Where’s that vmdk at?
Do your vm’s have multiple virtual disks? Do you use different datastores for your vmdk’s? Are you ever wondering where the disk files of each of your vm’s is stored? Yes? Well, I’ve got something to...
View ArticlePowershell Oneliner #6
Today’s oneliner is an incredibly fast way to check the usage of your VMware datastores. You should first connect to Virtual Center in the following way: $VC = Connect-VIServer “YourVCServerName” Here...
View ArticleHelpful scripts of the day: HTML Overview of VMs and Datastores
Today’s helpful scripts are ready to use scripts that generate an overview of your VM’s and your Datastores and save it to a HTML file. Great for reporting purposes. Easy to modify to meet your needs....
View ArticleGet VMware Disk Usage with Powershell
Using VMware seriously requires a lot of (shared) storage. This kind of storage (on a SAN for instance) is quite expensive. So you might want to check if you are wasting a lot of this space. When you...
View ArticleCompare ESX configurations with Powershell
One of the challenges in managing a large VMware Infrastructure is keeping all ESX Servers within a cluster equal. This is essential for having vmotion capabilities and therefore essential for a solid...
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Another way to gather VMware disk info with Powershell
I’ve created another way to gather and display VMware Virtual Disk information with the Powershell VI Toolkit. The attached script generates a csv-file with all Virtual Machines’ Disks, in which...
View ArticleCompare Cluster Datastores with Powershell
I showed you before how to compare the datastores for two ESX Servers using the VI Toolkit. But ideally, one would like to compare all ESX servers in a cluster to ensure VMotion and HA compatibility....
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Check VMware Configuration with Powershell
I have promised you I would post this script, so here it is! This Powershell script generates an overview of any items that are not available to every ESX server in a VMware cluster. These items might...
View ArticleFind LUN ID’s in VMware with Powershell
Determining the LUN ID for a specific LUN in your VMware Infrastructure used to be simple. It was listed as one of the properties of the datastore you selected in the VI Client. Nowadays, more often...
View ArticleFind LUN ID’s in VMware with Powershell
Determining the LUN ID for a specific LUN in your VMware Infrastructure used to be simple. It was listed as one of the properties of the datastore you selected in the VI Client. Nowadays, more often...
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