Eric Monjoin
Staff Consulting Architect but also pilot, spending time in front of my computer or flying in the air...

Category: PowerShell

App Volumes / PowerShell

PowerShell : Automatically Expand Writable Volumes

September 9, 2022

One of my customer raised an issue about managing writable volumes as they are mainly used by developers who are unable to restrain their desires to fill disk with tons of data and can’t do some clean up 🙂

The problem of course is that the writable volume grow up to no free space and unfortunately the user is not aware of that as the “ReportSystemFreeSpace” Reg Key works only for App Volumes 2.x and not App Volumes 4.x

The following script can be used manually or integrated with Task Scheduler but requires App Volumes Server 2206 (4.7) to handle “requested_mb” parameters. You can use it with previous version but you don’t know if a request to expand disk was previously initiated.

Disclaimer : The script it self is not supported by me or VMware so use it at your own risk however it’s using official VMware API for App Volumes, and thank to Chris Halstead as his initial script helped me a lot (https://github.com/chrisdhalstead/appvolumes-expand-wv)

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Azure / Horizon Cloud / PowerShell

Horizon Cloud from Zero to Hero – Set your Azure AD subscription ready for Horizon Cloud

March 4, 2021

In order to deploy Horizon Cloud on Azure, you first need to perform many task on Azure side like creating Virtual Network and so on. This can be done from the Azure portal or you can also use PowerShell to accomplish all tasks…

Before, let me tell you that all the merit for the following script must go to my colleague Roch Norwa and you can find the initial version on his blog here : https://digitalworkspace.blog/2020/04/19/horizon-cloud-on-azure-introduction-and-deployment-automation-script/

I made some slight changes to Roch scripts :

  • Added registration of Microsoft.SQL to the management subnet
  • Use only one Virtual Networ instead of 2
  • Use 3 of subnets instead of 2 : Management, VDI (and RDS host) and UAG
  • Changed Register-AzureRmResourceProvider for Register-AzResourceProvider
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PowerShell

PowerCLI and VMware Horizon.. error BaseImageVM_List

March 4, 2021

PowerShell and more specifically VMware PowerCLI (who are the PowerShell commands to manage VMware Infrastructure with around 800 cmdlets) are incredible tools who extremely facilitate administrators day to day life…

Now sometime it happens, after an upgrade, that didn’t work any more as expected.

In order to manage Horizon deployment using PowerShell scripts, using PowerCLI is not enough and you need to add the VMware.HV.Helper modules who contains many commands and more especially the New-HVPool one in order to create Horizon pools.

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