Tag: PowerShell
Create and Assign a Custom Attribute for Virtual Machines in vCenter Using PowerShell
Introduction: Managing a large number of virtual machines in vCenter can be challenging, especially when you need to keep track of specific information for each…
Exploring PowerShell: Understanding a Script to Move VMware Virtual Machines to a specific folder.
PowerShell is a powerful automation tool used to manage and automate Windows-based systems. With its rich set of commands, it can help administrators perform various…
PowerShell to bulk remove VIBs from multiple ESXi hosts (putting hosts in MM mode beforehand)
During my last upgrade from vSphere 6.7 to vSphere 7.0 on one of my clusters, I come across the issue with VIBs. Of course, the…
PowerCLI and PowerShell cheat sheet
Here are commands, every vSphere admin should know: List of available interfaces and physical network cards (vmkernel + vmnic): Adding another interface (vmkernel to vMotion)…
A general system error occurred: Exceeded the maximum number of permitted snapshots” error when creating a virtual machine snapshot
Before upgrading my NSX-T nodes I wanted to take a snapshot. To my surprise, I was not able to do so, as I received an…
PowerCLI 12.7 is here and packed with a lot of new features!
The new version of PowerCLI has been released. The release has number 12.7 and is packed with new and exciting features. Along with improving the…
Black Basta Ransomware is now actively targeting VMware ESXi servers – Protect your environment!
What is Black Basta? Researchers from Uptycs reported that Linux version of Black Basta ransomware is now actively targeting ESXi servers, previously targeting Windows systems….
How to determine if my virtual machines have a USB controller attached and how to remove it?
In the wake of recent published VMSA-2022-0004 admins can wonder how to determine if Virtual Machine has a USB controller attached. Now thanks to PowerCLI it…
FIX: After upgrade PowerCLI to 12.5 there is no Get-VIApplianceService Command
You may come accross that after updating your PowerCLI module to version 12.5, you cannot run Get-VIApplianceService command. Even that your modules shows correct version….
PowerShell – WARNING: Unable to resolve package source ‘https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2’.
I was going to update the PowerCLI module to version 12.5 once I received the above error. The first thing I was going to try…
