March, 2009
Free PowerShell Editor
Ever go to a server and need to edit a PowerShell script which you have scheduled to run on a daily basis but only have notepad installed to edit it, yes it can be done but its not nice, is it ? Sapien have released a FREE thumb drive app which is stored as [...]
ESX 3.5 Update 4 Released
VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 has been released, find the official download link here and the documentation here.
VMware Virtual User Group
I was contacted and asked if it was a good idea to start a VMware Virtual User Group, I think this is a great idea and it would compliment the already existing physical user groups and podcasts which exist. To get an idea of the kind of format please visit Marco Shaw’s site and watch [...]
VI Toolkit Presentation
This week I gave a presentation to the UK PowerShell User Group at the Microsoft HQ in the UK, this was also available over live meeting and seemed to go quite well, despite the issues with the projectors, wifi, sound and rooms we were in. For those people who couldn’t make the live meeting or [...]
Using the VI APIs from PowerShell
The trigger for this article was a question I got from Alan. He wanted to know how he could get, from within a PowerShell script, a report of all the tasks that were run against a specific virtual machine during the last seven days. The VI Toolkit (VITK) has a Get-Task cmdlet, but that cmdlet [...]
VI Toolkit One-Liner: VM Guest Disk Sizes
A Simple One-liner today but it shows you how to add information along the pipe line to enable new properties which can be formed using other cmdlets or simple math statements on existing properties: This one-liner will give you the VM disk or partition sizes for each of your VMs: ForEach ($VM in (Get-VM |Get-View)){($VM.Guest.Disk [...]
VI Toolkit One Liner: Correct HAL ?
I have just re-worked an old script which I created to check each VM to ensure they are using the correct HAL based on the amount of processors they have installed, as it turns out I managed to get this into a nice one-liner: Get-VM | Where {$_.PowerState -eq “PoweredOn”} | Sort Name | Select [...]
VI Toolkit One Liner: Who’s busy ?
Most of my work with the VI Toolkit has been scripts so far, well the work that I have added to this blog anyway, I use one-liner’s on a daily basis to make my job easier. It was suggested to me that I should add some one-liners to my blog as I’m going to be [...]
PowerGUI VMware PowerPack 2.1.5 released
Scott and Kirk have done it again, they are really kicking out the updates to this powerpack recently and this one adds some great features: 1. As you can see by the image, they have greatly improved the icons making a great visual experience. 2. You may notice a new Action on the menu… Generate [...]
Virtu-Al goes mobile
I have now optimised my site for mobile viewing, if you use a mobile browser this blog should now be much easier to read. All your favourite VI Toolkit goodness in the palm of your hand Any issues please let me know !
