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Code snippet – report VMs with CD-ROM/floppy and the device status

Andreas Lesslhumer 15. July 2012 0 PowerCli Snippets CDROM, connect, device, floppy, powercli, report, script, status

This script will report all VMs with a connected CD-ROM/floppy device (incl. information about the device status – eg. connected, connect at power on, client device,…) Just fill in the name of your vCenter Server in the first line: Connect-VIServer…
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Code snippet – find/report all ballooning VMs

Andreas Lesslhumer 15. July 2012 0 PowerCli Snippets ballooning, powercli, report, script, VM

This script will help you to find all ballooning VMs: Just fill in the name of your vCenter Server in the first line: Connect-VIServer vCenter_Server $vms = Get-VM Get-Stat -Entity $vms -Realtime -Stat mem.vmmemctl.average -MaxSamples 1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | where…
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Code snippet – Report with VM name, LUN name, vmdk file and path

Andreas Lesslhumer 15. July 2012 1 PowerCli Snippets cluster, datacenter, datastore, hard disc, name, path, powercli, report, script, VM, vmdk

This script will write the following information into a .csv file: .) name of the virtual machine (VM) .) datacenter name .) cluster name .) hard disc .) datastore name .) path and name of the .vmdk file Just fill…
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