Automate bulk Windows and Linux VMs creation from template with Guest OS customization

VMware vSphere Infrastructure build completed, tested and ready for workloads. What’s next? Right, it’s time to create bunch of Windows and Linux VMs for customers! Fastest way to do so – prepare VMware PowerCLI / PowerShell script. In my case as part of the project I had to build 200+… Continue reading

VMware NSX VPN tunnels statistics collection with PowerShell

I’ve been assigned the task of gathering VPN statistics for a client. Their system operates on VMware NSX 4.0.0.1. After checking, I found that the current PowerCLI lacks the capability to extract VPN statistics. Since VMware NSX has a RestAPI interface, we can perform various actions through RestAPI calls. I’ve… Continue reading