After writing Administrating licenses in vSphere client I missed to mention another way to assign licences to vSAN cluster. Whenever you build you a new cluster and if don't enable vSAN services, that cluster generally is not listed under licenses Assets, Unless you enable vSAN service on cluster. (…
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Powercli Get vCenter assigned licenses report
This is a second part of earlier written article Powercli Get vCenter licenses information, that script will help to collect all the added VMware licenses but doesn't show which system is utilizing the license. Here in this script it helps you to get report of assigned licences information. Using …
Powercli Get vCenter licenses information
Recently I was testing vCenter and Esxi 7 - vSphere suite for my new project, I periodically ask my subordinate team to review and collect the licenses information to know and forecast licensing needs. To use this script first I fill and run information accordingly. (Temporarily remove/unload Hyper-…
Connect-VIServer Error: Invalid server certificate. Use Set-PowerCLIConfiguration
After installation of new version of VMware PowerCli module on one of my deployment at client infrastructure. I tried testing it by using cmdlet connect-viserver to vcenter, which was failing with below error. Reading error carefully on the screen, which was telling me, my vcenter’s SSL certificate…
Installing VMware.Powercli latest version and Error Invalid server certificate Set-PowerCLIConfiguration
Way long back, After writing my my article VMWARE VSPHERE POWERCLI INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION STEP BY STEP, I decided today to upgrade my vSphere PowerCLI to newer version 10 in the office, I am choosing little bit different installation method instead of using exe installer, PowerCLI can be do…
Using PowerCLI to Increase VMDK (Virtual disk) in VMware Virtual Machine
Below oneliner commands I recently used to configure multiple VMware Virtual Machines Hard disk, Task was to grow/extend VMDK virtual disk on more than hundreds of the virtual machine. Below is the main techniques and gist of the article and scripts. These one-liner commands also include the command…
vMotion from all VMs on selected Esxi Host to other Esxi host via PowerCLI GUI
Currently I am doing complete VMware environment upgrade in my office in terms of hardware as well, After few plans I found most of my Esxi servers in VMWare clusters in my office were over committed. First question was by my boss was how do we perform it without degrading current VMs performance. T…
Upload files to vmware ESXi datastore: Different methods
Copying files to VMware Datastores is an easy task. Here in this article, I am showing 3 different methods to upload files to VMware datastores, You can use these methods to copy offline bundle zip, VIB, VMDK or ISO files. Ifyou are using VMWare vSphere web client to upload files to datastore, make …
Powercli GUI: Determine the EVC Mode that vmware cluster should be configured
I was evaluating one of the old project hosted on VMware in my office for a client, After ruff capacity calculation I found scarce of compute and memory resources in the VMware clusters. Few meetings and decisions, and sharing complete excel data and capacity planning for upcoming VMs, we decide…
Add NFS datastores to VMware ESXi hosts using PowerCLI
Warning: Windows NFS server is not listed on VMWare HCL as Esxi NFS datastore. I am using it as a demo purpose.
In this article I will use NFS mount created earlier in Microsoft Powershell: Windows 2016 Install and configure NFS server. Mounting the same NFS datastore storage on Esxi servers or …
VMware Powercli : Gather distributed virtual switch information to JSON file to migrate standard switch
I have already written complete series on how to migrate distributed virtual switch to Standard virtual switch which helps to move Esxi host from one vCenter to another vCenter server. As you should not remove Esxi directly with distributed switch from vCenter until you move it to standard virtual s…
Join domain ESXi to an Active Directory OU : Powercli
I received request from my internal team to provide a small solution on Esxi Domain join and created when pulled it in domain computer account should be created in specific OU (Organization Unit). To perform this task first, we need complete OU path, to find it open Active Directory Users and Comp…
Resolved: Esxi Join domain failed-Error in Active Directory Operations
This is some times common, you document something and if don't implement it or use something since long, you might forget knowledge or the issues you resolved earlier. I was automating join domain ESXi servers, while trying joining I was keep getting error: Errors in Active directory operations. I a…
Copy or clone distributed virtual switch portgroups to standard switch portgroups - Powercli
Migrating ESXi server from one vCenter server to another vCenter server is very easy task if complete networking is on standard virtual switches. When migrating ESXi server with distributed virtual switches to another VC is also easy but requires extra steps. First it is recommended to move back fro…
vSphere PowerCLI - Configure syslog on VMware ESXi hosts and Enable security profile firewall
In my earlier article I wrote about Configure syslog on VMware ESXi hosts: VMware best practices using VMWare vSphere web client GUI. Configuring syslog server on multiple esxi host servers manually by clicks is very boring task, As automation is everywhere, use it to doing with better way in VMWar…
Reset forgotten ESXi root password on Domain joined Esxi using vSphere web client and Powercli
This article shows one of the reason why you always should follow best practices while configuring any environment. Here I will take a reference of my earlier blog . Few days back I received one personal project to work on, There was an issue, clients were wanted to perform some activity on ESXi ss…
POWERCLI AND VSPHERE WEB CLIENT: JOIN ESXI INTO ACTIVE DIRECTORY DOMAIN CONTROLLER
This is another best security guideline to always join Esxi server into domin, most preferable is Active Directory domain controller, One of the advantage is I can use domain-wide authentication with Domain joined ESXi, Means I don't have to use or share root or any local username to login, Creating…
POWERCLI: VIRTUAL MACHINE STORAGE MIGRATE/SVMOTION AND DATASTORE PORT BINDING MULTIPATHING
POWERCLI VMWARE: CONFIGURE SOFTWARE ISCSI STORAGE ADAPTER AND ADD VMFS DATASTORE
This blog article is similar to my previous notes VMWARE ESXI INSTALL AND CONFIGURE SOFTWARE ISCSI STORAGE ADAPTER FOR VMFS VERSION 6 DATASTORE. Here I am using VMware Powercli instead of vSphere web client to configure iScsi storage adpater and add new datastore. As this is complete powercli artic…
FIND FREE OR UNASSIGNED STORAGE LUN DISKS ON VMWARE ESXI SERVER
This is one of my small script. And I use it to find free or unassigned unforrmatted LUNs/Disks on Esxi server. When Lun or disk from storage (most probably remote) assigned and presented to Esxi server, this LUN doesn't have any partition, and unformatted as a raw disk, This is visible when you try…
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