Over the last couple of days, I have posted a handful of PowerCLI scripts to check a vSphere environment. These checks have looked at general cluster level reporting, networking and virtual machines. Today I’m posting a couple of checks that look at datastores. I hope you find these checks useful.…
I’ve recently posted a series of vSphere checks based on PowerCLI. The following couple of checks apply to virtual machines. The following check looks for virtual machines where the ‘toolsUpgradePolicy’ is set to manual. I like to change this value to ‘upgradeAtPowerCycle’ which causes virtual machines (which are already running…
The following check will compare the BIOS versions of the ESX hosts in a cluster and verify they are all at a consistent level. The check makes use of a $Clusters variable, which can be created using the following line of code: $clusters = Get-Cluster This check will look for…
The following two sections of code can be ran independently or used in conjunction with Alan Renouf’s vCheck script. They return network specific issues that could happen in a vSphere environment. The first check makes use of a $clusters variable, which can be created using the following line of code:…
A year or so ago, I had added some generic sections to Alan Renouf’s vCheck 5 script, which I was using to report on several environments that I managed. A few months ago, Alan released a new version of vCheck 6. I decided to re-write a couple of these checks…