VMware

Excel report - Details of VM's of Data Centers

Phani Ghanta — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:19:27 GMT

Note: You need to connect to ESX server via PowerCLI to execute this script

Example: connect-viserver -server <Name of Server>

This Script helps to gather details of VM's(Mentioning the Data Center Details) gathering details like IP address, VM Status, OS Details, Memory,Provisioned Disk Space.

All the details will B saved in Excel @ C: Drive

Virtual Machine Name

Status

IP Address

Operating System

Memory

Provisioned Disk Space

Happy ScriptLearning

Phani Ghanta

Powershell to Pull all Server details on Virtual Centre

Krishna — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:58:03 GMT

Attached powershell helps to pull all the server details like name process and memory allocated on all the VC

Regards,
Krishna
http://smtpport25.wordpress.com

Powershell to Pull all the Server Disk details in VM VC

Krishna — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:14:17 GMT

For auditing purpose we may wanted to pull all the VM Server disk details like allocated and usage of all the drives in VC. Attached script helps to pull the same

Regards,
Krishna
http://smtpport25.wordpress.com

Change-vNic-PortGroup-Assignment

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:00:09 GMT

Change the port group assignment on the vNICs for a bunch of guest VMs in the lab.

Attributed To: Scott Lowe

URL: http://blog.scottlowe.org/2009/01/05/changing-vnic-port-group-assignment-in-vmware-with-powershell/

ClusterwideLUNPathBalance

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:56:02 GMT

Cluster-wide LUN Path Load Balancing Script

Attributed To: Justin Emerson

URL: http://vmjunkie.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/balancing-lun-paths-on-your-esx-hosts-with-powershell/

Clone-VM

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:51:34 GMT

Clone a VM using the VI Toolkit.

Attributed To: Justin Emerson, LucD

URL: http://vmjunkie.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/clone-vm-function/

Monitor-VMGuests

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:45:33 GMT

Check the cpu.usage.average statistic of a period of the last few minutes (watch out for the -IntervalMins parameter it can produce a period slightly different to what you would expect) and if its over 99% run the CheckHighCPU function and send the results by email.

Attributed To: Jonathan Medd, Alan Renouf

URL: http://jonathanmedd.blogspot.com/2009/01/using-powershell-to-monitor-vmware.html

Healthcheck

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:36:54 GMT

Script that checks the status of a VMware enviroment:

VMware ESX server Hardware and version
VMware VC version
Active Snapshots
CDROMs connected to VMs
Floppy drives connected to VMs
Datastores and the free space available
VM information such as VMware tools version, processor and memory limits
Witch VMs have VMware timesync options not enabled

Attributed To: Ivo Beerens

URL: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-7430

Track-VMDatastores

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:13:04 GMT

Track Datastore Space script

Attributed To: Hugo Peeters

URL: http://www.peetersonline.nl/index.php/vmware/track-datastore-free-space/

Get-VMware-NTP

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:06:24 GMT

Check the NTP setting on your VMware ESX Server

Attributed To: Hugo Peeters

URL: http://www.peetersonline.nl/index.php/vmware/checking-vmware-ntp-configuration-with-powershell/

Get-VMDiskUsage

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:57:23 GMT

Get VMware Disk Usage

Attributed To: Hugo Peeters

URL: http://www.peetersonline.nl

Get-VMDatastores-NotUsed

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:55:53 GMT

Check your datastores that are not used.

Attributed To: Hugo Peeters

URL: http://www.peetersonline.nl/index.php/vmware/powershell-oneliner-6/

Get-VMDatastores

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:42:38 GMT

Check the usage of your VMware datastores.

Attributed To: Hugo Peeters

URL: http://www.peetersonline.nl/index.php/vmware/powershell-oneliner-6/

Compare-Clusters

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:36:47 GMT

This script will compare all ESX hosts inside each cluster. It checks wether all datastores, LUNs and Port Groups are available to all hosts in the cluster. It generates a nicely formatted HTML page with the output.

Attributed To: Hugo Peeters

URL: http://www.peetersonline.nl/?s=compare-clusters

Add-VMSnaphotSize

Richard Giles — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:17:14 GMT

Retrieve total size of the delta files all snapshots are occupying. They might be eating up all your precious SAN space.

Attributed To: Hugo Peeters

URL: http://www.peetersonline.nl/index.php/vmware/add-custom-fields-to-vi-client-with-powershell-samples/