VMWare Snapshots Report

VMWare Snapshots Report

A quick powershell script using HTML and CSS to run against your VMware Environment utilising PowerCLI to pull back a report of your snapshots.

This can be useful for reclaiming space and making the most of your storage or to spot somewhere that you have a usage issue.

Skoda Fabia vRS (2004 Mk1)

Skoda Fabia vRS (2004 Mk1)

When I was starting to see my now wife, then girlfriend, her mother had a 2002 Skoda Fabia SDI Saloon. Although it was a very slow old beast, (I think 50bhp) it had a handsome ruggedness to it that I always liked despite its Classic trim level and saloon body shape.

Powershell – Use Speedtest CLI to Monitor Broadband speeds – Part 1

Powershell – Use Speedtest CLI to Monitor Broadband speeds – Part 1

After having some speed issues I wanted to create a script to document these into an easy to access table that I could see what was happening. So rather than reinventing the wheel, Ookla offer a Python application that will display your internet speeds from the commandline… if thats your wish; and in my case, it was!

My main wants in this were:

  • Create a PowerShell script to get the information I wanted
  • Output the results to a CSV
  • Use scheduled Tasks to run the script hourly
  • Upload the results to a local web server and display in a HTML table