Tag: Windows

vROps: Management Pack Troubleshooting

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Introduction VMware vRealize™ Operations™, part of the VMware vRealize suite, provides a unified management experience for IT services on the VMware vCenter™ server. The Pure Storage FlashArray Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) helps VMware administrators…

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Windows AD {Active Directory} (PowerShell) samples

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You will need to have RSAT (Remote Server Administration Tools) installed For Windows 7 and above. This enables your local machine to remotely manage Windows Servers and Services via the usual MMC GUI’s (eg AD Users and Computers) and…

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Migrate VMs Between vCentres Using Powershell or PowerCLI

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Yeah you can do this in the UI but I don’t like clicking so will use a script instead. The following script will migrate virtual machines from one vCentre to another, so long as both have a shared…

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Set VM Tools to Update Automatically on VM Reboot using powershell

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Keeping VM Tools up to date is like painting the Forth Bridge (an endless task which, just as you finish, another ESX release goes live and you start all over again). A useful, but almost hidden feature, is…

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Windows Administrator Must Have Powershell Commands

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This is a quick blog post about some useful windows powershell commands an administrator will find useful on a day to day basis. Share the love Command What it Does? $psversiontable Which version of powershell and I running…

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Linux & Terraform & AIX Server Administrator Cheat Sheet

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Most of these commands will also work on Linux , networking or terraform as specified below Command What is does? route add -net 10.98.208.40 netmask 255.255.255.255 gw 172.31.191.254 Add a static root – substitute for your IP information…

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VMware ESXi CLI Cheat Sheet

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These cheat sheets are to be used on the VMware platform. Some commands require PowerCLI, others can be run directly on the Photon OS. Command What it does /etc/init.d/hostd restart/etc/init.d/vpxa restart Restart VMWare Management services on Host #…

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Ping All VM’s On ESXi Using Powershell

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This is a quick blog about some useful sanity check prior to and after network level changes

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Comprehensive Script of VM’s with Snapshots Running – Using PowerShell or Powercli – VirtuallyThatGuy

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This script generates an email report of virtual machines that have snapshots running. save above and run as below .\getsnapshotsize.ps1

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PowerShell or PowerCLI starter pack – OneLiners Must Have For Administrator

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A quick blog on some one liners managing the vmware estate an admin must have. The following are a few PowerCLI commands that I have found useful at one time or another. The VMware Communities section for PowerCLI is a great starting…

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