VMware PowerCLI rocks
Its pretty easy to see where I stand on PowerCLI from the headline on this entry. Disclaimer, I haven’t used it extensively, but I can already see the why VMware has chosen to embrace PowerCLI for...
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PowerCLI One-liners for Storage Problems
Automation has been a huge part of my recent learning curve. I’ve spend a considerable amount of time working with tools to decrease my manual administration time within our VMware environment. One...
View ArticleReload inaccessible or invalid VM’s with this PowerCLI one-liner
Can I let you in on a secret? Although I blog to help others through my own experiences and troubleshooting, one of the other things I do is use my blog as my own personal knowledge base. Once I’ve...
View ArticleBook Review: Learning PowerCLI
Whether you’re a new user or an advanced user, Learning PowerCLI by Robert van den Nieuwendijk is a fantastic reference to VMware PowerCLI. van den Nieuwendijk covers all the basics to get PowerCLI...
View ArticleEnabling Change Block Tracking (CBT) with PowerCLI Script
Change Block Tracking (CBT) is a technology in VMware used to record all the changed data within a VMDK file so that when backup software runs incremental backups, it knows exactly what has changed and...
View ArticleIntroducing ‘PowerCLI Cookbook’, the step-by-step guide to adopting PowerCLI
If you’ve noticed that my blog posts have been a bit light over the last year, I am happy to finally tell why. Last week, my first book published. It was many months in the making, a lot of effort...
View ArticleFrom SearchVMware.com: How PowerCLI fit one admin’s VMware automation needs
I recently had the opportunity to talk with TechTarget’s Tom Walat, site editor for SearchVMware.com, about PowerCLI and writing the PowerCLI Cookbook. That conversation is featured in SearchVMware’s...
View ArticlePower disguised as command line – 10 reasons SysAdmins should learn...
I’m a big proponent of learning PowerShell as an administrator, engineer or any other practitioner role. And I think you should learn it. It is the path to the future. The pipeline. I’ve written a...
View ArticleReload inaccessible or invalid VM’s with this PowerCLI one-liner
Can I let you in on a secret? Although I blog to help others through my own experiences and troubleshooting, one of the other things I do is use my blog as my own personal knowledge base. Once I’ve...
View ArticleBook Review: Learning PowerCLI
Whether you’re a new user or an advanced user, Learning PowerCLI by Robert van den Nieuwendijk is a fantastic reference to VMware PowerCLI. van den Nieuwendijk covers all the basics to get PowerCLI...
View ArticleEnabling Change Block Tracking (CBT) with PowerCLI Script
Change Block Tracking (CBT) is a technology in VMware used to record all the changed data within a VMDK file so that when backup software runs incremental backups, it knows exactly what has changed and...
View ArticleIntroducing ‘PowerCLI Cookbook’, the step-by-step guide to adopting PowerCLI
If you’ve noticed that my blog posts have been a bit light over the last year, I am happy to finally tell why. Last week, my first book published. It was many months in the making, a lot of effort...
View ArticleFrom SearchVMware.com: How PowerCLI fit one admin’s VMware automation needs
I recently had the opportunity to talk with TechTarget’s Tom Walat, site editor for SearchVMware.com, about PowerCLI and writing the PowerCLI Cookbook. That conversation is featured in SearchVMware’s...
View ArticlePower disguised as command line – 10 reasons SysAdmins should learn...
I’m a big proponent of learning PowerShell as an administrator, engineer or any other practitioner role. And I think you should learn it. It is the path to the future. The pipeline. I’ve written a...
View ArticleReclaim dirty free space in Windows VMs by comparing Windows to vSphere...
Windows is dirty. It has always been dirty. It is an OS that doesn’t do a good job of cleaning up after itself. And so, you may have a lot of unused, dirty space consumed in your environment that...
View ArticleFind Orphaned VMs in vCenter with PowerCLI
After a failure or event with data loss, its possible for vCenter to lose a VM. When this happens, the VM is marked as orphaned. Orphaned VMS will exist as a stub in vCenter and you can right click...
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Automating VMware Tools upgrades on VM reboot with PowerCLI
When it comes to improving the health of an existing vSphere environment, one of the first lifts that you should try is upgrading all of the VMware Tools to the current version of your ESXi hosts. A...
View ArticleA simple script to update ESXi host DNS settings in PowerCLI
Not long ago, we updated our internal DNS to use Cisco Umbrella (aka OpenDNS). During the migration, we needed to update all of the DNS settings on our ESXi hosts. There is a built-in cmdlet called...
View ArticleInvestigating and setting syslog settings for ESXi with #PowerCLI
Persistent logs in ESXi are useful in all troubleshooting situations. Earlier this week, I posted about vRealize Log Insight and as part of the quick-start of that product, it can set remote syslog...
View ArticleBook Review: Learning PowerCLI
Whether you’re a new user or an advanced user, Learning PowerCLI by Robert van den Nieuwendijk is a fantastic reference to VMware PowerCLI. van den Nieuwendijk covers all the basics to get PowerCLI...
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