Browsing through your VC database like a drive
Yesterday I was browsing through the PowerShell scripts posted in the VI Toolkit community on the VMware site. One of the scripts I immediately liked was the “Create a PSDrive to browse your inventory” script. With this script you can browse through your vCenter database…
Managing VMware with PowerShell FAQ
If you’re interested in automating your virtual environment you should check out this link. It containts a list of frequently asked questions about PowerShell combined with VMware. http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-4210
Searching for a VM
One of the problems that most people have with virtualizing vCenter is that they don’t know where the vCenter VM is when there are problems. There’s a fairly easy way to counter this problem.
Creating portgroups with PowerShell
I must be a workaholic. I was browsing my laptop for some movie and I came across a folder with all kinds of plugins for VirtualCenter. Things like addPortgroup and other stuff. Although it’s very handy to use those plugins I like to be able…
VMware and PowerShell
I’m from the pre-WIMP era, like in pre Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointers. There wasn’t anything like a graphical user interface. Even when they emerged like Norton Commander and PC Tools I still did most of my work from the commandline. Stuff like 4DOS enriched my…