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PatrickTerlisten / Start-and-Stop-AllAzureVMs.ps1

Last active December 5, 2015 08:26

	#requires -Version 3 -Modules Azure

	Function Start-AllAzureVMs {

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Simply run Start-AllAzureVMs without any parameter.

	.DESCRIPTION
	This script starts all Microsoft Azure VMs that are in the "StoppedDeallocated" state.

PatrickTerlisten / Get-LunPathState.ps1

Last active July 13, 2024 19:48

PowerCLI Script that outputs a list of all LUN paths for all ESXi hosts

	#requires -Version 2
	#requires -PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

	function Get-LUNPathState {
	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	No parameters needed. Just execute the script.

	.DESCRIPTION
	This script outputs the number of paths to each LUN.

PatrickTerlisten / Get-MemoryBallooningStats.ps1

Last active December 5, 2015 08:23

This script outputs a list of all VMs that suffer from memory ballooning

	#requires -Version 1
	#requires -PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

	function Get-MemoryBallooningStats {

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	No parameters needed. Just execute the script.

	.DESCRIPTION

PatrickTerlisten / Get-OutdatedVMTools.ps1

Last active December 5, 2015 08:24

This script outputs a list of all VMs without VMware Tools or with VMware Tools that needs to be updated.

	#requires -Version 1
	#requires -PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

	function Get-OutdatedVMTools {

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	No parameters needed. Just execute the script.

	.DESCRIPTION

PatrickTerlisten / Get-VMWorkingDirMismatch.ps1

Last active December 5, 2015 08:25

This script outputs a list of all VMs where VM inventory name and working directory name doesn't match.

	#requires -Version 1
	#requires -PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.

	function Get-VMWorkingDirMismatch {

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	No parameters needed. Just execute the script.

	.DESCRIPTION

PatrickTerlisten / Reclaim-ThinVMDK.ps1

Last active February 21, 2018 15:30

This script uses sdelete to zero-out all disks of a Windows VM. Afterwards, the VM is moved between datastores to reclaim zeroed space.

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	No parameters needed. Just execute the script.

	.DESCRIPTION
	This script uses sdelete to zero-out all disks of a Windows VM. Afterwards, the VM
	is moved between datastores to reclaim zeroed space.

	History
	v1.3: Redesign.

PatrickTerlisten / Create-DataCoreSSVBackup.ps1

Last active December 1, 2015 16:18

This script creates a backup of the DataCore SANsymphony-V configuration.

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	No parameters needed. Just execute the script.

	.DESCRIPTION
	This script creates a backup of the DataCore SANsymphony-V configuration.

	.EXAMPLE
	Create-DataCoreSSVBackup

PatrickTerlisten / Shutdown-vSphereCluster.ps1

Created December 1, 2015 16:21

A script to shutdown a vSphere Cluster.

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	No parameters needed. Just execute the script.

	.DESCRIPTION
	This script will shut down all VMs, the ESXi hosts that were running the VMs, the vCenter VM
	and, at the end, the ESXi host that was running the vCener VM.

	Please modify all necessary variables. Make sure that you read the comments!

PatrickTerlisten / Get-CpuRatio

Last active May 8, 2018 21:33

This script outputs the pCPU/ vCPU ratio for each ESXi host.

	#requires -Version 1
	#requires -PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

	function Get-CpuRatio {

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	No parameters needed. Just execute the script.

	.DESCRIPTION

PatrickTerlisten / disable_dhcp_inform.vbs

Created April 17, 2016 08:32

Disable DHCPINFORM on Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 7

	Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = &h10
	Const wbemFlagForwardOnly = &h20

	strComputer = "."
	Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
	Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT Name,DeviceID FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter WHERE NetConnectionStatus=2", "WQL", wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly)
	For Each objItem In colItems
	strName = objItem.Name
	Set colNicConfigs = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
	("ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_NetworkAdapter.DeviceID='" & objItem.DeviceID & "'} WHERE AssocClass=Win32_NetworkAdapterSetting")