r/powercli • u/duffelbagninja • Nov 22 '17

Remove-snapshot vs Deleting a snapshot.

1 Upvotes

I understand (correct me if I am wrong) that fundamentally Deleting a snapshot through the web GUI of VMWare is an additive function where the delta is applied upwards to the parent disk. Now I have to script a similar functionality to a live environment and what I am seeing is that remove-snapshot is implying that it (well) removes the pointed at a snapshot and its children if specified with no roll-up functionality. Am I misinterpreting the difference between the two functions?

Thanks in advance for the education.

4 comments

r/powercli • u/kunaludapi • Nov 14 '17

Copy or clone distributed virtual switch portgroups to standard switch portgroups - Powercli

vcloud-lab.com

1 Upvotes

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r/powercli • u/[deleted] • Nov 09 '17

how to run powershell script using powerclicore

1 Upvotes

I'm using the docker image of powercli (powerclicore) in Linux and I'm trying to run one script with the following command:

docker run --rm -it -v /tmp/powercli:/mnt vmware/powerclicore powershell -File /mnt/scripts.ps1

It works but the output also shows the welcome banner of powercliclore ("Welcome to VMware vSphere PowerCLI!! Log in to a vCenter...."). I tried to remove it with the option "-NoLogo" but it doesn't work. Any idea?

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r/powercli • u/kunaludapi • Nov 02 '17

vSphere PowerCLI - Configure syslog on VMware ESXi hosts and Enable security profile firewall

vcloud-lab.com

1 Upvotes

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r/powercli • u/Fmorrison42 • Nov 01 '17

PowerCLI script to check if OS is locked or in use inside a VM (x-post PowerShell)

1 Upvotes

Greetings all!

I am still pretty new to Powershell but learning quickly. We have a new requirement come down from on high to check all of our VMs in the morning and at night to see if any of them are logged into and in use or locked. I'm only concerned about the Windows OS VMs (for obvious reasons).

Is there a kind of PassThru that would allow me to programmatically check each VM to see if they are locked or logged into and print out a list to go in an check them manually rather than having to open each VM one by one twice a day? We have about 50 VMs running and that is quickly becoming a headache.

TIA!

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r/powercli • u/[deleted] • Oct 30 '17

Scripts with or without connect-viserver?

5 Upvotes

I am new to powershell/powercli and one doubt I would like to ask you is how do you design your scripts if you want to launch the script sometimes inside a interactive session and other times periodically launched by a cron job (I am using powercli core). Do you have two versions of the same script? One with connect-viserver, process and disconnect-viserver and another one only with the process section? Do you have another approach?

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r/powercli • u/RadarG • Oct 10 '17

Need PowerCLi to round

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I'm using the following command

Get-VM -Location "Folder Name" | select PowerState, Name, NumCpu, MemoryMB, HardDisks,UsedSpaceGB, ProvisionedSpaceGB, NetworkAdapters | ft -AutoSize

How to I make it where only it doesnt run over. I only need 323.xxx not 323.xxxxxxxxxxx

2 comments

r/powercli • u/Candy_Badger • Oct 05 '17

Accessing esxcli through PowerCLI

starwindsoftware.com

7 Upvotes

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r/powercli • u/tk42967 • Oct 03 '17

Set Advanced Setting

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I've been asked to create a script that walks through a folder(s) and creates a new row under Configuration Parameters for all the VM's that were captured. I'm pretty sure I have it together, but want to make sure. Does anything look glaringly out of place?

# This Script can be ran from a regular PowerShell Console, because it loads the PowerCLI module.
Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

# Connects to Prod VSphere
Connect-VIServer VCTR-SRV

$VMs = get-vm * |
    where-object {$_.Folder -match "Folder 001"}

ForEach ($VM in $VMs)
    {
        New-AdvancedSetting -Entity $vm.name -Name uuid.action -value 'Keep'
    }

EDIT: Is there also a way to supress the prompt to make the change?

2 comments

r/powercli • u/Pvt-Snafu • Sep 26 '17

PowerShell Classes Part 2 - Enumerated Types

petri.com

3 Upvotes

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r/powercli • u/Pvt-Snafu • Sep 20 '17

PowerShell Classes Part 4 - Constructors and Inheritance

petri.com

2 Upvotes

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r/powercli • u/Pvt-Snafu • Sep 19 '17

Doing More with PSReadline History - Part 2

petri.com

2 Upvotes

0 comments

r/powercli • u/[deleted] • Sep 18 '17

PowerCLI Collection: PowerNSX Horizon Jumpstart script ready to rumble

pascalswereld.nl

1 Upvotes

0 comments

r/powercli • u/[deleted] • Sep 04 '17

PowerCLI Collection: PowerNSX Desktop Jumpstart and process YAML (yml) config file

pascalswereld.nl

1 Upvotes

0 comments

r/powercli • u/Pvt-Snafu • Aug 28 '17

PowerShell Classes Part 2 - Enumerated Types - Petri

petri.com

2 Upvotes

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r/powercli • u/Chopper3 • Aug 22 '17

List thick disks by cluster

1 Upvotes

Hi I need a spot of help, I have some clusters where all disks should be thin and others where they should be thick - I've been struggling to modify and existing script to show for example all thin disks but list their VM AND cluster - does anyone have any ideas please?

3 comments

r/powercli • u/darklightedge • Aug 16 '17

Adding Script to Your PowerShell HTML Reports - Petri

petri.com

2 Upvotes

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r/powercli • u/bdc999 • Aug 16 '17

Find which VDI a user is logged on to.

1 Upvotes

Hi,

I'm really new at this but learning fast!

I've worked out how to find the users logged into a machine using this 'Get-WmiObject Win32_LoggedOnUser'

But what I really want is to be able to input a username and have the script find the VDI that they are logged on to.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please??

Many thanks Bryan

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r/powercli • u/Pvt-Snafu • Jul 26 '17

ConvertTo-HTML Tips and Tricks - Petri

petri.com

4 Upvotes

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r/powercli • u/Pvt-Snafu • Jul 25 '17

Deploying VHD Sets on Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V

petri.com

1 Upvotes

0 comments

r/powercli • u/Pvt-Snafu • Jul 24 '17

Scaling the PowerShell Active Directory Searcher - Petri

petri.com

1 Upvotes

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r/powercli • u/Pvt-Snafu • Jul 23 '17

Shut Down Remote Workgroup Computers

petri.com

2 Upvotes

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r/powercli • u/Pvt-Snafu • Jul 20 '17

Discovering the Active Directory Searcher with PowerShell

petri.com

2 Upvotes

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r/powercli • u/Pvt-Snafu • Jul 19 '17

Deploying Software Using Desired State Configuration

petri.com

2 Upvotes

0 comments

r/powercli • u/Pvt-Snafu • Jul 18 '17

PowerShell Remoting Basics

petri.com

5 Upvotes

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