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How to change VSS / VDS network name or Change portgroup name using PowerCLI or PowerShell – VirtuallyThatGuy

How to quickly change multiple network adapter names across multiple VSS or VDS.

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How to check vmtools version and status using PowerCLI Script – VirtuallyThatGuy

Ever wondered a quicker way to check the vmtools versions and their status in your estate? Well here you go my friend.

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How to Check Number of Disk and Number of NICs Per VM in a Cluster Using Powershell or Powercli – VirtuallyThatGuy

A quick useful vcheck for number of disks allocated to a VM , number of NICs and Guest OS details

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PowerCLI Script to Configure DNS and NTP on ESXi Hosts – VirtuallyThatGuy

This is a quick blog post on how to update DNS and NTP settings via powercli. You can also check my other post on how to do it via host profile $vCenters = “lab-vcenter01.lab.local”, “lab-vcenter02.lab.local”

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VMware Must Have Powershell Commands – Useful VIProperty cmdlets for VMware Powercli – How to add cmdlets to Powershell Profile VMWare – VirtuallyThatGuy

These are useful and must VI property cmdlets for automation.

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How to set ESXi Shell timeout session value Using Powershell or PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy

Another quick blog post about changing and updating esxi shell session timeout using powercli.

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Lab StartUp Script – Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy

This is a handy script I was playing with to startup my lab remotely. I hope you find some of the commands useful.

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Lab Shutdown Script – Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy

This is a handy script I was playing with to shutdown my lab remotely. I hope you find some of the commands useful

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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…

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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…

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