Powershell Oneliner #6
Today’s oneliner is an incredibly fast way to check the usage of your VMware datastores. You should first connect to Virtual Center in the following way: $VC = Connect-VIServer “YourVCServerName” Here...
View ArticleQuick VI Toolkit Oneliners
Today, I have some quick-and-easy VI Toolkit ‘Get-VIEvent’ one-liners for you. Let’s get started right away: To get all events relating to a certain Virtual Machine, try this: Get-VM “MyVMName” |...
View ArticlePosting Pause (plus bonus oneliner)
I’m sorry to announce that I won’t be able to post anything until the beginning of October. But I will be back, so please keep me in your RSS feed or check back here in a month. I’ll be back...
View ArticleOneliner for the road
Okay, so I’ve just announced I won’t post anything for the coming month. You must all feel very sad. Well, before leaving you sobbing over an empty feed reader, here’s one more oneliner. One for the...
View ArticleOneliner of the day
Do your fellow VMware Admins sometimes forget to fill in the Notes field for a new vm they create? Or would you like to change those inconsistent notes to something more accurate? Todays oneliner...
View ArticleVMware Stats Oneliner
Today’s oneliner is a nifty little function that reports the average CPU and Memory usage for one or more of your VMs, calculated over the last x hours: function Get-VMStat { param( $VM,[Int32]$Hours =...
View ArticleOneliner: Get Logged on Users with Powershell
Check out this oneliner/function! Provide a computer name and it will return the logged on users. function Get-MyLoggedOnUsers { param([string]$Computer) Get-WmiObject Win32_LoggedOnUser...
View ArticleTOP 10 Commandlets in a Oneliner
“It’s the time for lists”, I read somewhere today. Sure, that is true. But blogging little lists isn’t much fun. So, I will let you generate your very own TOP 10 list. Use the following Powershell...
View ArticleChecking VMware NTP configuration with Powershell
Thanks to the VMware VI Toolkit 1.5, checking the NTP settings on all your VMware ESX Servers is as easy as a oneliner: Get-VMHost | Sort Name | Select Name, @{N=”NTP”;E={Get-VMHostNtpServer $_}}
View ArticleOneliner: Service Console IP with PowerCLI
Getting the Service Console IP addresses of your ESX servers with vSphere PowerCLI (formerly known as the VI Toolkit for Powershell): Get-VMHost | Select Name,...
View ArticleOneliner: Service Console IP with PowerCLI
Getting the Service Console IP addresses of your ESX servers with vSphere PowerCLI (formerly known as the VI Toolkit for Powershell): Get-VMHost | Select Name,...
View ArticleCheck VMware CPU oversubscription with a PowerCLI Oneliner
This PowerCLI oneliner will give you quick insight in the capacity of your VMware clusters by showing the oversubscription on CPU’s. The CPU Oversubscription is the ratio between the number of virtual...
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