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Documenting vCenter Privileges with PowerCLI

A customer that I'm working with at present asked this week if the minimum privileges required for vRA to access a vSphere Endpoint could be documented. As someone who isn't a fan of unnecessary wheel re-invention, my initial response was to direct them to the relevant

Automating vSphere VM disk zeroing with vRA7 and vRO

A long time ago, on a project far back in time, the team that I was part of was given a requirement to zero the disks of VMs before they were deleted by vRA / vRO (or vCAC and vCO as they were called back then). One of my colleagues on

New vRO and PowerCLI Automation Training

A lot of the projects that I work on have an element of automation to them and I've been asked a few times by customers if there is a training course available that will help them get started in understanding vRO and VMware's PowerCLI cmdlets and

Review: Learning PowerCLI

Unless you’re new to vSphere, you’ll probably have heard about PowerCLI. You may already be using it regularly or perhaps you’ve found the occasional use for it and used one or more of the many excellent scripts that can be found on the internet. Either way, unless

vOpenData - Shared Virtual Infrastructure Statistics

Whether you love or loathe VMware and their products, one area that you can't fault is the community that's built up around them. In that community blood, sweat, tears and a dash of brilliance have produced many amazing things. vOpenData looks like it could be one

Do my ESXi hosts have the same VLANs?

In a small vSphere environment that I've recently been working on, I started to notice that some of my VMs were disappearing off the network from time to time. Reboots of the VM didn't seem to fix the issue but a quick vMotion of the VM

PowerShell Primer

A few times in the last few weeks I've been asked if it's worth learning PowerShell. My answer is always “yes”. Rather than repeat myself too often I thought I'd make a post out of it. But first, an apology. I met a chap

Review: VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference

It's difficult to be objective when you know (and like) some of the authors. Fortunately it's not a problem in this case since I don't have anything bad to say about their work anyway so I don't need to be diplomatic! Of

PowerCLI: Empty Resource Pool

Just a quick one today and I'm only putting it up here because it's a one-liner and they always make me smile 🙂 Of the multiple clusters on one vCenter server that I'm working on, one of them has some resource pools that we don&

Finding HA Primary Nodes

A question came up in yesterday's “Chad's Choice” webcast about choosing which hosts in a cluster would be configured as HA primary nodes. I'm not going to go into any great detail here about what HA primary nodes are because there is a more

List of VMX Files

Don't ask me why but I wanted a list of .VMX files for all of the virtual machines registered in vCenter. With a little experimentation it was easy to come up with a oneliner. [ps]Get-VM | Get-View | % { $_.Config.Files.VmPathName }[/ps] However, that's not the quickest

Display vSCSIStats Data With Microsoft Chart Controls

I had to run vSCSIStats for the first time in a while the other day. Normally, trying to display the data that it outputs in a graphical form involves some cutting and pasting and a wrestling match with Excel. I recalled this time that someone had tried to automate the

PowerCLI: New cmdlets for Update Manager

VMware have this morning / last night released some PowerCLI cmdlets for VMware Update Manager (VUM). A short description can be found of them below: Cmdlet NameCmdlet DescriptionAttach-BaselineAttaches baselines to the specified Template, VirtualMachine, VMHost, Cluster, Datacenter, Folder, and VApp objects. Attaching a baseline to a container object such as a

Basics: Open PowerCLI using different credentials

Everytime I use a different PC or laptop I always forget to do this after installing PowerCLI. I happily open PowerCLI up and try to connect to a vCenter server and get prompted for my login information. This is how I feel: Every time in that session that “Connect-VIServer” is