Has it happened to you that you see VMs that do not have any associated disks in certain datastores show up in those datastores, also not allowing vMotions as well leaving you confused? Well it could be that there are ISOs in that datastore mounted to those VMs! This is tedious when you are doing […]
Scripting is addictive, it is the tool of the lazy and the weapon of the efficient. While some like me are hooked onto scripting, most do not share this passion. In my few years in the industry, I have noticed that while most Systems Engineer’s do leverage scripts, they do not truly take to it. […]
Recently we noticed that in vCenters while we receive SNMP or Email (SMTP) red alerts, we did not receive the green alerts that changed immediately. For example if an ESX host had a memory utilization of 95%, it would trigger a red state alarm and would send out an email or SNMP trap notifying the […]
Has this happened to you – you’re doing a SELECT query from powershell doing your thang, but when you’re trying to output the fruits of your query labour all it says is System.Data.DataRow? You’re sure you did the query right, while the issue seems to be common the internet is not helping you out either […]
Recently I needed to create a script to get a list of all virtual machines in a specific ESXi host. Surprisingly I had to search high and low on the internet to figure this out. This is perplexing I mean its very straightforward to get the VMs in a datastore with you would think getting […]
Recently during a project I had to some DB queries using powershell. While that is straightforward and easy enough (I will create a post on querying DBs with powershell later on), the problem I ran in to was checking for an empty return. I wouldn’t blame you for thinking “but scriptigator this should be simple […]
We recently had a sudden requirement to increase the C: drives of a set of VMs to assist with an Operating system patching process – its not practical to to manually do that one by one – so PowerCLI to the rescue. So if you get a scenario where you need to expand an existing […]
I had worked on an automation project to ease up virtual machine provisioning – for that it was necessary to create a script that would list out all the networks that is visible to an ESXi host (so that the correct one could be added to the new virtual machine). Turns this was quite easy […]
Say you have to do a configuration change on an ESXi host – you know you can script that stuff out and put your feet up while it does it’s thang… Buuut you’re unsure about whether the host is in maintenance mode… what if its not on maintenance mode? What if it screws it up! […]
More often than not when scripting you will have to deal with reading files with Powershell when scripting. Whether its logs or files comparison orrrr feeding a list to the script to store and use as a variable, you will need to read a file from your script. Thankfully Powershell has the Get-Content cmdlet which […]