Script – ConfigMgr

Migrating NSX Distributed Firewall Policies – part 2

In a previous post, I wrote about a toolkit to migrate NSX Distributed Firewall objects like groups and rules. The toolkit consists of five PowerShell scripts that are designed to be run in sequence: However, I’ve created an extra script to handle the migration of services, including the sanitization of…

Migrating NSX Distributed Firewall Policies the Right Way: A PowerShell Toolkit

6 maart 2026 Cloud Foundation NSX Powershell Script Solutions VMware

When our team was handed the task of migrating a large NSX environment (that was migrated several times) to NSX 9, I quickly realized that the built-in tooling wasn’t going to cut it for what we needed. The migration involved hundreds of custom security groups, firewall policies, service definitions, and…

Using PowerShell for Aria OPS API

8 juli 2025 Cloud Foundation Powershell Script VMware

In a previous article, I wrote about accessing the Aria OPS Chargeback API. In that article, I used Postman for testing the API calls. I also wrote that I would convert those Postman API calls into a Powershell script. So here goes… The steps to generate a bill and to…

Using API for Aria OPS Chargeback

11 april 2025 Cloud Director PowerCli Powershell Script VMware

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…

Reporting on your Windows Server backup

18 januari 2021 Powershell Script Solutions

A while ago I blogged about backing up my virtual home lab for free with Veeam Backup & Replication 10. The server on which I installed this is a Windows Server 2016 server that is also used for backing up my home PCs and laptops. And on this server I…

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…