Comments on: VMware Infrastructure PowerPack 2.1.5 released

By: Kirk Munro

Kirk Munro — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:01:10 +0000

I’m glad you find it useful. I agree, the vDiagrams need more details. It’s an item that ended up staying on my todo list for a later release. Adding them to the labels is one way. I was planning on adding them plus a bunch of other additional properties to the objects. But the Visio DSV doesn’t support adding object properties just yet.

Anyhow, thanks for the feedback, I will keep it in mind for the next release!

By: AviD

AviD — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:39:24 +0000

This tool is really neat, and very usefull. One suggestion and modification I made was to put the IP address and VM Name on the visio. Being a total newb to powershell, I kinda fingured it out by replacing:

$vmShape = Shape $vmShapeName -Label $vm.name

with the following:

$vmShape = Shape $vmShapeName -Label ([string]$vm.guest.ipaddress+[string]” “+[string]$vm.name)

Maybe there’s a better way, but it was a simple enough change in the code

By: Kirk Munro

Kirk Munro — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:02:01 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Gerry. Actually, I just realized that last night and I reconfigured my test lab to have a mixed cluster / ESX environment this morning so I’ll make sure that scenario is covered as well.

By: GerryB

GerryB — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:59:40 +0000

I saw similar mapping issues in a mixed cluster / ESX environment. The Cluster maps, but the ESX hosts do not. Just wanted to let you know it could be a mix-mode environment not just 1 or other.

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By: rdrr

rdrr — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:52:37 +0000

Absolutely! Management always loves visio diagrams.

By: Kirk Munro

Kirk Munro — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:04:55 +0000

You’re absolutely right, when I put together the script to generate the vDiagram from a DataCenter, I made it go through the cluster. Sorry for that. The test environments I work with all use clusters at the moment, so I didn’t catch this issue before releasing it. I have a few items I need to fix in a dot-release, this one included. If you would like to test the updated Generate vDiagram action in your environment once I have it ready, let me know.

By: rdrr

rdrr — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:21:06 +0000

Kirk,

It seems that you don’t get any output if you don’t have a cluster. I have inherited a VMWare environment that has a Folder -> DataCenter(s) -> ESX hosts, and I tried to edit the script to perform a get-datacenter with no luck.

Any advice?

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By: Kirk Munro

Kirk Munro — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:35:13 +0000

Great idea! I can do that very easily, so I’ll wait for a little more feedback and then put in an updated version that has a little better distribution of VMs.

Thanks for the feedback!

By: Virtu-Al » PowerGUI VMware PowerPack 2.1.5 released

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By: Maish

Maish — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:55:52 +0000

Oh yes and sorry ..

Forgot….

This is absolutely the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Maish

Maish — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:55:23 +0000

Hi Kirk, as a improvement I suggested to Alan I will suggest to you as well.

When creating diagrams into Visio, If you have many VM’s under a cluster/host then the line that you create can get very, very,very long…………

Maybe you can create a cutoff point of the number of VM’s on one line and then wrap the rest of them on the next (say 10-15)?