Imagine one of your VMs struggling for compute resource and you want to add more resource without powering off the VM? Well VMware hot add and hot plug allows you to do just that. Hot-add vMem and hot-plug vCPU should allow you to easily add vMem and vCPU as necessary while your virtual machine is…
Category: Automation
How to Expand VM Disk Using PowerCLI and Extend in Windows Guest – VirtuallyThatGuy
Imagine having to expand disk for more than 20 VMs and you sadly opt to do it the click next and next and next and click next way? Well you know where I am going with this. I must admit I use to do it this way until a colleague wowed me with a script…
How to Calculate pCPU to vCPU and pMem to vMem Ratio Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
In my time working for an Online betting company, I use to do a lot of capacity planning and cluster over commit analysis for our IT director. This sphered me on to try and automate the process…Thanks to the vmware powercli you can automate the process with below. So once again welcome to VirtuallyThatGuy – this…
How to Add Multiple ESXi Hosts to vCenter Using PowerCLI – Automation – VirtuallyThatGuy
Ever wondered how to add a bunch of ESXi Hosts to a newly or existing vCenter using powershell or automate with powercli? Well below script can help you achieve just that:
How to Automate Static DNS A Records with Powershell / PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
Welcome to VirtuallyThatGuy – This post will be looking at automation the creation of static DNS records in AD using a CSV.
How to Create Virtual Machines VMs Using PowerCLI Automation – VirtuallyThatGuy
This is a quick script using CSV to create VMs from template
Back to Basics PowerCLI Setting Up Profile For Automation – VirtuallyThatGuy
Welcome to VirtuallyThatGuy – This post will be looking at setting up your PowerShell profile and getting you ready for the journey of Automation
How to Increase The vCPU and vMem Memory Of a VM Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
So a colleague asked me. Is it possible to increase the memory and cpu sizes of a bunch of VMs using powershell? My answer was everything is possible with powercli so I told him let me have a look for you. First of all you can only increase memory or vCpu of a VM if…