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How to use PowerShell to clear vSphere Alarms. An example of clearing all Remote Syslog Connection Error alarms using PowerCLI.
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Resources from my session at the UK VMware UserGroup UserCon 2023: SRM on a budget- Automating vSphere Replication.
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Using PowerShell and PowerCLI to manage vSphere Replication. A first glance at the new module included in PowerCLI 13.1. A long-requested feature for vSphere Replication has been the ability to manage it from code, using VMware’s PowerShell Module “PowerCLI”. Management of the (paid-for) Site Recovery Manager (SRM) …
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How to throttle vSAN resync traffic in vSphere 7.0. Resync throttling has been a feature of vSAN since version 6.6 (April 2017) and the functionality to set it existed in the vSphere Client GUI through to 6.7 before it was removed. However, you still have the ability to perform this throttling using PowerCLI. There is …
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What to do when a PowerCLI upgrade to 12.6 fails with a certificate issuer error. Symptoms Updating the module in the normal way: 1update-module vmware.powercli Returns the Error 1Install-Package: Authenticode issuer 'E=noreply@vmware.com, CN="VMware, Inc.", O="VMware, Inc.", L=Palo Alto, S=California, C=US' of the …
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If you’re auditing your vSphere hardware inventory here’s a PowerShell/ PowerCLI snippet to show the Vendor, Model, and Serial Number of all the ESXi hosts in your environment.
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If you’re having to audit or troubleshoot your ESXi host patching and need a full list of connections from LLDP then this PowerCLI can help. Code on Github
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By joining PowerCLI to interrogate a VMware vSphere environment and the Webhook API to post Microsoft Teams messages, we can send informational reports on the state of a virtual environment to channels in Teams. In this example I have a weekly report on the number of hosts and VMs in an environment. This is fairly …
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A recent Slack chat reminded me that PowerShell’s Get-Command cmdlet is a good way of finding what commands to use when you encounter a new problem. However it goes beyond typing Get-Command and just getting a huge list back- my laptop just gave me 7659 commands to choose from – as this can be unusable. Here’s some …
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