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Hi,

I saw your DailyReport script and it looks great but did not see any instructions on what is required to run it? Do you perhaps have some detail installation instructions for this, I’m sorry but I’m new to powershell.

Thanks

Hi!

Very Nice Script!
A very nice to have feature in the script would be if it showed the last 10-20 created machines. Is that possible? Something you allready thought of?

Regards,
Joakim

Hi I am looking at your nice Health check script, Can we download it is it free to use?

Regards

Amer

Al,

I ran across your “Audit Script” on poshcode.com. There is a parser error that keeps coming up near the end and it looks like the file got cut off. Do you have any thoughts so I could try this?

Thanks,

Charlie

Hi Al,

I use your script regularly, but i hate flat file and i love wiki. so i change some bits to fit my needs and know i can automatically integrate my Vm Environment in my (self wiki made) CMDB

Many thanks’ for your base script , and try mine if you have time

Ph Koenig
Aka UnclePhil

UnclePhil, what CMDB are you integrating with? I would love to see the results you get with your script.

I bumped into your site by accident and I seem to have stumbled on a pot of gold. I’m a PowerShell beginner and wanted to know how to properly run your Audit.PS1 script. When I run it on my test machine (right click and Run with PowerShell), the PowerShell windows comes up and then disappears about 10 seconds later. Is there something I’m doing wrong? Thanks for your time.

Man that was quick!! Silly me…..I have “Set-ExecutionPolicy Restricted” at the tail end of a script that runs daily to query some basic Exchange information. That must have blocked it. Thanks a bunch for pointing me in the right direction. I’ll continue to be an avid reader of your blog.

Suggestion for a script, may not be easy.
Basic idea is that VMotion can screw up the auto-start for VMs (turn it off), why not have a script that runs daily and resets the desired auto-start of one’s important VMs??
There is I know a best practice for restarting VMs, it’s something like: AD/DNS virtual server if there is one (we also have a physical one), Virtual Center server, then other servers as desired.
One might or might not have DRS enabled, one likely has HA started.
Perhaps the user must create a text file with a list of VM names and a note about what is the VM’s function.
The script could look at this list, compare it to the existing list of VMs on the host, then do what is necessary to ensure the VMs are correctly set to auto-start, plus send a message to someone about this too.
It could become an adjunct to vCheck Daily Report??
Thank you for reading this, Tom

Hi

I new on poweshell, but it seem to be great tool.
I tryed dailyreport with the folowing problem.

Please specify a VI Server name eg….
powershell.exe DailyReport.ps1

What have i missed?
BR
Patrik

Awesome work all around!!! Really appreciate your scripts. Thank you.

I have noticed a new problem cropping up in vSphere 4. It seems that they added NUMA verification to the lastest code. So if your hosts do not have the correct memory layout then you will get errors on your ESX host. Is it possible to add a VESI script to check for memory layout? Maybe a best practice query?

Thanks,
Marc

I saw a webinar today that showed your powerpack for the virtualization echoshell.
Where can I download this?

Hi Alan,

I’ve been using your daily checks scripts for sometime now and can honestly say it helps me immeasurably.

We’ve recently upgraded our backup solution to a product that fully integrates with the new change block tracking features in the vStorage API. However, to get this fully working i need to add and set the ctkEnabled=true value in the configuration paraments as well as adding and setting the scsi0:0.ctkEnabled = true value for each virtual disk.

Is there an easy we to do this with powershell other than updating each VM indiviually?

Thanks

Graham

Hi Alan,

Could you please help. I have just patched all my hosts and I need to upgrade the tools on the guests. Is it possible to pass the update-tools cmdlet a parameter such as remove=hgfs. from what I can see this has been deprecated in PowerCli 4.0U1

Thanks
Simon