PatrickTerlisten

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

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

PatrickTerlisten

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

function Get-MemoryBallooningStats {

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

            .DESCRIPTION

PatrickTerlisten

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

function Get-OutdatedVMTools {

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

            .DESCRIPTION

PatrickTerlisten

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

function Get-VMWorkingDirMismatch {

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

            .DESCRIPTION

PatrickTerlisten

#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

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")

PatrickTerlisten

###
# VMware PowerCLI
###

# Create a new entry in the credential store

New-VICredentialStoreItem -Host vcenter.domain.tld -User Username -Password Passw0rd

# Connect to vCenter server (credential store item exist for this vCenter server)

PatrickTerlisten

import ssl
from pyVim.connect import SmartConnect

s = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1)
s.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE

c = SmartConnect(host="192.168.20.1", user="root", pwd='Passw0rd', sslContext=s)
h = c.content.sessionManager.currentSession.key

print (h)

PatrickTerlisten

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

        .DESCRIPTION
        The script deploys a couple of VMs to Azure.

        History  
        v0.1: Under development
     

PatrickTerlisten

<#
        .SYNOPSIS
        This script retrieves a console screenshot of one or more virtual machines.

        .DESCRIPTION
        The script needs four parameters: 
        
        - the name of the VM (name from the inventory)
        - the hostname of a vCenter or ESXi host
        - username, and