Alan Renouf – vCheck version 5 March 27, 2010
Posted by Matt Roblin in Uncategorized.add a comment
Alan has added some great extras to the vCheck so check them out here – if you don’t have this turning up in your inbox every morning you will be missing something.
http://www.virtu-al.net/featured-scripts/vcheck/
- Comments
- Automatic searching for log warnings
It now reports all this:
- General Details
- Number of Hosts
- Number of VMs
- Number of Templates
- Number of Clusters
- Number of Datastores
- Number of Active VMs
- Number of Inactive VMs
- Number of DRS Migrations for the last days
- Snapshots over x Days old
- Datastores with less than x% free space
- VMs created over the last x days
- VMs removed over the last x days
- VMs with No Tools
- VMs with CD-Roms connected
- VMs with Floppy Drives Connected
- VMs with CPU ready over x%
- VMs with over x amount of vCPUs
- List of DRS Migrations
- Hosts in Maintenance Mode
- Hosts in disconnected state
- NTP Server check for a given NTP Name
- NTP Service check
- vmkernel warning messages over the last x days
- VC Error Events over the last x days
- VC Windows Event Log Errors for the last x days with VMware in the details
- VC VMware Service details
- VMs stored on datastores attached to only one host
- VM active alerts
- Cluster Active Alerts
- If HA Cluster is set to use host datastore for swapfile, check the host has a swapfile location set
- Host active Alerts
- Dead SCSI Luns
- VMs with over x amount of vCPUs
- vSphere check: Slot Sizes
- vSphere check: Outdated VM Hardware (Less than V7)
- VMs in Inconsistent folders (the name of the folder is not the same as the name)
- VMs with high CPU usage
- Guest disk size check
- Host over committing memory check
- VM Swap and Ballooning
- ESXi hosts without Lockdown enabled
- ESXi hosts with unsupported mode enabled
- General Capacity information based on CPU/MEM usage of the VMs
- vSwitch free ports
- Disk over commit check
- Host configuration issues
- VCB Garbage (left snapshots)
- HA VM restarts and resets
- Inaccessible VMs
Alan Renouf – Changing a VM’s I.P. settings with PowerCli February 7, 2010
Posted by Matt Roblin in Uncategorized.add a comment
A great use of the Invoke-VMScript in the latest version of PowerCli, Alan details how to alter or set a VM’s I.P. settings without logging onto the server.
http://www.virtu-al.net/2010/02/05/powercli-changing-a-vm-ip-address-with-invoke-vmscript/
Hal Rottenberg – PowerCLI Tip: Speed up your login January 24, 2010
Posted by Matt Roblin in PowerCli.add a comment
A very useful tip on how to speed up logging into PowerCli …
Jase McCarty – Update VMware Windows Guest DNS and WINS through PowerCLI January 24, 2010
Posted by Matt Roblin in PowerCli, PowerShell.add a comment
More clever use of the Invoke-VMScript function in PowerCli, allowing manipulation of IP settings for Windows ..
Arnim van Lieshout – PowerCLI: Get WMI info from isolated guests January 21, 2010
Posted by Matt Roblin in Uncategorized.add a comment
A really useful script on how to execute scripts within VM’s via PowerCli:
http://www.van-lieshout.com/2010/01/powercli-get-wmi-info-from-isolated-guests/
TechnoDrone – Migrate vCentre using PowerCli January 20, 2010
Posted by Matt Roblin in PowerCli, PowerShell.add a comment
An absolutely fantastic script from Maish Saidel-Keesing to migrate your vCentre settings from one server to another ..
http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2010/01/vcenter-powercli-migration-script.html
VMDEV.INFO – Using the vSphere CloneVM API to create linked clones, clones from snapshots, and every other kind of clone January 15, 2010
Posted by Matt Roblin in Uncategorized.add a comment
Really interesting stuff on how to clone from snapshots etc. Check it out here:
http://www.vmdev.info/?p=202
Jonathan Medd – One Cmdlet at a Time Series January 10, 2010
Posted by Matt Roblin in PowerShell.add a comment
Jonathan has been posting these for a while and they are a perfect way of familiarising yourself with PowerShell cmdlets in bitesized chunks.
PowerCli 4 U1 slow startup January 10, 2010
Posted by Matt Roblin in PowerCli.add a comment
There is a useful post from VMware on U1 of PowerCli being slow to startup – you can check it out here:
http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2010/01/troubleshooting-slow-startup-with-powercli-40-u1.html
