Author: Jackie Chen

PowerShell: Hyper-V VM Inventory


Having a clean inventory of all virtual machines is a good practice to avoid virtual machine sprawl. I created a script to send me to the Monthly VM Inventory automatically, this includes the Guest name, status, OS, vCPU, RAM, host and notes. The results look like this: JC-VM-01STATUS: RunningVCPU: 1RAM: 2048 MOS: Windows Server 2008 … Continue reading PowerShell: Hyper-V VM Inventory →

Backup Exec 2010 Best Practices


TECH77887   Symantec Backup Exec (TM) 2010 Administrator's Guide (English) TECH77928   Symantec Backup Exec (TM) 2010 Readme First Release Notes (English) TECH77956   Symantec Backup Exec (tm) 2010 General Information TECH164267   Backup-to-Disk Best Practices HOWTO21767   Best practices for Backup Exec 2010 R3 Deduplication Option HOWTO59043   Best practices for using Backup Exec 2010 R3 Deduplication Option with the … Continue reading Backup Exec 2010 Best Practices →

PowerShell: Monitor Hyper-V VM Heartbeat


$hostname = “ServerName” $service = gwmi -class "Msvm_VirtualSystemManagementService" -namespace "root\virtualization" -ComputerName $hostname $VM = gwmi -ComputerName $hostname -namespace "root\virtualization" -query "Select * from Msvm_ComputerSystem where Caption='Virtual Machine'" Foreach ($_ in $VM) { Write-Host $_.ElementName $settings = gwmi -ComputerName $hostname -namespace "root\virtualization" -query ("ASSOCIATORS OF {" + $_.__PATH + "} WHERE resultClass = Msvm_VirtualSystemsettingData") $HB = … Continue reading PowerShell: Monitor Hyper-V VM Heartbeat →

PowerShell: Send Email


I scheduled a task to send me the every day report by Email. Here is how I did by using PowerShell: $emailFrom = Monitor@test.com$emailTo = jackie.chen@test.com $subject = "Everyday Report"$body = Get-Content C:\Logs\EverydayReport.txt $smtpServer = "SMTP.test.com"$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)$smtp.Send($emailFrom, $emailTo, $subject, $body)