PowerShell Friday: Adding CPU’s with PowerCLI
Sometimes you need to add CPUs to your virtual machines. Adding CPU’s is easy on a virtual machine. Of course you can do this from the vSphere Client, where you can select the number of CPUs and the number of cores per CPU. If you…
PowerShell Friday: Snapshots
Virtual machine snapshots are useful for sysadmins, since they preserve the state of a virtual machine’s virtual disk and, optionally, virtual memory before upgrading an application for example. VM Snapshots are also taken by a lot of backup applications for VMs at the start of the backup and…
PowerShell Friday: stopping VMs
This weeks PowerShell Friday is about stopping VMs with PowerCLI. If you want to gracefully shutdown your VM, which I think you will do most of the time you are better of using Shutdown-VMGuest . This will use the VMware tools to gracefully shutdown your VM. Just as…
PowerShell Friday: Starting VMs
With PowerCLI you can manage and automate your VMware infrastructure from the command line. After you connect to vCenter you can do all kinds of nifty stuff. For example it is very easy to start virtual machines. You can use the complete name of the VM,…
PowerShell Friday: Connecting to vCenter
For our first cmdlet on PowerShell Friday we are going to connect to vCenter. Before we can do anything useful on an ESXi host or vCenter we need to connect to the server. Connecting to vCenter or an ESXi host is done with the command:…
PowerShell Friday: Getting Started with PowerShell and PowerCLI
PowerShell was release on November 14, 2006 and is now (or should be?) one of the major components in an admins life. If you’re just getting started on Windows or are new to the whole scripting and automation scene, this one is especially for you. I…
VMware Fling – PowerCLI Cmdlet for NFS
Who does not want to be like PowerCLI Man? For all of you PowerCLI fans out there, VMware Labs released a new fling a couple of days ago. The PowerCLI Cmdlet for NFS allows you to manage NFS from within PowerCLI. VMware PowerCLI is one of the…
VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.0 Release 1 GA
Last week VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.0 Release 1 was announced to be General Available. This release of vSphere PowerCLI introduces a number of new capabilities and expands on the existing cmdlets introducing single console access allowing you to easily connect to vCloud Air and enabling…
VMware Fling – PowerActions for vSphere Web Client
VMware released a new fling called ‘PowerActions for vSphere Web Client’ which integrates the vSphere Web Client and PowerCLI to provide complex automation solutions from within the standard vSphere management client. In short, PowerAction can now run PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts from the Web Client! How does it work?…
How to link VMware View desktop to its replica
A while back I was looking at a VMware View environment that had Storage DRS enabled and set to automatic. If I recall correctly, one of the first things the installation document from VMware mentions is not to use Storage DRS in a View enviroment….
Dutch VMUG: PowerCLI is for administrators!
Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf did a great presentation on PowerCLI. PowerCLI is based on PowerShell. PowerShell is designed by Microsoft with the SysAdmin in mind. It’s the universal language for Windows data centers. Most of the time GUI interfaces are single purpose and rigid….
Virtualization EcoShell @Dutch VMUG
For all the folks that didn’t hear about the EcoShell yet: The Virtualization EcoShell makes it possible to create scripts to automate management tasks for your virtual infrastructure, all from a user friendly user interface. These scripts can be saved for later use. This is…
Virtualization EcoShell release date
We already reported on this and even made a video of Scott Herold’s demo at VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes, the Virtualization EcoShell Initiative, VESI for short.The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative is a new Vizioncore-sponsored community initiative being led by virtualization expert and author Scott Herold….
VMworld Europe 2009 – EcoShell introduction
At the booth of Vizioncore Scott Herold gave a presentation and demonstration about the Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI). The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI) is a new Vizioncore-sponsored community initiative being led by virtualization expert and author Scott Herold. The goal of The VESI community is…
More PowerShell stuff
Last year I started to write a small program in Perl to document the virtual infrastructures we encounter at client locations. But since it’s all PowerShell it was time to start to write the same thing in PowerShell.