6 vEducate articles tagged PowerCLI.
vSphere Orphaned First Class Disk (FCD) Cleanup Script Orphaned First Class Disks (FCDs) in VMware vSphere environments are a surprisingly common and frustrating issue. These are virtual disks that exist on datastores but are no longer associated with any…
Read guide →I kept running into the error whilst running PowerCLI on Ubuntu. After wracking my brains, I realised that the issue is DNS, my Ubuntu box couldn't resolve the FQDN for the ESXi host, which is a mandatory parameter for the Import-vApp command. Import-VApp…
Read guide →In this blog post, I am going to break down a PowerShell code I have created (with help from some colleagues). The functions of this PowerShell code are; Present a GUI form to the end user Connect to a vCenter Select the virtual machine to be cloned Select…
Read guide →So I am no scripting master, my PowerShell knowledge is still something I want to expand. During an install last week I had a number of hosts to setup from scratch, so I decided to do this via PowerCLI, as a lot of the tasks were repetitive. Setting up the…
Read guide →So basically I had a host failure where all of the configure was lost, if I was more savvy with Powershell/PowerCLI, I would have been able to rebuild it all via scripts, but that clones the settings from a working host. But nevermind that is for a different…
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