Failed to run PowerCLI command

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:

Show CDP Neighbor of Cisco UCS Uplinks

There are two ways to know which network switch ports the network uplinks of Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects are connected to. By CLI SSH to the Cisco UCS Manager. Connect to FI-A. # connect nxos a Show neighbor of network uplinks. # show cdp neighbor interface ethernet <port num> By PowerShell Make sure Cisco PowerTool … Read more

How To Find Non-tagged ESXi Hosts

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

Automatic vSphere Capacity Report in PPT

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

How to Integrate PowerCLI 6.5 with PowerShell and PowerShell ISE

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