Managing V Sphere With The Vesi

Managing VMware vSphere 4 with The Virtualization EcoShell
Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL
Scott Herold - Quest Software

Introduction
VMware Certified Instructor
Freelance consultant
Blogger @ NTPRO.NL

Agenda
About The Virtualization EcoShell
Getting Started
Task Automation
Administrative Reports and Charts
Best Practice Filters
PowerPacks
Daily Report (vCheck)
Demo
Twitter Aliases
Upcoming Features - Scott Herold

Agenda

About the Virtualization EcoShell
The goal of the Virtualization EcoShell is to provide a freeware desktop application for novice and expert IT administrators leveraging Windows PowerShell scripts across their multi-platform virtual environments.

About the Virtualization EcoShell
Gather information from many sources
Filterjust the data you want
Remediate and take action against your environment
Reportthe data how you want it
Integrateand extend your capabilities

The EcoShell Console

Task Automation
Reduce errors from manual processes across multiple areas of responsibility through the script-based administration of repetitive and complex tasks inherent in virtualization infrastructures.

Task Automation

Administrative Reports
Provide pre-defined and customizable reports as well as automated maps without hassle in HTML, XML and CSV formats, including support for Microsoft Visio.

Administrative Reports

Powerful Script Assistance
Cushion and ramp up script creation by exposing, analyzing and troubleshooting script output for common Windows PowerShell commands.

Powerful Script Assistance

Charts
The Chart tab in the Grid enables you to create customized charts. You can select different types like Area, Column, Doughnut, Line, Scatter, Stacked Area and Stacked Column. The horizontal axes labels hold the category and can be fed by everything that’s measurable.

Charts

Custom Filters
You can adjust the Property, Operator and a Value in a filter and just present the data you want.
NIC count
Operating system
Power State
Memory
DNS Name

Custom Filters

These filters allows you to easily perform daily checks of common faulty configuration issues like a Snapshot hunter, VMs with CD-ROM Connected and Hosts with NIC at Half Duplex.

PowerPack Management
A PowerPack is a collection of PowerShell scripts that are used to extend the Virtualization EcoShell administrative console. These scripts are stored inside of nodes, links or actions all of which are used to add functionality into the console.

PowerPack Management

PowerPack ~> Virtu-Al.net Scripts

This script picks on the key areas of the virtual infrastructure and reports it all in a nice HTML page, so all you have do in the morning is take a look at the vCheck.

Getting Started
Virtualization EcoShell (thevesi.org)
Windows PowerShell
VMware PowerCLI

Configuring Virtualization EcoShell
AddingConnections
Managed Hosts
Selecting Objects and Connect

Adding actions and Script Links

High CPU ready values

Books
vSphere Quick Start Guide
Dave, Duncan, Bernie, Thomas,
Stewart and Alan Renouf
Managing VMware Infrastructure
With Windows PowerShell
Hal Rottenberg
VMware VI and vSphere SDK
Steve Jin

Twitter aliasses@theVESI
Carter Shanklin @cshanklin
Alan Renouf @alanrenouf
Hal Rottenberg@halr9000
Luc Dekens @LucD22
Dmitry Sotnikov @Dsotnikov
Hugo Peeters @hugopeeters
Arne Fokkema @afokkema
Eric Sloof @esloof
Scott Herold @vmguru

Upcoming features - Scott Herold
Scott Herold
Lead Architect –Virtualization Business
Quest Software
What’s New in EcoShell 1.3

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Managing V Sphere With The Vesi

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