Migrating a VMWARE VM to AWS using AWS PowerShell

Migrating a VMWARE VM to AWS using AWS PowerShell

In this topic we will describes the necessary steps to migrate a VMWare VM to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) using PowerShell. You could also migrate VM using AWS command line tools, but I found using PowerShell is much easier than command line tools. Requirements: AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell http://aws.amazon.com/powershell/ IAM account to authenticate. Basic knowledge on PowerShell. Preparing

Port Scanner using PowerShell with Email Notification

Port Scanner using PowerShell with Email Notification

Few days back I was asked to create a script, which will check RDP port status of multiple servers and send the result as an email notification. I have searched for few, but unfortunately there was no ready script for that. I decided to build one using PowerShell, and came out with following script. Hope this script might help you

Extract VM details from VCenter

Extract VM details from VCenter

Sometimes it’s a painful job to extract all the information from vCenter server. From GUI you could export information, but not all the information will be available. I was requested to extrach following information. VM Name Host Name VM IP Address Installed Guest OS Power State of VM Allotted number of CPU Allotted total memory Connected Data store Host Server

Set File System Auditing via PowerShell

Set File System Auditing via PowerShell

For last few days, I was trying to figure out how to set file system auditing via command line. I was looking for this as I had to apply some specific audit policy on multiple file servers. From GUI, we could do this, but it will take hours of manual activity. As requirement, I had to set Success Audit policy

AWS EBS Snapshots Automation (Disaster Recovery) from Windows PowerShell

AWS EBS Snapshots Automation (Disaster Recovery) from Windows PowerShell

It is always a good idea to reduce hardware dependencies by moving your data to the cloud. Cloud is much more flexible than traditional hardware infrastructure including VMWare. But you still have to consider the ability of recovering data as and when required. This always helps you to keep your business running with minimal interruption. In AWS, there are several

NTFS Permission issue with TAKEOWN & ICACLS

NTFS Permission issue with TAKEOWN & ICACLS

Most of us using TAKEOWN or ICACLS for taking ownership from command prompt, and both of them are simple to use. We generally use TAKEOWN or ICACLS with following switches to taking the ownership. takeown /F “PATH” /R /D Y /A icacls “PATH” /T /setowner Administrators But unfortunately, TAKEOWN & ICACLS both might failed on certain scenario, as there are