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Horizon Recover Instant Clone VDI Machine

This script Recovers a Horizon View Instant Clone using the VMware Horizon api's. You can use this to 'rebuild' an Instant Clone if there is an issue with the machine.
This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console). The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

Version: 3.6.8 • Created: 2020-01-11 • Modified: 2023-11-24

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Show Horizon Admins

This script retreives the administrative users and groups in a Horizon View environment.
You can this script to make sure administrators have the right permissions in Horizon View?
This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console). The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

Version: 3.5.9 • Created: 2020-01-11 • Modified: 2020-02-04

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Get Horizon UAG Health

This script connects to all pod's in a Cloud Pod Architecture(CPA) or only the local one if CPA hasn't been initialized and pulls all health information for configured UAG's.
This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console). The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

Note: Requires PowerCLI 11.4 or higher and Horizon 7.10 or higher

Version: 4.6.9 • Created: 2020-01-09 • Modified: 2020-09-23

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Change Horizon VDI pool desktop count

Changes the amount VDI desktops in a desktop pool. Use UP_FRONT or ON_DEMAND for the Provisioningtype depending if you want to provision all desktops up front. If UP_FRONT is used minNumberOfMachines and numberOfSpareMachines will be ignored.

This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console). The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

This script requires VMWare PowerCLI to be installed on the machine running the script.
PowerCLI can be installed through PowerShell (PowerShell version 5 or higher required) by running the command 'Install-Module VMWare.PowerCLI -Force -AllowCLobber -Scope AllUsers'

Version: 4.7.13 • Created: 2020-01-09 • Modified: 2023-11-24

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Change Horizon RDS farm machine count

Changes the amount of RDS hosts in a Horizon Farm.

This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console). The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

This script requires VMWare PowerCLI to be installed on the machine running the script.
PowerCLI can be installed through PowerShell (PowerShell version 5 or higher required) by running the command 'Install-Module VMWare.PowerCLI -Force -AllowCLobber -Scope AllUsers'

Version: 1.5.6 • Created: 2020-01-09 • Modified: 2020-02-11

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Enable Horizon Desktop Pool

Enables a Horizon Desktop pool

Can be used as an automated or manual action to enable a Horizon Desktop pool for planned maintenance.

This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console) which is part of the relevant Desktop Pool. The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address and the Desktop Pool name, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

This script requires VMWare PowerCLI to be installed on the machine running the script.

PowerCLI can be installed through PowerShell (PowerShell version 5 or higher required) by running the command 'Install-Module VMWare.PowerCLI -Force -AllowCLobber -Scope AllUsers'

Version: 5.11.55 • Created: 2019-08-22 • Modified: 2023-05-24

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Enable Horizon Pool Provisioning

Enables VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop pool provisioning

Can be used as a manual or automated action to disable Horizon View Virtual Desktop pool provisioning if a resource shortage is detected. This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console) which is part of the relevant Desktop Pool. The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address and the Desktop Pool name, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

This script requires VMWare PowerCLI module to be installed on the machine running the script.
PowerCLI can be installed through PowerShell (PowerShell version 5 or higher required) by running the command 'Install-Module VMWare.PowerCLI -Force -AllowCLobber -Scope AllUsers'

Version: 3.12.23 • Created: 2019-08-22 • Modified: 2023-05-24

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Disable Horizon Pool Provisioning

Disables VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop pool provisioning

Can be used as a manual or automated action to disable Horizon View Virtual Desktop pool provisioning if a resource shortage is detected. This action should be executed against a Horizon endpoint machine (one which has the HZ Primary Connection Server column populated in ControlUp Console) which is part of the relevant Desktop Pool. The script uses the target machine to determine the connection server address and the Desktop Pool name, and is executed on the machine running ControlUp Console.

This script requires VMWare PowerCLI module to be installed on the machine running the script.
PowerCLI can be installed through PowerShell (PowerShell version 5 or higher required) by running the command 'Install-Module VMWare.PowerCLI -Force -AllowCLobber -Scope AllUsers'

Version: 3.13.29 • Created: 2019-08-22 • Modified: 2023-05-24

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Set VM resource allocation level

This script will change the resource allocation of a given vSphere VM. By default, the allocation is increased one 'SharesLevel' for CPU, HDD, Memory or all three.
If the SharesLevel for a resource is 'Custom' this will not be changed. ALL hard disks will be set to a new SharesLevel based on the current level of the FIRST disk. Example, script is set to Increase level for All resources:
CPU SharesLevel 'Normal' ---> CPU ShareLevel 'High'
Memory SharesLevel 'Custom' ---> Memory SharesLevel 'Custom'
FIRST HDD SharesLevel 'Low', SECOND HDD SharesLevel 'Normal' ---> ALL HDD SharesLevel 'Normal'

Version: 1.0.2 • Created: 2019-03-19 • Modified: 2019-03-19

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Set host state to maintenance

Placing a host in Maintenance will migrate the powerred on VMs to other hosts in the cluster. If the Evacuate switch is passed all offline machines a migrated too.
This script will only place a host in Maintenance if the cluster it is part of is DRSFullyAutomated.
If the host uses a VSAN and the PowerCLI version is high enough the default VsanEvacuationMode setting will be used. This is only supported with PowerCLI 6 or higher.

Version: 1.4.10 • Created: 2019-02-21 • Modified: 2019-03-31

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Migrate VM storage

This script will migrate the ALL the VM (local) disks to the specified datastore. If all the disks are already on the target datastore the script will exit.

Version: 1.2.6 • Created: 2019-02-10 • Modified: 2019-05-13

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Get datastore files

This script gets the files in a selected VMware vSphere Datastore, filtered by the last time they were modified and size. This is useful for researching disk space usage, specifically when you're intereseted in finding out which files consume significant storage space.

Version: 1.16.49 • Created: 2019-01-16 • Modified: 2019-04-28

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Migrate VM

This script will migrate a vSphere VM to the selected host.

Version: 1.2.11 • Created: 2019-01-15 • Modified: 2019-05-13

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