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How To Increase VMware Datastore Using Powershell or Powercli – VirtuallyThatGuy
This is a quick blog post on how to increase VMFS datastore size using powercli. I recently installed workstation on my desktop to run nested vSAN for testing. I found out that using the native UI took a…
Read More »Script: How to Increase Multiple Virtual Machines VMs vCPU and vMem using a CSV and PowerCLI
This is an updated blog posted requested by one of the regular users of this blog. IMPORTANT NOTE – the script will recursively shutdown each VM defined in CSV (unless Hot Add is already enabled), apply the config…
Read More »How To Rename Multiple ESXi Local Datastore With PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
This is a quick blog post to rename multiple datastore to Hostname-local using the residing cluster . Use case could be after auto deploy from stateless to stateful.
Read More »Cluster Inventory Report or CMDB Report for VMs, Cluster, Hosts, vCenter – Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
A quick blog post about gathering VM information for VMs running in your estate.
Read More »vMotion Fails with error the vm failed to resume on the destination during early power on Using Powercli – VirtuallyThatGuy
Welcome to VirtuallyThatGuy – this is a quick blog about CBT and snapshot errors when vmotion from one host to the other with this error “vmotion fails the vm failed to resume on the destination during early power…
Read More »VMware Host Profile Compliance Checks Using Powercli – VirtuallyThatGuy
Welcome to VirtuallyThatGuy – today we are going to discuss how to quickly check host profile compliance and export the results to a CSV. You can use windows task scheduler to auto schedule this and even get the…
Read More »Script: How to Create VMware Distributed Switch or Virtual Distributed Switch VDS Using Powercli – VirtuallyThatGuy
I often rebuild my lab and wanted to script something simple to recreate the VDS once I blast the lab. This is a very simple script I worked on to create my VDS environment and uplinks teaming. Hope…
Read More »VMware Code Capture to PowerCLI – How to capture Powershell Scripts from VMware – VirtuallyThatGuy
This is a quick blog about the capture to code for vmware. My lab is due a rebuild so will be putting this to test for my vDS setup and HostProfile config changes. Will share further details then…
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