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AutoScale Deployments in vRA 8.X with native PowerShell support

AutoScale Deployments in vRA 8.X with native PowerShell support.   One of the coolest features in vRA 8.X is the native support for PowerShell via the new functionality of vRA Polygot, you can read more about PolyGot on Tony’s blog…

September 22, 2020 · by Vinith · 0

Breakdown Multivalued vROPS Custom Properties / Metrics values to Separate Columns.

Its been a long time since I blogged on anything, got a tricky request from one of our large customers, they were running a vROPS report to get a set of vSphere tags for VM’s in their environment. vROPS did…

April 15, 2019 · by Vinith · 0

AutoScale vSphere Workloads with vRA and PowerShell based NetScaler NITRO API’s

AutoScale vSphere Workloads with vRA and NetScaler NITRO API’s Hello Folks – I hope all of you enjoyed our previous write-up in which we demonstrated how to Auto-scale a vSphere deployment with NSX. This blog post follows the similar setup…

June 7, 2017 · by Vinith · 3

Auto-Scale vRA workloads with vROPS,vRO and NSX.

Auto-Scale vRA workloads with vROPS,vRO and NSX. I am excited to put out a post on one of the greatest idea which had been in my mind for long 🙂 and its a solution to create a self healing data-center.…

May 6, 2017 · by Vinith · 9

Create Scheduled Tasks with PowerCLI to Call PowerShell Scripts.

Create Scheduled Tasks with PowerCLI to Call PowerShell Scripts. Recently i was involved in a very tricky situation with one of the customer, There was a set of performance metrics which had to be extracted from about 200 RDSH VM’s…

March 29, 2017 · by Vinith · 0

Integrate vRealize Business 7.1 with AWS India Accounts and PowerShell Scripts.

Integrate vRealize Business 7.1 with AWS India Accounts and PowerShell Scripts. I was going through a use case to integrate vRealize Business 7.1 with AWS accounts created based out of India, and noticed that eventhough all the necessary permissions to…

October 5, 2016 · by Vinith · 0

Getting Started with Altaro VM Backup and PowerShell.

Getting Started with Altaro VM Backup and PowerShell. Altaro VM Backup is an easy to use backup software solution for VMware. It’s built to back up and restore virtual machines. The Backup and Recovery process eliminate’s hassle and headaches with an…

July 3, 2016 · by Vinith · 1

Invoke Infoblox Rest API calls with PowerShell

Invoke Infoblox Rest API calls with PowerShell Invoke Infoblox Rest API calls with PowerShell  : In this blog post we would look at how we can leverage REST API’s provided by Infoblox and how we can use PowerShell to automate…

April 7, 2016 · by Vinith · 0

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…

March 31, 2016 · by Vinith · 0

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…

March 21, 2016 · by Vinith · 1