VCF HoloDeck issue certicate issue? or not?
Introduction I've been playing around with the VCF HoloDeck tookit lately to explore how we would like to use VCF. This toolkit provides a fully…
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Async methods in vSphere Web Services API
Today I had an experience that was not very different than some of the 'I was today years old' memes which are floating on the…
PowerCLI: Function to import VMX files from a datastore
Recently we've had to revert to migrating a customer through cloning virtual machines to a lun on a 'migration storage box' after which we had…
Provision vSphere VMs using Terraform
Recently I got asked to provision a number of identical VMs. Now usually I resort to PowerCLI for this task, but this time I thought…
Creating a nested ESXi server in vCloud Director
Back in 2018 William Lam released a special virtual appliance version of the ESXi 6.7 image as an OVA. Now you might wonder why would…
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…
Automate VM image creation using Packer
Recently someone sent out a request via Twitter on how to automatically update images. I suggested using Hashicorp Packer but not with the default vmware-iso…
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…