This PowerCLI script retrieves detailed information about VMware Cluster High Availability (HA) and Admission Control policies. It is extremely useful for system administrators and auditors who need to verify that cluster settings comply with engineering or governance standards.
By running this s…
This is second script article wrote on same topic 'How to Renew and Refresh an ESXi Certificate with a PowerCLI script'. In the earlier post I gave simple PowerCLI script, very easy to execute. In this article I have written the same script but added a Graphical User Interface for more easiness. Bel…
By renewing VMware ESXi server certificate through vCenter Server you can safeguards adherence to security best practices. You renew ESXi certificate to continue securing connection for your vSphere environment, avert trust issues with vCenter Server, and guarantee compatibility for upgrades, as exp…
This PowerCLI script helps to remove vCenter Server Appliance Management backup schedule job.
You can download Remove-VCSAScheduledBackup.ps1 script here or it is also available on github.com.
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While managing large Broadcom VMware environments, understanding how multiple Virtual Machines virtual disks are mapped across datastores, SCSI controllers, and guest partitions is critical for performance tuning, troubleshooting, and capacity planning. Doing this manually is time-consuming and erro…
I had bunch of vCenter Server appliance (VCSA) to update/upgrade. Although the upgrade process using vCenter Server VAMI portal (5480) is fairly very simple and easy as shown in Patching update VMware vCenter Server Appliance from a zipped update bundle Web server. But I wanted it to get it automat…
This is a second alternative script to VMware PowerCLI Clone and Deploy VM from template in vCenter. In earlier article I did customization of newly cloned Virtual Machine using Windows PowerShell commands which I executed using Invoke-VMscript. Here in this script I used inbuilt customization pro…
This VMware PowerCLI helps cloning and deploying Virtual Machine from template in vCenter Server. I had to write OS customization for Windows 2019 server because due to some reason native customization profile was failing. Here in this script there are 3 files in the script package, first file is
The VMware Host Hardware (WBEM) sensor monitors information about the hardware of an ESXi server using Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM). This script will disable and enable WBEM service using PowerCLI.
Download this Set-WbemServiceEsxi.ps1 here or it is also available on github.com/janviu…
When you run the command to Import-Module VMware.PowerCLI on Powershell, You might have received the below warning message regarding VMware CEIP (Customer Experience Improvement Program).
VMware's Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) collects technical information from participating …
There is a common issue you might have faced while connecting to either vCenter server or Esxi Server using Vmware PowerCLI.
Connect-VIserver $esxiServer -User $user -Password $password
Connect-VIServer could not connect using the requested protocol.
Additional Information: The remote server…
Recently while working with Vmware PowerCLI on one of my new laptop, when connecting to esxi server and vCenter server with Connect-VIserver command, I was receiving below error.
Connect-VIServer $esxiserver -User $user -Password $password
Connect-VIServer The SSL connection could not be estab…
In my daily use of Vmware PowerCLI scripts while pulling inventory from vCenter Server, I always include vCenter Center name in the inventory. For example if I am fetching list of Clusters or VMs with complete information it should include a property name of vCenter Server, where the object belongs.…
While working at different clients on their VMware infrastructure, I always gather complete inventory of a vCenter infrastructure first before doing any changes or designing a solution. This way I get to know very quick about the architecture. Here is my script which fetches all VDS (Virtual Distrib…
While working with VMware PowerCLI module I was receiving below error, when connecting to vCenter or ESXi server. The system where I was working on, PowerCLI was installed for first time and I was connecting to vCenter/ESXi for first time from the system. This issue occurs due to SSL certificate ins…
While working with my VMware team we had to audit and create or delete TCP/IP network stack, Here on the ESXi server under Networking >> TCP/IP Configuration you cannot create new custom stack using vSphere client. I was able to automate almost all infrastructure using PowerCLI scripts, but few…
This article is another part and related to this VMware PowerCLI Connect-VIServer Object reference not set to an instance of an object. The resolution used in the earlier blog is applied here in this article.
The problem description is, I connected to my vCenter server after I tried to connect…
While connecting to ESXi server with VMware PowerCLI from one of my server I was keep receiving below error. I wasn't able to connect to ESXi server directly from PowerCLI module.
@SERVER01 ~ Connect-VIServer ironman.vcloud-lab.com
Connect-VIServer : Object reference not set to an instanc…
Every time VMware releases ESXi patches, and I need to patch them on different projects with few modifications to patch bundle, by trimming down few driver VIBs packages or add third party driver vibs zip files packages. I do everything with PowerCLI commands. But as I wanted my colleage to perform …
"The remote server returned an error: (407) Proxy Authentication" - This is another issue I faced when working with VMware PowerCLI, Although I had already resolved another error in VMware PowerCLI Connect-VIserver Could not connect using the requested protocol, Only the difference was it was not …
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