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Automated RVTools to PowerBI Dataset push / uploader

by vMan | May 16, 2021 | Powershell, vCenter

So this next post covers how to automagically pull data from RVTools and push the results into a PowerBI Dataset. After spotting @Kim_Bottu post over at vmusketeers, I realised that maybe there would be some interest from the community in my script to push datasets on...

Look mum no IIS, simple powershell webserver hosts file.

by vMan | Mar 12, 2021 | Powershell, Random

So I will keep this one short and sweet. It’s a simple script to run a webserver in Powershell which serves a file, hold on what? good gawd why, you say!?!?! because powershell that’s why! PS: It’s not my first rodeo with the light weight Powershell...

vRops – suite-api – createReport & downloadReport update!

by vMan | Feb 25, 2021 | Powershell, vRops

So it has been a while since I wrote a blog post, unfortunately lock down has made it difficult to find time with work and family commitments. This does not mean I don’t have new content to post about… it just means I have no time to write posts! So this...

DRS – Tracking changes & alerting through vRops

by vMan | Mar 16, 2020 | Monitoring, Powershell, vCenter, vRops

With this next post I provide a solution to track DRS rules over time in vRops, you can then use vRops to alert on any changes by defining custom symptoms / alerts! Anyone that manages large vSphere environments knows how painful it can be to track DRS rule / group...

vSAN – Tracking storage policies in vROPS

by vMan | Mar 1, 2020 | Monitoring, Powershell, vRops, vSAN

This following post is for anyone which needs to manage storage policies at scale and uses vRops. Imagine the scene, you have 1000’s of servers mostly with the default storage policy for the specific datastore but then some edge case VM’s require a...