VMware Virtualization, Cloud Management & Automation
Do you currently or have you ever wanted to schedule the execution of PowerShell scripts with Windows Task Scheduler? If so, there are some considerations you should be aware of surrounding the security of those scripts. For example, it wouldn’t be difficult for a user to alter a script to decrypt and export encrypted credentials….
In the past, I’ve posted some guides for replacing the default self-signed vCenter certificate with a free, trusted Let’s Encrypt 90 Day certificate. I recently started to look into generating the free SSL using an ACME client and stumbled across this PowerShell module Posh-ACME (Credit to Ryan Bolger – https://github.com/rmbolger for this module). I decided to…
I stumbled across this error the other day in my environment No Connection to VR Server: Unknown. I then found the following workaround in this VMware KB https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2148376, which worked nicely. The issue was becoming a little frequent, so I decided to wrap up this solution with a nice little PowerShell function found on my Github page. Thanks for…
Some time ago, I needed to audit all vSAN storage policies over multiple vCenter environments and confirm all the advanced policy rules were all set correctly. The process meant going through dozens of storage policies via the vSphere Web Client and documenting all the rules in a spreadsheet. This task was going to be tedious,…
Occasionally, you may need to download virtual machine files from the Datastore. For example, If vSphere HA resets virtual machines, there is a good chance just before it reset it, vSphere HA VM monitoring took a screenshot of the VM console, storing it with the VM configuration files on the Datastore. Reset by vSphere HA. Reason: VMware…