For those who spend most of the day with your head buried in PowerCLI, the 5.8r1 reference poster is now available for download at http://bit.ly/PowerCLIPosterv2 For more information, see http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2014/10/powercli-5-8r1-reference-poster-now-available.html
I was recently adding a number of hard disks to a virtual machine on an number of SCSI controller devices, so rather than using the vSphere Web Client I looked at using the New-HardDisk cmdlet in order to repeat this task of adding a new virtual machine hard disk . I wanted to create the virtual … More PowerCLI: Adding multiple disks to a virtual machine using the New-HardDisk cmdlet
I was recently looking at enabling the SSH service on multiple ESXi hosts in a cluster to invoke a change using remote access, in order to do so I was able to start and stop the SSH service on each ESXi host using PowerCLI. Firstly, I established a connection to the vCenter Server and created … More PowerCLI: Starting and Stopping the SSH service on multiple ESXi hosts
On remediating virtual machines using the Update Manager, a number of VMware Tools upgrades would fail reporting the following: Error Upgrading VMware Tools vix error code = 21009 On investigation of vix error codes at https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/vix16_reference/errors/errors.html there was error code reference for the above. So now it was time to look at the vmware.log file for … More VMware Tools Upgrade fails with vix error code 21009
I was recently looking to make an change to the advanced settings of a number of virtual machine to which this required the virtual machine to be powered down in order to apply. Firstly, we will establish a connection to the vCenter system. If (-not (Get-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) { Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core | Out-Null } Connect-VIServer server1.domain.local | Out-Null … More PowerCLI – Orchestrating bulk advanced setting modifications on a VM
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