I work with a lot of scheduled tasks. Typically, these tasks run powershell scripts from the Windows Task Scheduler. However, when working with simple VMware tasks (like creating snapshots right before a maintenance window) I like to use the Scheduled Tasks feature from right inside vCenter. The other day I…
I had an interesting request the other day. A co-worker had two CSV files containing mailbox information from the same Exchange server, but from different parts of the day. He wanted to know if there was any way to find which users had the most growth in their mailbox size.…
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…