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 csv to be sent via an email. I’m sure most of you know how to schedule a…
Tag: PowerCLI
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 you find this helpful. You can upgrade your VDS to version 6.5.0 then after. I chose version…
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 after. Picture credit to https://blogs.vmware.com/
How to Count Number of Paths in Fibre Channel VMWare Storage Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
A quick script to count the number of paths for FC ESxi HBAs for audit and troubleshooting connectivity issues using powercli.
CMDB For vCENTER Environment – VMware Estate Reporting Using PowerCLI – How to Show Datacenter, Cluster, VM Details Using Powershell – VirtuallyThatGuy
A quick script to gather information about your vCenter estate for CMDB.
How to retrieve Fibre Chanel WWN for ESXi Host Using PowerCLI – VirtuallyThatGuy
Imagine having to retreive several WWN for esxi rebuild or troubleshooting storage issue using the manual way? Well be my guest. This post is a quick script to retrive the WWN for esxi host in a specific cluster.
How to Expand Windows VM Disk Using PowerCLI or Powershell in VMware – VirtuallyThatGuy
This is a quick post about some tools I used during previous project of deploying server core for an online gambling firm I worked for. We often found ourselves expanding disk and wanted to automate the process by including logging in to the OS and extending after VMware vmdk expansion.
ESXi 8.x, 7.x, 6.x Service sfcbd-watchdog Not Running / Fails to Start – VirtuallyThatGuy
Excited about ESXi 6.7 like everyone else so I updated the lab to version 6.7 vCenter, SRM, ESXi, vROPS, vSphere replication and boom PRTG (my primary monitoring tool) wasn’t picking up any hardware monitoring. I had problem with the VMware ESXi service sfcbd-watchdog which wouldn’t start on my newly deployed ESX 6.7 servers and since…
VMware Horizon View Components Overview – VirtuallyThatGuy
Deploying virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) 7.5 in my lab so I looked no further than VMware View as the VDI platform you use. One of the most common platforms for deploying virtual desktops is VMware View. Even though there are a lot of VMware View components, View is very flexible. As such, not every deployment…
NIC teaming on vSwitch, Distributed Switch and ESXi – Load Balacing Policy – VirtuallyThatGuy
I have for long been itching to blog about network teaming, load balancing and failover order. Let’s start off with the main benefit of NIC teaming. When uplinks are teamed, it can share the load of traffic between physical and virtual networks among some or all of its members, as well as provide passive failover…