In my post from April on Making sure your Citrix Desktops are utilized in 35 lines of PoSH I mentioned I would be looking to expand the powershell script and I’ve added just a few lines of code to do that expantion.
Tag Archive for Powershell
Making sure your Citrix Desktops are utilized with Powershell v2
Protecting your Citrix desktops on Nutanix using powershell
Another week, another idea comes up to check if I could make it happen with Powershell. I wanted to write a script that checks my current machine catalog and puts VMs that are not in a Nutanix Protection Domain in a PD to make sure that we can protect those VMs using the policies Nutanix offers. Read more
Microsoft SCVMM and Citrix PVS, exporting retries to a CSV
While I’m still experimenting with the Microsoft SCVMM and Citrix PVS PowerShell cmdlets (read more about my first ramblings about this topic here) I figured it’s difficult to get an export of the vDisk usage to track down the number of retries on a vDisk for a particular host so I wrote a little script to make this easier.
Microsoft SCVMM, Citrix PVS and Powershell: Some quick tips
Another week, another reference architecture in the making… This time I’m working on a new reference architecture for Hyper-V 2016, SCVMM 2016 and XenDesktop 7.13. Obviously PVS 7.13 is in the mix too so I’ve been building out the environment but needed some PowerShell one-liners and easy scripts to get some work done and figured I could put them in a short blog for my own reference.
Making sure your Citrix Desktops are utilized in 35 lines of PoSH
Earlier this week one of our SEs asked the following question on an internal Slack channel: “I have a customer that is looking for an automated process to identify VDI VMs that haven’t been used, notify the users, and then ultimately reclaim them if noone has logged on in a certain amount of time”.
Nutanix VM Inventory Script using powershell
Last week Magnus Andersson posted a Nutanix AHV VM Reporting script which leverages the internal commandline options to export some basic VM configuration to an excel file. In the same week our team got a question about how to do this based on powershell.
