The VMware Community PowerPack is a community driven project which enables us as VMware admins to share our day to day problems and fixes through the format of scripts with a nice GUI front end making it even easier for us all to help each other out as at the end of the day we are all managing the same systems and probably hitting some of the same issues or requests for information.
The PowerPack contains a variety of scripts from Virtu-al.net and now other blogs such as ict-freak.nl, van-lieshout.com and ntpro.nl transformed and enhanced into a useful PowerPack for PowerGUI.
What Do I need ?
In order to use this PowerPack you will need the following:
- PowerShell V2
- PowerCLI 4.0 U1 or later version
- PowerGUI with the VMware PowerPack
- Download the VMware Community PowerPack from below
Download
Download VMware Community PowerPack for PowerGUI
Installing
Here is a short video I shot a while back of me installing the Virtu-Al PowerPack, the process is pretty similar if you use PowerGUI or vEcoShell but you will not need to download the VMware PowerPack if you use vEcoShell as it is built in….
Automatically update
To see how to import a PowerPack and how to make sure you always have the latest version check this post here: http://www.virtu-al.net/2009/10/29/vesi-powergui-powerpack-management/
How can I contribute ?
At the moment I am trying to come up with a better method but please do send any updates or additions you make over to me in an email, I will make sure these are added to the PowerPack.
If you have a good idea but do not know anything about PowerCLI then please add your idea as a comment to the bottom of this page where one of the frequent updaters will no doubt run with it !
Can I be notified of PowerPack updates ?
If you are a twitter user then follow VMWCPP here: http://twitter.com/VMWCPP
FAQ
Why does the community PowerPack not have a connection method ?
You will need to connect using the connection through the original VMware PowerPack, this is a conscious decision as the intent is not to replicate the great work done as part of that PowerPack but purely to add functionality for every day VMware Information needed by consultants and VMware Admins.
When I click a node it says I am unconnected even though I made a connection ?
Please make sure you are using the latest version of PowerCLI, this is a known issue with pervious version of PowerCLI.
Screenshots
Could you able to add all the stale power on VM’s which hasn’t been used from x days. different parameters to be used would be no lastlogin user through VM console, no heartbeat of the OS to the HA cluster,no nic utilization beyond 5kbps with last bootstrap time or no usage through of the VM through all the windows/linux protocols, it will greatly help on finding the power on which hasn’t used from x days.
I get the same thing. Did you ever fix this?
Thanks for the amazing work. I’d like to get a little help with this error:
Cannot validate argument on parameter ‘VIObject’. The argument is null or empty. Supply an argument that is not null or empty and then try the command again. (Get-View) At line: 65 char: 22
This happens while trying to get the “General/vCheck” under the powerpack…
When I try to execute ESX Network Info script with my vCenter server, I don’t get any output whereas for all others I am able to retrieve info. Is there a reason why this might be failing?
Excellent post, is there a way to find out storage LUN mapping information with Datastores. Please help
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