Month: March 2016

Cleanup VMs in vCenter using PowerCLI.

Cleanup VMs in vCenter using PowerCLI. Cleanup VMs in vCenter using PowerCLI. – Thought to share my experience on cleaning up some VMs using PowerCLI. The action item was to scan a csv file which consists of a list of…
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Download Technical WhitePapers from VMware Site – PowerShell

Download Technical WhitePapers from VMware Site – PowerShell Here is an automated script which will download all the technical white papers through vmware.com, We are using a combination of both the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet and the Start-BitsTransfer cmdlet. I had to…
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VMware NSX Edge High Availability – PowerShell Config

VMware NSX Edge High Availability VMware NSX Edge High Availability – In this blog post we would look at how to enable HighAvailability on an NSX edge. When we create an Edge we have the option to enable high availability,…
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VMware NSX Edge Load Balancing – PowerShell Config

VMware NSX Edge Load Balancing VMware NSX Edge Load Balancing – In this blogpost we would look at the benefits of why we need load balancing and also look at how to configure it in an NSX edge using GUI…
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VMware NSX Edge SNAT vs DNAT – PowerShell Config

VMware NSX Edge SNAT vs DNAT VMware NSX Edge SNAT vs DNAT – In this blog we would be looking at the differences between SNAT and DNAT and also look at ways to automate their configuration using PowerShell and NSX…
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SuperFast Get-VM cmdlet PowerCli 6.3 R1

SuperFast Get-VM cmdlet PowerCli 6.3 R1 SuperFast Get-VM cmdlet PowerCli 6.3 R1 – PowerCLI the best automation tool for vSphere came out with the latest release of v 6.3 R1, and the speeds are just phenomenal. In this post i thought…
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Getting Started with PowerNSX.

Getting Started with PowerNSX. Getting Started with PowerNSX – Lately i had been doing posts on how to automate various NSX tasks by invoking NSX API calls with PowerShell. Then i found a community driven module created for NSX, although it…
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Hair-pinning Solved with VMware NSX DLR

Hair-pinning Solved with VMware NSX DLR Hair-pinning Solved with VMware NSX DLR – In this short blogpost we would be discussing the advantages of deploying NSX DLR in your environment and how it can avoid hair-pinning. So what is Hair-pinning ? – Lets…
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VMware NSX Logical Switch and DLR Configuration

VMware NSX Logical Switch and DLR Configuration VMware NSX Logical Switch and DLR config via GUI-API – Logical switches are broadcast domains which basically allow you to create a business units/contexts out of VM’s , and allows you to control whether the…
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