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Jonathan Medd. PowerCLI Workshop London VMUG. Je ne suis pas Alan Renouf Today’s theme is simple and practical examples to improve the management of your VMware Infrastructure What’s New? Reporting Useful One-Liners / Short Scripts Project Onyx VESI. Buy this book.
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Jonathan Medd PowerCLI Workshop London VMUG
Je ne suis pas Alan Renouf • Today’s theme is simple and practical examples to improve the management of your VMware Infrastructure • What’s New? • Reporting • Useful One-Liners / Short Scripts • Project Onyx • VESI
Buy this book Two ebook copies to give away to those who ask / answer questions
You should also get this Practical PowerCLI examples side-by-side vSphere topics
PowerCLI 4.0 U1 is out! • More than 60 new cmdlets since the last release earlier this year • Cmdlet reference is now online - http://bit.ly/6Cx1s7 • vSpherePowerCLI Administration Guide http://bit.ly/08iWLQK • Virtu-Al’s summary of the new cmdlets http://bit.ly/8KMGdg
A few of the new cmdlets • Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -DefaultServerMode multiple • Stop-VMHost Server01 -Confirm (or –whatif) ;-) • Set-HardDisk -HardDisk $hd -CapacityKB $extendedCapacity -HostCredential $ hostCred -GuestCredential $guestCred
PowerShell 2.0 is out! • More than 100 new cmdlets since v1.0 • Installed by default in Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 • New features: Remoting, Advanced Functions, Background Jobs, ISE
vCheck (Daily Report) • Schedule this report to run every day in your environment • Have a person dedicated to working through highlighted issues each day – if possible rotate between team members, say weekly • http://bit.ly/24KTGe
vCheck Examples - Snapshots • Do you know every old Snapshot you have? • Hassle the Snapshot Creator • Manage those which are required to be kept
vCheck Examples – Too Many CPU’s • Weren’t aware of these until they turned up in the daily report • Could potentially cause some unnecessary high CPU %RDY times • All now down to 2 x vCPU
vCheck Examples – VM’s on Local Storage • Often created ‘temporarily’ whilst waiting for SAN space. Still there months later. • Could effect host maintenance since can’t be VMotioned
Find Host Version and Build • Get-VMHost | Get-View | Select-Object Name, @{N="Version";E={$_.config.product.version}}, @{N="Build";E={$_.config.product.build}} | Sort-Object Name | Export-CsvC:\Scripts\Hosts.csv -NoTypeInformation Demo: Get-View Exploring
Who’s seen one of these? Or three in one month? Three different servers, same model, same ESX version, same CPU error
Find Vendor, Model and Bios • Get-VMHost | Get-View | Select-Object Name, @{N="Vendor";E={$_.summary.hardware.vendor}}, @{N="Model";E={$_.summary.hardware.model}}, @{N="Bios Version";E={$_.hardware.biosinfo.biosversion}}, @{N="Release Date";E={$_.hardware.biosinfo.releasedate}} | Sort-Object Name | Export-Csv C:\Scripts\Bios.csv -NoTypeInformation Note: Some vendors don’t seem to be populating this information for all models
SVMotion • Moved entire production infrastructure between SAN’s in different data centres with no downtime simply by scheduling these commands • Get-VM Server01 | Move-VM –Datastore (Get-DataStore Datastore10) • Combine with Import-CSV to make it even easier for large batches • Watch out for VM’s with multiple disks in different datastores if you have multiple target datastores
Slot Size • What are ESX Slot Sizes? • ‘Prevent VMs from being powered on if they violate availability constraints’ • Cluster with seemingly plenty of capacity won’t power on VM’s. • Watch out for ‘expensive’ VM’s with CPU or Memory reservations, and / or vSMP
Project Onyx from PowerCLI team • Currently in Alpha • Think Macro Recorder for Excel • Best for automating things that can’t be automated using native PowerCLI cmdlets • Beats having to read the API documentation Project Onyx Demo
The VESI • Offshoot from Quest PowerGUI tool • PowerShell scripts bundled up into a GUI interface • Great for beginners to use PowerShell scripts before getting to grips with writing your own • Great for more advanced scripters wishing to share code VESI Demo
Resources • http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/ • http://www.virtu-al.net/ • http://lucd.info/ • PowerCLI community forum http://bit.ly/6BwTUS