Comments on: PowerCLI: Scripting ESXi

By: kailab

kailab — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:53:13 +0000

Thanks Allen, Really helpful..

Clint — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:13:40 +0000

I stumbled across this way to enable and disable lockdown mode.

$hostview = get-vmhost $host | get-view
$hostview.EnterLockdownMode()

$hostview.ExitLockdownMode()

Todd — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:16:31 +0000

Just a note about setting the password

Powershell will interpret the $ in the password as a string reference. You can see this if you type:

echo MyPa$$!

The solution is to create a variable like this:

$password = ‘MyPa$$!’
Set-VMHostAccount -UserAccount root -password $password

Set-VMHostAccount -UserAccount root -password ‘MyPa$$!’

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Virtu-Al — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:15:31 +0000

Thanks Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:13:02 +0000

Great Job ! thanks again !

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Alan Renouf — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:05:46 +0000

Thanks Cody, If Im missing anything please let me know.

Cody — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:02:49 +0000

Good post. Was fighting some of this myself, it’s great to have it all in one spot.