PowerCLI 6.0 R1 is released with some cool new features. One thing I missed in this announcement is improvements in the PowerCLI support for VMware Horizon View. The latest release of VMware Horizon View 6.1 still has NO PowerCLI improvements! This is a huge bummer because PowerCLI is very limited …
Continue ReadingVIBSearch is a simple PowerShell script with a GUI that will search for a specified VIB or all the VIBS installed on the ESXi hosts. A VIB stands for vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB). VIBs are used to package and distribute ESXi software such as drivers. The GUI is designed with SAPIEN PowerShell …
Continue ReadingFor a VMware View Horizon Healthcheck I needed to display all VMware View Pools created and export some settings for documentation. The easiest way to do this is using View PowerCLI on a VMware View Connection server. Here are some examples to use: Display all the pools and settings: get-pool …
Continue ReadingI create a simple PowerCLI script that backups all the VMware ESXi host configurations that are connected to a vCenter Server. This script can be scheduled to make for example every week a backup of the ESXi server configs. You can easily customize the script for your own needs. #Variables $Folder = …
Continue ReadingVMware Horizon View generates everyday at 5 minutes for midnight an event how many concurrent users connected to View that day. This information can be useful for example when when investing trends. When the Event database in the VMware Horizon View Administrator is configured, this information can …
Continue ReadingWhen you start the Remote Tech Support (TSM) service on a VMware ESXi host a warning and the following message will appear: Remote Tech Support Mode (SSH) for the host … has been enabled When the warning appears some Admins get a little nervous. Since VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 2 and VMware ESXi 5 the …
Continue ReadingThis PowerCLI script will display specified VM settings for all VMs in the vCenter server you specify. If you do an inventory, a health check or need to troubleshoot VMware environment this PowerCLI script can be useful. The following VM settings will be displayed: VMName, Hostname, IP address, OS …
Continue ReadingI made a simple example script using the VMware PowerCLI that can be used to do the post installation configuration of a VMware ESX 4 server. This script does the following things: Connect to VMware ESX server Set the SC memory to 800MB Creates vSwitch2 and add vmnic2 and vmnic3 Add several …
Continue ReadingVMware vCenter version Cluster information (Updated) VMware statistics (New) List the active Snapshots CDROMs connected to VMs Floppy drives connected to VMs Datastores Information such as free space RDM information (New) VM information such as VMware tools version, processor and memory limits VMs …
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