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 to vSphere 4 just now (hence the lack of any substantial updates on this blog).
I wrote this today to remove occurrences of the string "Tmpl" anywhere in the name of the template, and then to re-name the template with "Tmpl" as a prefix. It had a higher purpose than keeping everything nice and neat, but it's rather specific to our environment so I won't…
Carter Shanklin has used Microsoft Office Document Imaging Library (MODI) to improve Eric Sloof's script to detect Blue Screens of Death (BSoDs); it now captures the errors and converts them to text.
I got handed a list of around 1,000 servers today, and asked if any of them were part of our VI environment.
One of the nice new features of vSphere 4 is thin provisioning of virtual disks. Thin provisioned (TP) disks will be familiar if you've ever used VMware Workstation where they are used by default, (you need to select Allocate all disk space now to create thick disks).…