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By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Snapshot Management with Power CLI

Command to list the  properties of snapshot  using  power cli get-vm | get-snapshot | format-list Description Created Quiesced PowerState VM VMId Parent ParentSnapshotId ParentSnapshot Children SizeMB IsCurrent IsReplaySupported ExtensionData Id Name Uid Generate complete snapshot inventory with few details  ...

06/02/2018
Published 3 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Power CLI Command to List Connected Disks to ESXi Hosts

Get connected disk details including name , Multipathing , LunType  of all ESXI HOSTS in vCenter Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk User below command to export all the details to CSV Get-VMHost | Get-ScsiLun -LunType disk |export-csv C:\diskinfo.csv Get connected disk details...

05/02/2018
Published 3 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Script to List Virtual Machine HW ,VM Tools Version , Tools Status

Below Script will get  virtualmachine hardware version , tools version , Tools status , Tools version status . Connect-VIServer -Server VM-VC.TEST.COM  -User  root -Password ******** Get-VM | Select @{N=”VMName”; E={$_.Name}}, @{N=”HardwareVersion”; E={$_.Extensiondata.Config.Version}}, @{N=”ToolsVersion”; E={$_.Extensiondata.Config.Tools.ToolsVersion}}, @{N=”ToolsStatus”; E={$_.Extensiondata.Summary.Guest.ToolsStatus}}, @{N=”ToolsVersionStatus”; E={$_.Extensiondata.Summary.Guest.ToolsVersionStatus}}, @{N=”ToolsRunningStatus”; E={$_.Extensiondata.Summary.Guest.ToolsRunningStatus}} | Export-Csv ...

30/01/2018
Published 3 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Script For Datastore Utilization

This script is very useful to generate the Datastore Utilization of  VMware Infra Save the below script as .PS1 extension  and Run fron vSphere Power CLI ,  Out Put will be saved on  the Location where we mention  , here it...

27/01/2018
Published 3 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Script to List Thin provisioned virtual disks with disk size Info

It is very useful script for system admins to generate list of virtual machines having thin disks with details to CSV format . Connect-VIServer (MyvCenter) -User (My Username)-Password (My Password) $report = @() foreach ($vm in Get-VM){ $view = Get-View $vm if ($view.config.hardware.Device.Backing.ThinProvisioned -eq...

27/01/2018
Published 3 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Script to List VM and associated folder and Datastore name

This script is very useful to identify where the VMs are located on the VMware Infra. Save the below script as .PS1 extension  and Run fron vSphere Power CLI ,  Out Put will be saved on  the Location where we...

27/01/2018
Published 3 weeks ago
By: Rajesh Radhakrishnan

Understand Basic Commands – vSphere Power CLI

After Connecting to vCenter from POwer CLI  Follow below commands List Datacenter Inventory > Get-Datacenter Name —- DATACENTER NAME  List Cluster Inventory > Get-Cluster Name           HAEnabled  HAFailover DrsEnabled DrsAutomationLevel                ...

27/01/2018
Published 3 weeks ago