If you have been drawing infrastructure diagrams in Visio of your company setup, you know how cumbersome it can be - especially as the infrastructure changes often. In stead of manually changing your Visio drawings, here's a new tool, that can depict an exact copy of your Virtual Center (now vCenter) or a given cluster - or from a given host - in Visio.
You need to have Powershell and VI Toolkit installed to run script. See here for installation instructions.
1. Go to Virtu-al for further instructions. Download the vDiagram.zip file.
2. Once extracted copy the 'My-VI-Shapes.vss' file to your 'My Documents\My Shapes' folder. If the folder does not exist create it and copy the file in.
3. Run the powershell script (Start-> VMware VI Toolkit -> VMware VI Toolkit ) with the following options:
To diagram the entire Infrastructure:
vDiagram.ps1 -VIServer MYVISERVER or HOST
To diagram a specific cluster use the following:
vDiagram.ps1 -VIServer MYVISERVER -Cluster "Production Cluster"
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Quick guide to installing Powershell, VI Toolkit, and Powergui
If you want to try to administer VMware infrastructure with Powershell, there are a number of applications that you need to install. Furthermore, if you want to have a GUI based interface, then Powergui is a strong tool in combination with their VMware plugin.
If it's you first time trying it out it can be a little tiring to figure out the order in which the apps are to be installed, so here's a quick getting started guide:
1. Install Microsoft Powershell. Link can be found at MS site. If you're running WinXP, look for "Windows Management Framework Core (WinRM 2.0 and Windows PowerShell 2.0)"
2. Install the VI Toolkit 1.5 (for Windows), use the same link as above. If you receive a warning related to Powershell execution policy, then openPowershell from Start -> Programs and run the following command:
Set-ExecutionPolicy remotesigned
3. Go to Powergui.org and install Powergui. During installation, choose to install the VI Client plugin.
4. Install the Powergui VMware Powerpack, click here. Look for the XML file, VMware.VIToolkit.powerpack. Download file. Open Powergui. Right click root note and choose import. Import the .xml you just downloaded. Done.
5. To add a host or a VC server, open Powergui, expand the VMware folder, choose 'Managed host', and choose 'Add connection' in the menu to the right. This will give you a nice recognisable view like the one from the VI client.
If it's you first time trying it out it can be a little tiring to figure out the order in which the apps are to be installed, so here's a quick getting started guide:
1. Install Microsoft Powershell. Link can be found at MS site. If you're running WinXP, look for "Windows Management Framework Core (WinRM 2.0 and Windows PowerShell 2.0)"
2. Install the VI Toolkit 1.5 (for Windows), use the same link as above. If you receive a warning related to Powershell execution policy, then openPowershell from Start -> Programs and run the following command:
Set-ExecutionPolicy remotesigned
3. Go to Powergui.org and install Powergui. During installation, choose to install the VI Client plugin.
4. Install the Powergui VMware Powerpack, click here. Look for the XML file, VMware.VIToolkit.powerpack. Download file. Open Powergui. Right click root note and choose import. Import the .xml you just downloaded. Done.
5. To add a host or a VC server, open Powergui, expand the VMware folder, choose 'Managed host', and choose 'Add connection' in the menu to the right. This will give you a nice recognisable view like the one from the VI client.
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