April, 2009
Powershell: Regex Cheat Sheet
I was just doing a bit of work with regex (arghhhhh) and came across a nice cheat sheet, just posted it here for everyone else who doesn’t have a masters degree in mathematical equations. http://www.addedbytes.com/download/regular-expressions-cheat-sheet-v2/pdf/ There is also a neat site which holds libraries of regex codes already written: http://regexlib.com/
Whats new: VMware SDK and Toolkits
VMware are hosting some ‘VMware Coffee Talk Live Webinars.’ VMware will be hosting some SDK/Toolkit sessions. These will be aimed at people wanting to learn more about the SDK and scripting toolkits available for vSphere and whats new. They will be hosted using WebEx and they will be recording the sessions, sessions and pdfs will [...]
Customisation: Lesson 3 – Networking
Lessons so far in this blog post series: Customisation: Lesson 1 – Time Source Customisation: Lesson 2 – Service and Firewall Configuration Lets get down and dirty, by now you should not only starting to become familiar with the way things are working but also probably trying new things out, Great ! Now, as there [...]
Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell
Following my previous post where I gave you a quick review of Hal Rottenberg’s ‘ Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell’ book it is my pleasure to tell you that not only can you now buy the book but you can also see some sample chapters and sample code on the Sapien Press website so [...]
The turtle has landed: The VES is here
We have been waiting for a while, I have blogged about ‘The Virtualisation EcoShell Initiative’ and also shared some more images and a video in ‘The VESI is on its way’. Today the turtle has landed and the Virtualisation EcoShell is now available for public beta, so if you are keen to use the power [...]
Customisation: Lesson 2 – Service and Firewall Configuration
Following on from my last post in this series which showed us how to configure the ntp time source (Customisation: Lesson 1 – Time Source) lets get straight into it and start configuring more advanced areas. In this post I will show you how to open some of the firewall ports on your host which [...]
Customisation: Lesson 1 – Time Source
I thought I would help people learn the VI Toolkit whilst also creating a nice script which you can customise to your own environment, hopefully this is a script that will save you time in the future. The script we are going to build together in step by step instructions is a Customisation script. You [...]
