We have strict logon policy on VMware Management servers like vCenter, View connection brokers etc. We have been looking for a solution to get alerts when someone RDP to the Management Servers (all are Windows 2008/2012).
Combination of Windows Task Scheduler and PowerShell script did the tick.
1. The following Powershell script “Get-RDPUser.ps1” will get the last terminal server (RDP) session details and send e-mail to the team in HTML table format.
Its a one liner for getting HBA details of all hosts connected to a vCenter Server.
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Connect-VIServer vCenter1
get-vmhost | Get-VMHostHba -Type FibreChannel |
Select VMHost,Device, model,Driver,PortWorldWideName,NodeWorldWideName |
Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation c:\output\HBA-details.csv
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Its a tiny script to find the IP address, DNS and WINS server of a windows VM. Its an example for invoking guest scripts through PowerCLI.
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Connect-VIServer vcenterserver1
get-vm -Name vmname | %{
$_.Name; $_ | Invoke-VMScript -GuestUser “test” -GuestPassword “test” -ScriptType Bat -ScriptText “netsh interface ipv4 show addresses” -HostUser “test1” -hostpassword “test1”
$_.Name; $_ | Invoke-VMScript -GuestUser “test” -GuestPassword “test” -ScriptType Bat -ScriptText “netsh interface ipv4 show dnsservers” -HostUser “test1” -hostpassword “test1”
$_.Name; $_ | Invoke-VMScript -GuestUser “test” -GuestPassword “test” -ScriptType Bat -ScriptText “netsh interface ipv4 show winsservers” -HostUser “test1” -hostpassword “test1”
}
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By adding few parameters to View Client shortcut we can save some time daily while connecting to the desktop. Follow the below mentioned steps if the domain login credential for View desktop and local machine are same.
1. Right click the View Client shortcut and select Properties.
2. If the View client installation is done at the default directory then the Target will be like this.
“C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc.exe”
Append parameters -loginascurrentuser, -server, -desktopname and -interactive to Target.
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We had a requirement to find the VM with RDM which holds specific naa ID. The following one-liner made our task easy.
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Get-VM | Get-HardDisk-DiskType”RawPhysical”,”RawVirtual” | where {$_.ScsiCanonicalName -eq “naa.60008ac00071254a”} |
Select-Object Parent, ScsiCanonicalName
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Its a simple script for exporting VM details to HTML format. The HTML report created will be saved into the folder with the name of current month. It will help in generating a daily report with the help of Windows Task Scheduler. Refer this article for scheduling PowerCLI script.
Following details will be collected.
1. No of VMs in the vCenter.
2. No of Hosts connected in vCenter.
3. PowerState of VMs, IP address, Base ESX host, Cluster Name.
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ESXi 5.1 has the ability to show allowed VLANs on physical NICs (vmnic). By default this option is not enabled on NICs. We have to enable explicitly and gather the VLAN details. Please find the script below which will help you to enable the VLAN STATS on the NICs which have the LINK status UP.
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Here is the script to generate the list of All VMS, VMs with RDMs and VMs without RDMs in a cluster.
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