Using Pester for Infrastructure testing

robert — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 13:37:32 +0200

Recently the company I am working at was running into performance issues which became a pain to sort out as it was so sporadic (lasted like 5 mins max every time), but when it happened it affected the entire company.

Script Dumpster: Reporting all files on ESX Datastores

robert — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:53:05 +0200

The Problem I had a customer who was complaining that the simple overview of disks used by VM’s didn’t add up to the amount of data in use on datastores. Simple reasoning being swap files, snapshots etc. etc. , but the customer wanted to see exactly what was causing this… In comes PowerCLI [VMWare’s adaption of PowerShell for their solutions] The Script Edit: As I had thought at first instance, the datacenter name was working just fine on my 2 test environments, but in a 3rd I quickly ran into an error.

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Using Pester for Infrastructure testing

Script Dumpster: Reporting all files on ESX Datastores