PowerCLI function to increase VM storage capacity
We recently had a customer that we onboarded for a managed service. Part of this service is that we monitor the OS and it turned…
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PowerCLI: Fetch ESXi Install Date in mixed environments
Recently I got asked to create an overview for a license audit we were receiving. Nothing all to difficult is what I thought at first.…
Update VM storage timestamp using PowerCLI
The company I work for uses the vSphere API for all kinds of purposes. Usually this works great however one of our programs returned some…
PowerCLI: Limits & Reservations on VM’s
This script is also already from a while ago, but I'm posting this because it might be useful to anyone that is currently investigating virtual…
Quick and easy mass creation of portgroups
A couple of months ago we had to create hundreds of portgroups on a dvSwitch on one of our environments. Doing this manually is pretty…
Testing vCenter Simulator in Docker Playground
On the 31st of december I read a very nice post over at brianbunke.com on running a simulated vCenter with govcsim. Simulated is maybe a…
Remove VIB’s through PowerCLI
Today we had an issue with one of our older vSphere ESXi hosts which is version 5.5. The vSphere environment which holds these ESXi hosts…