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Get Number of VM CPU and Cores
Hi I've tried the following but cannot get the number of VM CPU and Cores. What am I doing wrong?
View ArticleSetting svga.vramSize with New-AdvancedSetting
HiI got a problem setting the vram size of the video Card. I'm using PowerCLI 6.5 lattest release. If i type "New-AdvancedSetting -Entity $vm -Name svga.vramSize -Value 32768000 -confirm:$false"...
View Article-Finish parameter in Get-Stat (not getting any output)
I am trying to get historical data for VMs from ESXi using PowerCLI. When I use the following cmdlet: Get-Stat -Entity IPMVMCloudVM -stat cpu.usage.average -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-25) -Finish...
View ArticleReport Generation of VMs
Hi All, Currently we are trying to generating report on VMs allocation with respect to Teams. Each VM will be having a custom attribute as Team and corresponding team name is entered. In below example...
View ArticlePowerCLI: Enable / Disable Alarm Actions on Hosts / Clusters
Hello All, I have done some serious googling, and am about to accept that it is not possible through PowerCLI.But I wanted to make a last effort by asking you guys. For ESXi host maintenance, I want to...
View ArticleEdit Alarm Action E-mail Recipients
I was wondering if anybody had a script for PowerCLI/vCenter 5.5 to mass edit the e-mail recipients under "Configuration" for 'Send a notification email' under Alarm->Actions in vCenter.I looked...
View ArticleVMware-PowerCLI-6.5.0-4624819 returning partial results
We recently migrated from 5.5 to 6.5; I can access the Web and HTML5 clients and see all my 10 clusters, hosts, VMs etc. I have however just tried to run a script and noticed that via PowerCLI I see...
View ArticlePowerCLI 6.5 problems
Hi all, After much agonizing, I decided to do a PowerCLI upgrade to 6.5 with the fancy new install-module install Modules install just fine, but connecting to the vCenter, however, does not work. It...
View ArticleScheduled maintenance mode script with email status report
Hello Guys, I need your help, i need a powercli script to put some esxi host in maintenance mode at a specifique Date/Hour. Don't know if we can do it with powercli or if i need to use the windows...
View ArticleChange scsi controller to ide controller
Hi guys, I'm such a newbie in powershell as in powercli :-) I need to change the "scsi controller 0" to "ide controller 0" of the first disk.... any ideas to perform this magical move ? i only...
View ArticleGet List of VMs, Datastores and Folder name per Cluster
Hello!! I'm hoping someone can assist me with a PowerCLI script that can pull the subject info into a txt or csv file. In an effort to get our environment cleaned up before our next DR exercise with...
View ArticlePowerCLI Script to pull out vCenter Cluster Configuration
Hi, I had been lot of documents/posts/blogs but I am still unable to find correct script to pull out cluster configuration. My infra has vCenter 6.5 hosting ESXi 6.5. All I want is inventory of what...
View ArticleIs it possible to extract LunID's from datastore?
Recently I get a task to define which datastores (in our virtual environment) have StorageIOControl option enabled. For example: datastores with replication should have this option enabled and...
View ArticleVM Snapshot with Power shell cli
Hello All I do not have much knowledge of Powershell but I'm trying to create a snapshot in vcloud.link-connect.com with below script but I'm getting an error as term "Connect-CIServer is not...
View ArticleImported json - how do I specify a dup object name
I was able to pull in a json with invoke-webrequest.When I look at $x.y.z.ipaddress, it displays two values. one is our public and one backup. How can I assign the public IP to $PubIP There is an...
View ArticleIssues with DeployRule cmdlets - Not authenticated.
Hi All, I'm trying to automate Auto Deploy Rules using Powershell. All the PowerCLI cmdlets are there to perform the tasks that I need and the script works perfectly but only the first time, If i run...
View ArticleSelect-Object output to a variable
Hello, anytime I fill a variable with the output of a calculated property and then I use that variable later on in a script, instead of simply getting the value of the variable I also get @{} around...
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using Vsphere Script or powerCLI is there a simple way to keep current Esxi...
First, to be clear the reason i'm putting this here as i know this will keep happening in future with vmware future releases. there's plenty of blogs with their workarounds which are either temporary...
View ArticleFetch few details of a Virtual Machine with PowerCLI
Hello everyone,I need to fetch few information from virtual machines with powerCLI like: Load average of VMTop Processes of VMEstablished Connections of VM using Get-EsxCli and Get-EsxTop I can get...
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