Quick tip: You find yourself with duplicate HA roles for a virtual machine and you’re unable delete the problematic resource… Symptoms: Duplicate cluster roles for a virtual machine. When attempting to delete, you get the error: Error code: 0x8007012f The file cannot […]
A word… Having worked with many clients over the years, the commonality between many of them an under-utilization of automation. Even the biggest of Microsoft shops fall short when it comes to automation, regularly being confused about the options they have and […]
This is one I use regularly, so thought it might come in handy for you.. Assumption here is you are connected via PowerShell to your intended subscription.. A few key points: The VM will need to be stopped to execute […]
Had a fun one for a client recently whereby they were standing up some new DNS servers for a segment of their network. The forward lookup zones were very easy, import csv and PowerShell them in without much fuss at all.. […]
This SMA Runbook will add any new or missing logical network definitions (i.e. VLAN’s) in SCVMM and to HP OneView appliance. As well as having a “working SMA deployment”, the prerequisites for this Runbook are 5 SMA Variables (Assets) which are: VMMServer […]
I recently had the task of creating a PowerShell script to call REST API for adding Networks to an uplink set in HP OneView. A quick overview of the environment. Our enclosures have 4x FlexFabrics, 2 used to plumb an […]
So use this wisely… This script will use Out-Gridview to prompt the operator for the management pack to disable the alerts for and the override management pack to save those overrides in. Enjoy! Dan First, the script to do this for all […]
Along the same line as this post, the below will create an empty overrides management pack based on a source management pack and client number These are meant for the SCOM operators to use for consistent management pack naming. Enjoy Dan! $ManagementServer […]
Found this one in my toolkit recently and thought I’d share. It’s a little old so the code could do with some optimizing.. What it does: Prompts the script runner for a client number and then asks them to confirm the name […]
Was cleaning out some old PS scripts recently and found this one in my toolkit. This one will appease some of those out there who came to Hyper-V from another virtualization technology and are familiar with the term datastore… We use SOFS storage so our […]