PowerCli – ConfigMgr

Using API for Aria OPS Chargeback

From https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudprovider/2024/02/chargeback-integration-into-aria-operations.html: With the introduction of VMware Aria Operations version 8.16, there is a notable transformation in the way Chargeback is handled. In this release, Chargeback undergoes complete integration into VMware Aria Operations. In contrast to previous versions, Chargeback is no longer a standalone application; rather, it has been smoothly…

Testing Script Runtime Service for vSphere – part 2

1 februari 2021 PowerCli Powershell VMware

In the first part of this blog, I installed the Script Runtime Service and checked if it was installed correctly.In this second part, I will give you a walkthrough of how to run a simple script. In order to successfully run a script, you must have some understanding of how…

Testing Script Runtime Service for vSphere – part 1

7 januari 2021 PowerCli Powershell VMware

Last year I tweeted about the introduction of the Script Runtime Service and now I decided to give it a try. The reason for this is that I think this is something we all waited for: a central script host. At first, I thought this was an evolution of the…

Windows Server 2019 customization issue

5 november 2020 PowerCli Solutions VMware

I was asked by a colleague to help him with a problem he had customizing a Windows Server 2019 deployment. He had no problem customizing a Window Server 2016 VM so had no idea what the problem was. The first thing I did was a manual deployment. I created a…

YAMS – Yet Another Migration Script

23 juni 2020 PowerCli Script VMware

I was asked if I could write a script that could be used for moving VMs to another data center location. Sounds easy right? Well, there were some specific requirements that made it a bit more challenging… Downtime for the VMs should be kept to a minimum. Some clusters re-use…

Upgrading ESXi 6.0 hosts with PowerCLI

3 april 2020 PowerCli Powershell Script VMware

The last step in my migration project was to actually upgrade the hosts to a supported version. This means that all hosts are upgraded to 6.7 except for those hosts that are a bit to old and only support 6.5. For the upgrade, I used Update Manager to store the…

Migrating ESXi Hosts to Another vCenter Server

6 maart 2020 PowerCli Script VMware

As part of a migration project, ESXi hosts needed to be migrated to a new vCenter appliance. The Cisco 1000v distributed virtual switch was stripped out and converted to standard switches. So basically it was a matter of disconnecting, and removing the hosts from the old vCenter and adding them…

Migrate Cisco Nexus 1000V to VDS with PowerShell – part 2

15 oktober 2019 PowerCli Powershell Script VMware

In a previous post I talked about the migration of a Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch to a VMware Distributed Virtual Switch. During the testing of the script I ran into some issues that were related to the underlying Cisco platform. But then I already made the decision to do…

Migrate Cisco Nexus 1000V to VDS with PowerShell

9 oktober 2019 PowerCli Powershell Script VMware

With the End of General Support (March 12, 2020) getting closer and closer I was asked to perform a migration and upgrade of a vSphere 6 environment. The plan was to install a new 6.7 VCSA and then migrate the hosts as-is to that new platform. After that the hosts…

Find a datastore or RDM by LUN ID

27 juli 2019 PowerCli Script VMware

Sometimes the storage team wants to clean up their LUNs but they only know the LUN ID. And they ask you, the ESXi admin, where that LUN is used… Not an easy question if you don’t have an administration of your LUNs. You can use the UI and do some…