powershell – vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128)

March 26, 2018 Hersey

SimpliVity VM Data to SimpliVity Host Mapping

A quick powershell script using the SimpliVity REST API I put together to identify the location of VM primary data and secondary data.

SimpliVity

November 13, 2017 Hersey

Quick SimpliVity Daily Backup Report Powershell Script

Just a quick powershell script I put together for a customer which uses the SimpliVity REST API to generate a report of the SimpliVity Backups taken in the last 24 hours.

SimpliVity vHersey

April 3, 2017 Hersey

Copy SimpliVity Backups to another SimpliVity Cluster

I put together a powershell script which uses the SimpliVity REST API to automate copying backups across OmniStack Clusters.

PowerCLI Storage vHersey

March 13, 2017 Hersey

Collect Virtual Disk IOPS with PowerCLI

I was messing around with PowerCLI and the real-time statistics to collect the IOPS used by virtual machines/virtual machine disks in my my home lab. Virtual disk performance counters are available in the real-time performance stats but at the default statistics level, Level 1, with the IOPS statistics are not rolled up into the daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly statistics. I put together a PowerCLI script, collect-iops.ps1, to collect the real-time samples.

SimpliVity vHersey

January 30, 2017 Hersey

SimpliVity Custom Backup Scheduling Using the REST API

SimpliVity Backups are Policy-based and VM-Centric. SimpliVity Backup Policies automate the protection of virtual machines in order to meet Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). Full virtual machines or individual files/folders with virtual machines can be quickly restored to the point in time when the backup was taken. This post provides a solution for using the REST API to schedule SimpliVity backups outside of the standard options available when creating backup policy rules.

vHersey VMware

January 5, 2017 Hersey

Add an Entry to ESXi /etc/hosts using PowerShell

I was looking for away to easily add an entry to an ESXi host’s /etc/hosts file without using SSH to connect to the host. ESXi has a file management interface which can be accessed with standard GET/PUT operations. I put together a quick example of doing this with PowerShell using Invoke-WebRequest.

SimpliVity vHersey VMware

December 22, 2016 Hersey

Locating SimpliVity Manual Backups

Policy based SimpliVity backups have a retention period defined in the backup policy. When the retention period expires the backup is removed from the system. When a Manual SimpliVity Backup is taken, no retention period is set and the backup will never expire. This post provides some details on how to locate Manual SimpliVity Backups using the vSphere Web Client or the SimpliVity REST API.

PowerCLI SimpliVity VMware

July 22, 2016 Hersey

DR Automation using SimpliVity’s REST API

I was working with a partner last week brainstorming different ways the SimpliVity REST API could be leveraged to simplify and automate the recovery of workloads protected using SimpliVity’s data protection to a Disaster Recovery site.

PowerCLI vHersey

January 23, 2016 Hersey

PowerShell Basic – Quick Mass Filename Rename

Just a quick snip of PowerShell for renaming files or folders in mass.

PowerCLI Storage vHersey

January 18, 2016 Hersey

VM Guest Volume Blocksize Report

This is just a quick script I put together for a fellow SA to generate a HTML Report contianing details on the configured volumes for all running Windows Guest VMs. The HTML report shows the Name, Label, Filesystem Type, Allocation Unit (Blocksize), Capacity, and Free Space.

PowerCLI SimpliVity vHersey VMware

August 10, 2015 Hersey

Change IP Address on Windows 2012 VMs with PowerCLI

Just a quick script I put together to change the IP Address of Windows 2012 (including R2) virtual machines using PowerCLI.