Introduction and why I Supercharge Excel with ChatGPT When you read “Supercharge Excel with ChatGPT”, you might think of some magic or something very special. In fact, I used ChatGPT lately to “migrate” my Veeam vSphere Tagging Excel Tool to something independent. I’ve had various good feedback on my Excel …
Read More »Veeam vSphere Tagging Excel Tool
In this blog post I wanted to introduce my personal Veeam vSphere Tagging Excel Tool which I’ve been using over the years within several customer projects to simply onboarding VM’s to backup jobs. Why vSphere Tags? It is certainly known nowadays, that they hold the key to unlocking the full …
Read More »vCenter role for Veeam ONE with PowerCLI
The idea behind the vCenter role for Veeam ONE Based on my original blogpost from 2020 where I created a vCenter role for Veeam Backup & Replication with PowerCLI, I decided to do the same for Veeam ONE. As a result the blog post here with the new script was …
Read More »Get vSphere Tags out of a category with PowerCLI
Introduction to vSphere Tags Using vSphere tags in your VMware environment is no longer a secret. It gives you flexibility, easier management and control of your virtual machines. If you want to see how to use vSphere Tags with Veeam check out my article here: Using VM Tags with vSphere …
Read More »Creating a vCenter role for Veeam V11 with PowerCLI
Since I was tired to click roles together in vCenter server, I wrote a simple script on creating a vCenter role for Veeam with PowerCLI. This PowerShell / PowerCLI script lets you create a new vCenter server role with all the cumulative privileges and permissions to use them with Veeam …
Read More »How to backup ESXi hosts with PowerCLI
At the moment I have a lot of scripts laying around which are either snippets or not publishable. Therefore, I’m going to edit them all in the upcoming blog posts and upload them for the community. Today, I’m going to show you a simple but powerful and easy to use …
Read More »PowerShell File Hash Calculator Script
File Hash Calculator in PowerShell This File Hash Calculator Script in PowerShell lets you calculate a hash of a given file and compares it with the original hash/checksum the user provides. The Get-FileHash cmdlet computes the hash value for a file by using a specified hash algorithm. A hash value …
Read More »Veeam Backup Validator PowerShell GUI
About two weeks ago i remembered a very underestimated feature from Veeam. The Veeam Backup Validator ! So I decided to create a Veeam Backup Validator PowerShell GUI out of it. This command line tool helps you with checking your Veeam Backups. It checks your backup files via CRC at …
Read More »How to use Veeam with custom VM attributes
Introduction Today i’m writing about a Veeam feature which i haven’t seen a lot out in the field. In my opinion, you can use this feature to easily sort and evaluate the backup state of virtual machines backed up with Veeam Backup & Replication. During the creation of a Veeam …
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