This is for me to look back and refer when I need it.
First do a connect-viserver to the vcenter.
Get-VDSwitch -Name "DVSwitch1" | New-VDPortgroup
-Name "dvport" -VlanId 3064 -NumPorts 8
If you have multiple dvswtiches and dvportgroups then just
copy paste the same line multiple times with different values and copy paste
the entire thing into the powercli
Get-VirtualSwitch -name vSwitch0 | new-VirtualPortGroup
-name "new portgroup" -vlanid 10
Get-VMHost | Get-VirtualSwitch -Name $vSwitch |
Get-VirtualPortGroup -Name $VirtualPortGroup | Remove-VirtualPortGroup
get-vmhost | Get-VMHostNetwork | Set-VMHostNetwork
-DomainName $domainname -DNSAddress $dns
get-vmhost |
add-vmhostntpserver -ntpserver 1.1.1.1,2.2.2.2
10.
rename portgroup on all hosts of the vcenter
#dont forget to add the vlan option at the end. If you don't then the existing vlan will be changed to 0
get-vmhost | get-VirtualPortGroup -Name OLDNAME | Set-VirtualPortGroup -Name NEWNAME -vlan xxx
11.
Add Datastores to hosts
new-datastore -vmhost
"superhero.marvel.com" -Name "CaptainAmerica" -path
"naa.6006016054303c009430d2accaf8e411" -vmfs
12.
add esxi hosts to cluser
get-cluster $cluster | add-vmhost $vmhost -user root -password $password -force confirm:$false
13.
add vmkernel portgroup
New-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMHost (Get-VMHost $hostname) -PortGroup $portgroupname -VirtualSwitch $switchname -IP $ipaddress -SubnetMask $subnetmask
14.
Rename datastore
get-vmhost -name $vmhost | get-datastore -name data* | set-datastore -name $newname
Disable IPV6
follow the 4 steps below
15.
Disable ipv6
Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostNetwork | Set-VMHostNetwork -IPv6Enabled $false
16. exit maintenance mode of clusters
get-cluster
cluster1,cluster2,cluster3,cluster98 | get-vmhost | Set-VMHost
-State Connected
17. reboot hosts of hosts of clusters
get-cluster
cluster1,cluster2,cluster3,cluster98 | get-vmhost |
Restart-VMHost -force
18. enter maintenance mode of hosts of cluster
get-cluster
cluster1,cluster2,cluster3,cluster98 | get-vmhost | Set-VMHost
-State Maintenance
enter maintenance mode on a range of hosts
Get-VMHost -Name [VMHost[1-10]* | Set-VMHost -State Maintenance
yes , it does exactly what you guessed it would do
19. stop cluster (hosts)
get-cluster cluster* | get-vmhost | stop-vmhost -confirm:$false
20. scratch partition
Set-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $fqdn -Name
"ScratchConfig.ConfiguredScratchLocation" -Value
"/vmfs/volumes/$datastore/.locker-$ShortnameOfHost"
21. Syslog
adds $Syslog as the target syslog server to all the hosts
get-vmhost | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name Syslog.global.logHost
| Set-AdvancedSetting -Value $Syslog -Confirm:$false
22. ANY ADVANCED SETTING
applies the advanced setting on all hosts
get-vmhost | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name
NAME_OF_ADVANCED_SETTING | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value THE_VALUE_OF_YOUR_CHOICE -Confirm:$false
23. shutdown all hosts
get-vmhost | stop-vmhost -confirm:$false
shutdown hosts of a cluster
get-cluster cluster11 | get-vmhost | stop-vmhost -confirm:$false
shutdown hosts of clusters whose name begins with cluster
get-cluster cluster* | get-vmhost | stop-vmhost -confirm:$false
23. shutdown hosts in maintenance mode
What if i want to shutdown just the hosts which are in maintenance mode?
$VMHosts = Get-VMHost -state maintenance | sort
foreach ($VMHost in $VMHosts) {stop-vmhost $VMHost -confirm:$false}
foreach ($vmhost in (Get-VMHost)) {(Get-EsxCli -VMHost $vmhost).system.snmp.set($null,"$string",$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null,$null)}
25. vswitch security settings
Get-VirtualSwitch -Name $vSwitch0 | Get-SecurityPolicy | Set-SecurityPolicy -MacChanges $false
Get-VirtualSwitch -Name $vSwitch0 | Get-SecurityPolicy | Set-SecurityPolicy -ForgedTransmits $false
Get-VirtualSwitch -Name $vSwitch0 | Get-SecurityPolicy | Set-SecurityPolicy -AllowPromiscuous $false
26. Nicteamingpolicy
get-vmhost | Get-VirtualSwitch -name vSwitch0 | Get-NicTeamingPolicy | Set-NicTeamingPolicy -LoadBalancingPolicy LoadBalanceIP
get-vmhost | Get-VirtualSwitch -name vSwitch0 | Get-VirtualPortGroup | where {$_.Name -like "_vmk"} | Get-NicTeamingPolicy | Set-NicTeamingPolicy -LoadBalancingPolicy LoadBalanceIP
27. Change vmkernel ip
Get-VMHost $vmhost | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -name $vmk| Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -IP $newIP -confirm:$false
28. Enable VMotion on THE portgroup
Get-Cluster | Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter |?{ $_.PortGroupName -match "vMotion"} | Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMotionEnabled:$true -Confirm:$false
29. Delete DVPortgroup
Get-VDPortGroup -Name "$portgroup" | Remove-VDPortGroup
30. Add vmnic(physical adapter)
get-vmhost | Get-VirtualSwitch -name vSwitch0 | Set-VirtualSwitch -Nic vmnic3 -confirm:$false
31. Power Management Policy
(Get-View (Get-VMHost | Get-View).ConfigManager.PowerSystem).ConfigurePowerPolicy(1)
Note: Here 1=HighPerformance /2=Balanced /3=LowPower
32.Enable Fault Tolerance
Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter | where { $_.PortGroupName -eq "$portgroup" } | Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -FaultToleranceLoggingEnabled $true -confirm:$false
33. MOB Status
get-vmhost | get-advancedsetting Config.HostAgent.plugins.solo.enableMob | Select-Object Entity, @{Expression="Value";Label="MOb Enabled"}
34. Remove vswitch from all hosts of cluster
get-cluster cluster01,cluster02 | Get-VMHost | Get-VirtualSwitch -Name vSwitch0 | Remove-VirtualSwitch
35. Remove Virtual Portgroup
get-vmhost | get-virtualswitch -name $vSwitchname | get-virtualportgroup -name $portgroupname | remove-virtualportgroup
36. Unmount all iso/cd/dvd from all VMs
get-vm | get-cddrive | set-cddrive -NoMedia -Confirm:$false
37. Enable DRS on all clusters
get-cluster | set-cluster -DrsEnabled:$true -confirm:$false
38. Enable HA on all clusters
get-cluster | set-cluster -HAEnabled:$true -confirm:$false
39. set mtu for a vmkernel
Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter | Where { $_.GetType().Name -eq "HostVMKernelVirtualNicImpl" } | where Name -EQ vmk2 | Foreach { $_ | Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -Mtu 9000 -Confirm:$false }
40. Remove ntp server
Remove-VmHostNtpServer -NtpServer 1.vmware.pool.ntp.org -VMHost (get-vmhost) -Confirm:$false
