An image is required to deploy Azure Virtual Machine on Cloud. You can use a market place image that Azure provides. However, if you want to use a custom image with customization based on your company standards and baselines, you need to create a custom image. Custom image can be used to bootstrap deployments and…
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Create Azure Windows VM Image with Packer and Powershell
An image is required to deploy Azure Virtual Machine on Cloud. You can use a market place image that Azure provides. However, if you want to use a custom image with customization based on your company standards and baselines, you need to create a custom image. Custom image can be used to bootstrap deployments and…
Upgrade VMware Virtual Machine Hardware Version
If you are managing VMware environment you might have encountered a situation where you had to upgrade VMware Hardware version on Templates you use to deploy VMs. This could be due to environmental changes – like ESXi upgrade or any other reason. Or it could be just because you have not upgraded VMware hardware version…
List VMware VM Templates in VCenter
If you want to generate a quick inventory of all VMware Virtual Machine Templates created in your vCenter environment you can use PowerCLI command-lets and pull that data quickly. Today I am sharing a script which helped me a lot as I have several vCenters to support globally and each one has several Templates for…
Find VMware Host and Cluster names for VMs
In today’s post I am going to share a small script block I used long back. I wanted to get VMware ESXi Host and Cluster name for a Virtual Machine from vCenter. Not necessarily the Host will remain same if I check it again after few hours. However, I just wanted to get that information…
Move Azure VM to another Subscription using Powershell
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. You may have come across situations where you want to move an Azure VM from one Resource Group to another. Sounds familiar, right? Luckily, Microsoft has provided a very cool and easy wizard based tool through the Azure Portal. Refer here for more information on…
Azure Virtual Machine backup report using Powershell
Update : updated script to support Azure Az powershell module. A good backup strategy is very important for any Organization – be it on-premises or cloud. However, cloud providers have made it very easy with different cloud based backup and recovery solutions. Microsoft Azure provides Azure Recovery Services for backup and recovery solution on cloud….