San Diego VMware Users Group Meeting

San Diego VMUG Meeting
The next San Diego VMUG meeting will be held on October 22nd,
this will feature a recap of VMworld 2009 as well as
special guest Carter Shanklin from VMware to discuss
PowerShell and how to automate your vSphere environment.

Date: Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Time
: 12:30pm – 5:30pm *Lunch Will Be Provided*
Location
: CareFusion – 3750 Torrey View Court, San Diego, CA 92130
Topics
: PowerShell and VMworld 2009

Agenda

12:30pm – 1:00pm — Registration & Lunch Pick-Up
1:00pm – 1:15pm — Introductions
1:15pm – 2:00pm — Ask the Experts / Bloopers Session
2:00pm – 2:45pm — Vizioncore vEcoShell Presentation
2:45pm – 3:00pm — Break
3:00pm – 4:00pm — Carter Shanklin on VMware PowerCLI
4:00pm – 5:00pm — VMworld 2009 Recap – Whats New
5:00pm – 5:30pm — Giveaways & Open Forum Discussion

We have a very special guest lined up for this meeting.  Carter Shanklin, PowerCLI Product Manager at VMware will be joining us to discuss everything about automation and scripting.  We will also feature a presentation by Vizioncore on their vEcoShell product line and how it helps streamline automation to a whole new level!  JOIN US FOR THIS GREAT EVENT!


Created on October 21, 2009 by Rick Scherer

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Another HealthCheck script for the Arsenal

In the VTMN Communities, William Lam, created a new HealthCheck script that I will be definietely adding to my HealthCheck Arsenal.  More information on the script and its usage can be found in the VTMN Communities posting.

The script reports on the following:

  • vCenter Build/Release
  • ESX/ESXi Build/Release
  • Cluster(s) Name/Statistics (Hosts,CPU and MEM availabity, HA,DRS and DPM enabled)
  • ESX/ESXi Hardware configuration (NICs/HBAs)
  • ESX/ESXi State
  • ESX/ESXi Config (WIP)
  • ESX/ESXi Datastore summary
  • Virtual Machines summary
  • VM Storage summary
  • VM Network summary
  • VM w/Snapshots
  • VM w/RDMs
  • VM w/NPIV enabled
  • VM w/connected CD-ROMs
  • VM w/connected Floppys

For more details, please take a look at the sample report located at here. The requirements for this script are: vCenter 2.5, ESX(i) 3.5, VI-Perl Toolkit or VIMA.

Just like Duncan states, this script can be compared to the PowerShell HealthCheck scripts and the Service Console script.


Created on February 2, 2009 by Rick Scherer

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Mass VM Shutdown Script

Well, if you haven’t already figured out I’m big on shell scripts and Unix/Linux in general, so when my company informed me that they needed to bring down one of our NetApp FAS clusters for system maintenance, the wheels in my head started turning.  I’m sorry this isn’t in our beloved Powershell scripting language, but I’m old school and needed to write a shell based script to gracefully shutdown all my virtual machines.

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Created on January 16, 2009 by Rick Scherer

Posted under ESX 3.5 Tips, ESXi 3.5 Tips.

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