Managing V Sphere With The Vesi

Managing VMware vSphere 4 with The Virtualization EcoShell

Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NLScott 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

Power Packs

Daily Report (vCheck)

Demo

Books and Twitter Aliases

Upcoming Features - Scott Herold

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

Filter just the data you want

Remediate and take action against your environment

Report the data how you want it

Integrate and 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

Administrative Reports

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

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

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.

Best Practice Filters

Best Practice Filters

Best Practice Filters

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

Daily Report (vCheck)

• 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.

Daily Report (vCheck)

Getting Started

1. Virtualization EcoShell (thevesi.org)2. Windows PowerShell3. VMware PowerCLI

Configuring Virtualization EcoShell

• Adding Connections• Managed Hosts• Selecting Objects and Connect

Adding actions and Script Links

High CPU ready values

Demo

Books

vSphere Quick Start GuideDave, Duncan, Bernie, Thomas, Stewart and Alan Renouf

Managing VMware InfrastructureWith Windows PowerShellHal Rottenberg

VMware VI and vSphere SDKSteve 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