Scripts from the rstechhub.com home lab: a VMware Cloud Foundation lab on Dell and HPE servers, MikroTik networking, TrueNAS and Synology storage, and Veeam backups. Each script is written up in a blog post, linked below. Every folder has its own README with usage and the gotchas found along the way.
All examples use placeholder names and addresses (example.internal, 192.0.2.x, 192.168.x.x). Adjust them to your environment.
| Folder | Script | What it does | Blog post |
|---|---|---|---|
redfish/ |
Get-ServerInventory.ps1 |
Firmware and physical-disk inventory across Dell iDRAC 9/7/8 and HPE iLO 4, flags version mismatches. Read-only. | Firmware updates on a running VCF cluster |
redfish/ |
Set-IdracCertificate.ps1 |
CA-signed iDRAC 9 web certificate: CSR on the iDRAC, signed with certreq, imported over Redfish. |
Core Infrastructure Part 4 |
dns/ |
Import-DnsRecords.ps1 |
Bulk A + PTR records from a CSV, creates missing zones, never overwrites. -WhatIf supported. |
Core Infrastructure Part 3 |
dns/ |
Test-DnsRecords.ps1 |
Read-only check for duplicate IPs, A records without PTR, and stale PTRs. Run before a VCF deployment. | Core Infrastructure Part 3 |
windows/ |
Set-TemplateBaseline.ps1 |
Baseline settings for a Windows Server VM before it becomes a vCenter template. | Core Infrastructure Part 7 |
windows/ |
Set-KmsDnsRecord.ps1 |
KMS host A + PTR and the _vlmcs._tcp SRV record, so clones activate on their own. |
Core Infrastructure Part 7 |
veeam/ |
New-VeeamAdminAccess.ps1, Restart-VeeamServices.ps1 |
AD group and named admin for Veeam, so the domain Administrator is not used; stop, start or restart all Veeam services in order for troubleshooting. | Backing Up the Lab with Veeam |
vmware/ |
Add-NfsDatastore.ps1 |
Storage VMkernel adapter, jumbo-frame path check, NFS datastore, NFS 3 by default (PowerCLI). | TrueNAS Part 5 |
truenas/ |
set-storage-vlan.sh |
Tagged storage VLAN with jumbo frames on TrueNAS SCALE, as the management and gateway network. | TrueNAS Part 5 |
truenas/ |
create-nfs-shares.sh |
Datasets and NFS shares for vSphere, vCenter backups and Veeam, bound to the storage IP. | TrueNAS Part 5 |
mikrotik/ |
*.rsc |
RouterOS 7: read-only backup user, break-glass admin, clear logs. | MikroTik config backups |
linux/ |
switch-backup.sh |
Nightly MikroTik /export over read-only SSH, committed to Git only when something changed. |
MikroTik config backups |
linux/ |
vault-backup.sh |
Nightly consistent backup of a Vaultwarden install to an NFS share, with retention. |
- PowerShell scripts: Windows PowerShell 5.1 or PowerShell 7. Modules needed are listed in each folder's README (DnsServer, ActiveDirectory, VMware PowerCLI).
- Shell scripts: bash, and the packages listed in each script's header. TrueNAS scripts run on TrueNAS SCALE 25.x.
- RouterOS snippets: RouterOS 7.
Every push runs PSScriptAnalyzer on the PowerShell scripts and ShellCheck on the shell scripts. See CHANGELOG.md for what changed.
Provided as-is under the MIT licence. Test in a lab first. Read each script's header before running it: the read-only ones say so, the others change configuration.