Virtualisation | Cloud | Strategy
Revisiting VMware PowerShell Find VMs with Memory Reservations Back in March 2021 I wrote a quick one line PowerShell snippet to find memory reservations for a friend that wanted a simple and quick way to return objects that had reservations. I extended the one liner to also return VM objects that have either CPU or […]
Pets, Cattle, Ants Pets vs cattle as an analogy to manage IT assets and cloud infrastructure is a decade old. Even before this observation became commonplace, this is something that I’d seen first-hand. When I came into the IT industry, I was often supporting assets named after Knights of the Round Table, Lord of the […]
In a previous post I’d worked through a few issues with formatting and labelling disks with PowerShell and part of a CloudConfig element. I had someone get in touch with a similar issue linked to how they could use PowerShell within CloudConfig to provide Disk Identification Formatting and Labelling, for disks being added across multiple […]
Adventures with PowerShell, CloudConfig and vRealize Cloud Assembly This week I had a customer with some errors trying to use the following componenets together: PowerShell, CloudConfig, and cloudbase-init within a Cloud Assembly blueprint. To put it bluntly, the code was not running correctly. The customer could run the code locally without any issue. However, as […]
PowerShell – Discover Secure boot enabled Hosts As sometimes happens someone from the community got in touch to ask me the question below. “I’m currently banging my head against the proverbial trying to understand the Get-EsxCli command. What I am after is a listing of Secure-boot Enabled or disabled against all are ESXi hosts using […]
I got asked the following today. “Can I install PowerShell 7 on Windows 10, but still use VMware PowerCLI 12 ?” Based on the public compatibility matrix documentation for VMware PowerCLI 12.0 the question was prompted because the answer is ostensibly no. Because of this table in the documentation under Installation Prerequisites; OS Type .NET […]
VMware PowerShell VM Console Connections Here is a quick outline of how you can use PowerShell to interrogate and change the configuration of the number of VM console connections permitted to connect to a virtual machine. The main focus of attention here is “RemoteDisplay.maxConnections” which can be used to limit the number of simultaneous connections […]
Buying VMware vSphere Perpetual Vs Subscription? I get asked a lot about the best way to buy VMware vSphere now, especially by organizations that may have only ever purchased vSphere in a perpetual model before. I’ll try and distill some of those conversations into this post. TL:DR – I am yet to see a vSphere […]
VMware Powershell Get Network Usage Metrics I was asked how it might be possible to get network usage metrics for Virtual Machines that where hosted on older versions of the VMware ESXi hypervisor the other week. The request came about as the organization in question is looking to replace a platform and wants to get […]
VMware PowerShell Find VMs with Memory Reservations I had a friend message me today asking a if there was a simple way to to use VMware PowerShell to find VMs with memory reservations. The answer is yes and it’s not that tricky to do, in fact we can do it with a single line of […]