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Alan Renouf – vCheck version 5

Matt Roblin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:48:04 +0000

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/

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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vSphere check: Outdated VM Hardware (Less than V7)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

Matt Roblin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:22:58 +0000

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

Matt Roblin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:30:53 +0000

A very useful tip on how to speed up logging into PowerCli …

http://halr9000.com/article/867

Jase McCarty – Update VMware Windows Guest DNS and WINS through PowerCLI

Matt Roblin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:41:35 +0000

More clever use of the Invoke-VMScript function in PowerCli, allowing manipulation of IP settings for Windows ..

http://www.jasemccarty.com/blog/?p=477

Arnim van Lieshout – PowerCLI: Get WMI info from isolated guests

Matt Roblin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:20:49 +0000

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

Matt Roblin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:36:01 +0000

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

Matt Roblin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:27:12 +0000

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

Matt Roblin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:12:25 +0000

Jonathan has been posting these for a while and they are a perfect way of familiarising yourself with PowerShell cmdlets in bitesized chunks.

http://www.jonathanmedd.net/category/cmdlet-series

PowerCli 4 U1 slow startup

Matt Roblin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:59:07 +0000

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

Technodrone – Permissioning with PowerCli

Matt Roblin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:20:08 +0000

Very cool bit of info from Maish Saidel-Keesing about how to set permissions for objects in VMware from PowerCli.

Check it out here