Wednesday, 2 January 2019

Export all groups with members list - GSuite

Or, How to export all GSuite groups with members list using GAM tool?
Or, Using GAM tool to export GSuite groups list with members
Or, Export GSuite groups with all members including all other details
Or, Export members, managers, created date, owners, name etc… of all groups in GSuite using GAM tool

Descriptions: GSuite is not having any feasibility on web GUI to export groups list in to a CSV file along with members, however, you can export groups one by one with members list from group’s properties advanced settings. This becomes really tedious when you have a large list of groups though.

To achieve this, you may think of trying GAM tool available at GitHub.

If you already have GAM tool installed on your machines, you may try the command given below to export all groups in a CSV file with the name and email addresses.

Steps: Exporting groups with members list into a CSV file

Open CMD and Locate to the directory where GAM tool is installed










Type the command given below and hit enter
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gam print groups name description admincreated id aliases members owners managers settings > D:\temp\groups.csv
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You can change the destination directory to your own convenient path. In my case its D:\temp

Cheers, write me back if you have any query or feedback on this.

Wednesday, 26 December 2018

What is EVC in VMware, and how to enable it?

Or, What is EVC in VMware?
Or, How to enabled EVC in VMware?

What is EVC in VMware?
EVC stands for Enhanced vMotion Compatibility. It is used for enabling hardware compatibility between different hardware types of ESXi hosts so that we can easily migrate Virtual machines from one to another host even if the hardware of ESXi hosts are different.

If EVC is not enabled, you can't migrate a Virtual machine to an ESXi host which is having different hardware version with compare to another ESXi host.

Simply we can say that EVC ensures that all hosts in a cluster are VMotion compatible, even if they are not from the same hardware category.

How to enable EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility) in VMware ESXi Cluster?
Few easy steps and you are done with EVC configuration for your ESXi cluster.

IMP Note: Before enabling EVC mode, you must shutdown your all VMs of that particular ESXi host on which you are going to enable EVC mode and migrate VMs to another ESXi host/cluster if possible.

Steps:
- Log in to vCenter Server by using VMware vSphere Client
- Right Click on your Virtual Datacentre Cluster
- Go to Edit Settings
- Select VMware EVC in the left Panel
- Click on Change button to edit the EVC settings
- Select appropriate EVC settings for your Virtual Environment from the drop-down list...
- If validation succeeded with your desired CPU selection for EVC, you should be happy...
- Click OK twice to EVC mode dialog box and cluster setting dialog box...
- Power on your ESXi host.
- Migrate VMs from another host to this host to check if things are done correctly

You are done now... cheers…

Please write me back if you have any query or feedback.