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Use PowerCLI to apply your vSAN storage policy
I noticed that VM’s created with the vSphere fat client, were not getting the vSAN storage policy applied to them. So they we’re not as protected as one might think. I wanted to make sure that all the VM’s living on vSanDatastore were protected by the vSAN storage policy. I wrote a quick PowerCLI script […]
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Managing your VMware environment with CloudForms – CloudForms VMware Tools Upgrade method
blog.reversion.org – CloudForms VMware Tools Upgrade method: I wrote a method a while back to allow me to upgrade VMware tools from within the CloudForms interface. I thought I would share it. I usually create a VM button to call the method, but it could probably be used elsewhere with some tweaking. Matt Hyclak writes another […]
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Using the CloudForms SOAP API for daily provision reports
My coworker Matt Hyclak, posted a great blog post on using the CloudForms SOAP API to create a CSV output of daily system builds for importing into our legacy CMDB. Check out his blog post here: Using the CloudForms SOAP API for daily provision reports Matt is a Solutions Architect with CBTS (Cincinnati Bell Technology […]
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Using PowerShell to Install SNMP and configure Community, Location and Contact on Windows 2008
One of the steps needed to onboard a system into our monitoring tools is to configure SNMP. If the customer template does not have SNMP pre-configured, or is not using GPO to do it; it quickly becomes a painfully slow speed-bump. Last night I threw together the PowerShell script below to: Install SNMP services Configure SNMP […]
Tags: PowerShell, SNMP
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