Eric Sloof

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The Host Profiles CLI Fling (hostprofilescli) is a command-line utility that allows vSphere administrators to perform several operations with Host Profiles that are either not currently possible through existing user interfaces, or possible only through graphical interfaces.


The hostprofilescli utility can also be used to export a specific profile to a local file for backup or, in some cases, to move between test and production environments. Keep in mind that Host Profiles are very closely tied to specific hardware, I/O devices, and storage. Attempting to use a profile in another environment that is not virtually identical may require significant troubleshooting to become operational.

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vCenter Cluster Performance Tool is a Powershell script that uses vSphere PowerCLI to obtain performance data for a cluster by aggregating information from individual hosts. You have the following options to specify in the script.

An “interval” of 20s or 300s. The default is 20s, and corresponds to real time statistics. 300s corresponds to the 5 min interval statistics.
A stats query flag to obtain the list of counter IDs available on the vCenter Server. You can then pass the desired counter ID from that list to obtain Performance metrics for the cluster.

• Gathers all data of the specified interval type that is available on each host in the specified cluster
• Easy and a quick way of obtaining performance data for a vCenter cluster
• Data is saved in a CSV file, which can then easily be fed into any charting software
• A chart, in PNG format, is also generated for visualization

Ray Budavari, Senior Staff Technical Product Manager, NSBU at VMware, gives a brief technical overview as NSX as a solution. He reviews the idea in NSX of treating the hypervisor as the network edge, and builds upon that by explaining the security and network management features that are put as close the hypervisor as possible.

VMware PowerCLI 6.5.1 introduces a new installation method to users. This new method pulls directly from the PowerShell Gallery