I wrote a PowerCLI script for a customer to organize his datastores in a couple of folders. The script moves the datastore to a folder according to the vSphere hosts cluster that uses the datastore.

This is done based on the name of the datastore which contains an identifier for the cluster it’s connected to. The …

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Notepad++ supports Powershell from version v5.6 but the VMware PowerCLI cmdlets aren’t included.

So I created PowerCLI Language definition file for syntax highlighting. It contains the cmdlets available in vSphere PowerCLI 4 Update 1 and vCenter Update Manager PowerCLI 4 Update 1.

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I had to configure additional portgroups based on vlanids on a vSphere cluster. I couldn’t use host profiles to apply the configuration on all hosts. 1$vCenter = Connect-VIServer -server(Read-Host "Please enter the name of your vCenter Server.") 2$Cluster = Get-Cluster -Name (Read-Host "Please enter the …

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