Ever came in the situation of a fast growing environment and your backup disks are getting fuller and fuller, till the point you need to move datasources to a new added disk? Well, I got sick and tired of moving datasources manually using MigrateDatasourceDataFromDPM.ps1, so I wrote a powershell script. You only need to edit […]
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Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 1)
Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 1) Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 2) Converting VM’s from VMware to Hyper-V in seconds (Part 3) Finally!!! A couple of months ago I started migrating from VMware to Hyper-v with frustrating speeds, 17MB/s, this is because of the file conversion which […]
Set Port Classification based on VM Network
When you share one Logical network for two purposes like Management and Backup you might want to setup Port Classifications and Port Profiles. With the Port Classifications and Port Profiles you can setup QOS so the backup traffic will never influence the management traffic. One thing not to forget is to select the Port Profile, […]
Restore IP settings from registry Powershell Tool
I’m currently working on v2v from VMware to Hyper-v. Because the new VM’s on Hyper-V get new NIC’s all the IP settings are lost and because I didn’t want to restore the settings all manually I wanted to create a powershell script and eventually ended up with a Powershell tool with GUI. It uses the […]
Monitoring VMM Jobs with JobVariable
With the -JobVariable parameter you can create a temporary variable that contains the status (and other good stuff) of the created job. This variable will only be available in the current session, it will not be globally available. The jobvariable will be converted in a variable, you can only set text as -jobvariable. I used […]
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Uninstall VMware Tools with Powershell
In addition to this great post by MigrationMark about Automating VM Migration and uninstalling VMware Tools I decided to write a little powershell script that finds the GUID of the VMware Tools Registry Key and use it to uninstall VMware Tools with this key. This powershell script will uninstall VMware Tools and force shutdown the […]