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This post is a writeup of a project for a master’s class in Decision Support Systems at Murray State. This is my first dive into VMware PowerCLI aside from some one shots. All feedback is welcome. Our Problems Problem 1: Servers are not being virtualized due to a decentralized procurement process A decentralized server procurement process presents many problems to an organization. There are many gains with standardizing OS/hardware platforms. Problem 2: Servers are not being virtualized because knowledge is required to make “Virtualize/Don’t Virtualze” decision...

We have a problem that a lot of VI administrators (especially us young ones) run into - VM Sprawl. In attempting to reduce the chaos and get a much better understanding of our virtual infrastructure I’ve run into a very helpful cmdlet provided in the VI Toolkit. This tutorial is intended for the complete novice. Step 1: Get your system set up for VI Toolkit. Download PowerShell. Download the VI Toolkit....

This has been a pretty fun project at work and I think it could benefit a lot of people, so I’ve decided to post a modified version of my documentation. It’s a DRAFT and not quite yet in production. I’m still working through a lot of the process. Here’s what I’ve learned… There’s an awful lot of noise (and even worse, quite a bit of actual material) to wrap your mind around when doing a Disaster Recovery plan for virtual machines....

Not really a one-liner when you try to make it readable… With help from halr9000… Calculate disk usage of all Linux Guest Virtual Machines: [sourcecode language=‘jscript’]get-vm | where { $_.Guest.OSFullName -match “Linux” -band $_.Guest.state -eq “Running” } | Get-HardDisk | measure-object -sum CapacityKB[/sourcecode]