Storage Based Policy Management (SBPM) has been around for a while, when working with storage tiers, metro clusters, or vSAN, it’s either fundamental or best practice. But clicking on anything more than half a dozen vms and datastores is a bit too much hard work. Using a mix of PowerCLI and the web client I …
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I find that I’m spending an increasing amount of time in PowerCLI, partly that’s because I am working with groups of hosts or vms. It’s not that I’m working with scripts all the time, just that if I need to do some action at scale, a foreach loop is going to save a bunch of …
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DRS history will only show the most recent VMotion events, to get a more complete picture LudD has created a couple of fantastic functions. What they do is allow you to create a csv report of all the VMotion/SVMotions events of a period of time, for example 24, 48, or 72 hours – This is …
find a vms mac in two minutes with this really useful one-liner Get-VM | Get-NetworkAdapter ยด | Where-Object {$_.MacAddress -eq “00:50:56:xx:xx:xx:”} | Select MacAddress,NetworkName,Name,Parent,ConnectionState Ok, it’s a bit slow to run, this function by Robert van den Nieuwendijk is much faster [code language=”powershell”] function Get-VmByMacAddress { <# .SYNOPSIS Retrieves the virtual machines with a …
