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PowerCLI to check compliance?
Although I've written a script to get-compliance on all my guests, is there a command to push the 'check status' button for me on all my guests, or maybe a better way than going folder by folder? I've...
View ArticlePowerCLI Installation Issues on Server 2016
New Windows 2016 server, installed .NET 4.7.2 as specified in the prerequisites. Getting numerous errors about dll's unable to be loaded. Server is off-net so I cannot use the install-module command....
View ArticleAssign vminc to Specific Uplink on VDS
Hi All, I have requirement to assign vminic1 to Uplink 2 on my VDS.. vminic0 is assigned to VSS vSwitch0 and before migrating VMkernels to the VDS (via Powershell) I need to have an active Uplink on...
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Affinity / anti affinity rules check on vCenter 6.5 and ESXi host 6.5
I'm in need a of powercli script that helps to determine whether affinity rules are configured on any cluster or host. TIA
View ArticleThe server did not respond with an encrypted session key within the specified...
I have a script that clones any number of VMs in my master lab to different demo labs. I am using powershell workflows to run the cloning operation in parallel. Once the clone is complete; I try to...
View ArticleEmpty field annotation
Hi All, I was wondering why the following is giving back which VM's are having an empty value: Get-VM | Get-Annotation | Where-Object {$_.name -eq 'Application'} | Where-Object {$_.value -like $null} |...
View ArticleThe server '' is not part of a linked mode configuration.
S C:\MyData\PowerCLI> connect-viserver tst-vcenter3 -alllinkedconnect-viserver : 2020-07-24 9:10:09 AM Connect-VIServer The server 'tst-vcenter3' is not part of a linked...
View Articlecmdlet move-vm to migrate to another dc and folder vm
Hello, We are in the process to migrate all our VMs to a new datacenter (on vcsa 6.7)We are facing two problems. One is that using move-vm we have to assign the new cluster and the new vsan datastore....
View ArticlePowercli Get-Tagassignment command
So I have a question about the data being returned by my script and I hope someone can line me out pretty quickly.This line of code '$az = (Get-tagassignment -Entity $Cluster -Category 'Availability...
View Articlepowercli find bios or efi boot option
Trying to get a list of all my VMs and whether they boot BIOS or EFI using PowerCLI 5.5 release 1. Doesn't seem to be in ExtensionData.Config.BootOptions like I'd expect and I'm having an awful time...
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Single row for capacity disk
Hi guys, I customized a script for VM inventory for my requirement. Its working fine. But depending on the number of disk in vm , I get that amount of rows as result. For example: If VM1 has 2...
View ArticleESX host per-vSwitch NIC status report - excluding unpatched NICs
I'm writing a small script to check the ESX host network connections and flag up if a NIC connection goes down. A small issue is that the physical hosts have 8-10 NICs so I want to specify which NICs...
View ArticleLooking for a PowerCLI script to get the ESXi hosts all the NIC driver and...
Looking for a PowerCLI script to get the output of ESXi hosts all the NIC driver and firmware version (ESXi OS 6.0 and 6.5). Script should have ability to capture the host names from a input file and...
View ArticleIncorrect Product Forwarding Class on vDS When Upgraded via PowerCLI
I thought I would share some interesting behaviour on vDS configuration when you perform the vDS upgrade to 6.6.0 via PowerCLI, the following post I wrote explain the issue in detail....
View ArticleHow To Change vmk0 IP
I'm trying to run the "Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -IP 'new-ip-address' -VirtualAdapter vmk0" without any success. Can someone provide guidance as to what is required just to change the IP? My ultimate...
View ArticleFind the VM tools status
Hello Guys i am looking for script which can send daily with VMware tools info ( current/up to date,out dated,3rd party etc) .Is it possible ? if yes ,any help would appreciated. (i have 9 vCenters and...
View ArticleUnable to get Folder Name using Get-View
Hi, I am unable to get the Folder Name using the below script using the Get-View. Please help. ScriptGet-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Guest |Select...
View ArticleScript to manage vCenter Roles and Permissions across multiple vCenters
Hello Friends I am looking for a script that can manage the vCenter Roles and Permissions, we have multiple VC’s , so the Roles and Permissions need to be created on each of these VC’s any new VC’s...
View ArticlePower cli script to get the ESXi count per vCenter server
Hi All, I am looking for a script to get the total ESXi count from multiple VCs , requirements are as follows 1. Input file with all the VC names2. Script should find the total ESXi count per VC and...
View ArticleProblem exporting ALL VM's and details to CSV
Hi Guys, As after reading a bunch of threads here and modifying PS examples provided I've made a script which works pretty well for me and exports all my VM's with a bunch of relevant info I need. But...
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