William Lam lamw

William Lam is a Distinguished Platform Engineering Architect working in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Division at Broadcom

lamw / gist:e16f6b499c7a0de22ee9

Created August 11, 2015 15:47

	####### PS Script (test2.ps1)

	if ( !(Get-Module -Name VMware.VimAutomation.Core -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) ) {
	. "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1"
	}

	$vcserver = "172.30.0.112"
	$vcusername = "administrator@vghetto.local"
	$vcpassword = "VMware1!"

lamw / gist:cbd128eb4f8e3713a9d6

Created September 30, 2015 16:40

Using PowerCLI to display which vCenter Server the ESXi host is currently being managed by

	$esxiserver = "192.168.1.200"
	$esxiusername = "root"
	$esxipassword = "vmware123"

	Connect-VIServer -Server $esxiserver -User $esxiusername -Password $esxipassword -WarningAction SilentlyContinue

	$vihost = Get-View -Server $esxiserver -ViewType HostSystem -Property Name, Summary

	Write-host "`nESXi Host: " $vihost.Name
	Write-Host "vCenter Server: " $vihost.Summary.ManagementServerIp

lamw / getDrsRules.ps1

Created November 20, 2015 19:23

Listing all vSphere DRS Rules that have been defined for a VM

	$clusterName = "VSAN-Cluster"

	$cluster = Get-Cluster -Name $clusterName
	$vms = Get-View ($cluster\| Get-VM)
	$cluster_view = Get-View ($cluster)
	foreach ($vm in $vms) {
	# Using new vSphere 6.0 API (http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2015/02/handy-new-vsphere-6-0-apis-to-be-aware-of.html)
	$cluster_view.FindRulesForVm($vm.MoRef)
	}

lamw / keybase.md

Created February 5, 2016 17:15

Verifying myself on Keybase.io

I hereby claim:

I am lamw on github.
I am lamw (https://keybase.io/lamw) on keybase.
I have a public key whose fingerprint is E88C 6F19 C677 D636 B010 D47B 5106 881E 8111 94BD

To claim this, I am signing this object:

lamw / gist:86791da8fc548762b142

Created February 8, 2016 15:30

Examples of extracting SSL Certificate Thumbprint for *Nix & Windows


	##### *Nix using openssl (http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/04/extracting-ssl-thumbprint-from-esxi.html)

	echo -n \| openssl s_client -connect 192.168.1.200:443 2>/dev/null \| openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -sha1
	SHA1 Fingerprint=AF:3F:70:E6:78:50:41:76:F0:E0:55:78:C0:77:49:FB:69:36:93:6C

	##### Windows using PowerShell Option #1 (https://communities.vmware.com/thread/501913?start=0&tstart=0)

	Function Test-WebServerSSL {
	# Function original location: http://en-us.sysadmins.lv/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=332991f0-bfed-4143-9eea-f521167d287c&ID=60

lamw / gist:c6eb8b5a7229c807bd1b

Created February 18, 2016 16:24

Retrieve ESXi Major / Update version number using ESXCLI

	$esxcli = Get-EsxCli

	### To retrieve Major/Update version number of ESXi via ESXCLI

	PS C:\Users\lamw\Desktop> $esxcli.system.version.get().version + " Update" + $esxcli.system.version.get().update
	6.0.0 Update1

	### To retrieve all version information from ESXi via ESXCLI

	PS C:\Users\lamw\Desktop> $esxcli.system.version.get()

lamw / vcsa-embed.json

Created April 4, 2016 19:15

Example govc import.ova spec for VCSA 6.x Embedded deployment

	{
	"Deployment": "tiny",
	"DiskProvisioning": "thin",
	"IPAllocationPolicy": "dhcpPolicy",
	"IPProtocol": "IPv4",
	"InjectOvfEnv": true,
	"Name": "VCSA-60u2-Embedded",
	"PowerOn": true,
	"PropertyMapping": [
	{

lamw / Get-SSLThumbprint.ps1

Created May 22, 2016 13:37

Powershell snippet to help extract the SSL Thumbprint (SHA1) of a remote system

	Function Get-SSLThumbprint {
	param(
	[Parameter(
	Position=0,
	Mandatory=$true,
	ValueFromPipeline=$true,
	ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)
	]
	[Alias('FullName')]
	[String]$URL

lamw / gist:a397b85b2aa27b96259d2c3a8a89e701

Created October 1, 2016 19:16

Extract Service Tag from ESXi hosts using vSphere API

	Connect-VIServer -Server 192.168.1.51 -User administrator@vghetto.local -password VMware1! \| Out-Null

	$vmhosts = Get-VMHost

	foreach ($vmhost in $vmhosts) {
	$vmhostName = $vmhost.Name
	$vmhostServiceTag = "N/A"

	$otherInfos = $vmhost.ExtensionData.Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo
	foreach ($info in $otherInfos) {

lamw / gist:f25820bccdd858033fa1f3bf0fcc5981

Created November 25, 2016 17:03

Installing OVFTool 4.2 within a Photon Docker Container

	FROM photon

	RUN tdnf -y install tar gzip sed gawk ncurses-compat

	ADD VMware-ovftool-4.2.0-4586971-lin.x86_64.bundle /tmp/
	RUN chmod +x /tmp/VMware-ovftool-4.2.0-4586971-lin.x86_64.bundle

	RUN echo -e "/w00t\n" >> /tmp/answer
	RUN /tmp/VMware-ovftool-4.2.0-4586971-lin.x86_64.bundle --eulas-agreed --required --console < /tmp/answer