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Testing Script Runtime Service for vSphere – part 2

1 februari 2021 PowerCli Powershell VMware No Comments

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 No Comments

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…

YAMS – Yet Another Migration Script

23 juni 2020 PowerCli Script VMware No Comments

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 No Comments

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…

Find a datastore or RDM by LUN ID

27 juli 2019 PowerCli Script VMware No Comments

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…