OK… script away ---
A friend of my (Jeremy) helped write this with me learning sometime back however I cleaned it up some. It is and was a great tool in another role I use to be in. I removed list items 4-9 as we used it to setup specific performance settings for a technology/vendor product, but you do not need it for this script to help you with setting up the VI side of things. I do know that some of the PowerCLI commands are older but we had older ESX/ESXI versions we needed to cover. Also we haven’t had time to redo it with newer commands.
We wrote this originally to help implement VI settings as and as overwrite/correct settings. So please test it. You are using this at your own risks.
There is a step in here at the beginning to kill all VC connections… I used it for testing…
Here is a few of the settings we targeted at each layer – single host or vCluster or vDC
Enable Firewall Port Settings
Disconnect Media Devices from VMs
Modify Syslog Settings
Create Persistent Scratch Location
Modify Domain Name and DNS
Modify NTP settings
Modify Storage Settings (add, scan, rename, mount NFS share)
Enter/Exit Host from Maintenance Mode
Connect, Disconnect ESXi Host from vCenter
Change Root Password
View ESXi Logs
Enable\Disable SSH
Modify Networking Global Settings
Modify Networking for vSwitch 0, 1, 2
I would like to ask if you modify or update the Script then please share it back with us.
Please provide feedback/comments so we can make it better and report any issues you find.
I am not a GURU at scripting.. I just like to get creative sometimes and scripting helps with applying that creativity quickly.
Download - PowerVIConfigurator_v2.txt
Thanks
@vTwindude