You may see the following errors. “an assertion failure has occurred“ “The ‘connect-viserver’ command was found in the module ‘VMware.VimAutomation.Core’, but the module could not be loaded. For moreinformation, run ‘Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Core’.“ There are several possible reasons:
Validating connection result of Connect-VIServer is trick since VMware doesn’t use the standard way of throwing errors.
There are plenty of scripts to find tagged ESXi hosts. But what if you want to find out all ESXi hosts not be tagged? Following is a simple script: Compare-Object ((Get-VMHost | Get-TagAssignment).Entity | select -uniq) (Get-VMHost) The output is similar like following: InputObject SideIndicator ———– ————- esx1 => esx2 => esx3 => … Read more
Reporting is important to management. To be a IT Pro, you may need to run regular reports for management. Some reports may be generated time consume. vRealize Operations Manager is an alternative to create customized reports. It’s a powerful product to organize data and create PDF or CSV files on scheduled intervals. I recommend have … Read more
I wrote an article to introducing how to integrate PowerCLI with PowerShell and PowerShell ISE. VMware just released PowerCLI 6.5 R1, it includes lot of new features and modules. And somehow my way doesn’t work. Following is new way to integrate PowerCLI 6.5 with PowerShell and PowerShell ISE in Windows 10. PowerShell and PowerShell ISE … Read more
早先我有写一篇文章关于如何手工整合PowerCLI和PowerShell。最近重装了系统，不得不再做一次。以前我习惯用PowerGUI写脚本，但不知道怎么搞的PowerGUI总是丢失菜单界面，这困扰了我很久一直没办法完全解决，所以这次我在想能不能把PowerCLI和PowerShell整合了一劳永逸，毕竟内置的好用一些啊。
获取RDM磁盘信息是一件很磨人的事儿，如果你很仔细你就需要把每台都检查一遍以确保信息是一致的。研究出来两行命令，可以批量获取RDM磁盘信息。
It’s frustration to check RDM information, you have to check across all ESXi hosts to make sure configuration is aligned. I just figured out two line commands to get path selection policy (aka PSP).
I always treat virtual machine snapshots like a big risk. It caused several outages in our infrastructure. Please check out Best practices for virtual machine snapshots in the VMware to understand how it impacts production.
虚拟机快照对我来说绝对是个大威胁，已经在我的生产环境里发生过好几次由此引发的故障了。如果你要了解快照对生产环境的影响可以看看：Best practices for virtual machine snapshots in the VMware
