May, 2009
PowerCLI on steroids – Custom attributes
PowerCLI is a great tool to manage your vSphere environment. No discussion about that! The package contains cmdlets for, let’s say 80% of your vSphere day to day tasks, and for the missing 20% you can always fall back on the vSphere APIs (or ask in the PowerCLI community). The only problem that pops up [...]
License Server Scripts
Duncan recently posted a nice license script which checks every ESX Host for the availability of the license source, in his post he challenged me to write a script which checked the state of the license server service and sent an email if it was not running. How could I let this pass without an [...]
PowerCLI – What’s new ?
Unless you have been living in a cave in the middle of the woods with no internet access you will know that today VMware released the long awaited and the worst kept secret of all time, vSphere. Along with vSphere comes alot of other lowercase v starting words including vCompute, vNetwork, vStorage and vPowerCLI, actually [...]
Customisation: Lesson 4 – PortGroups
Lessons so far in this blog post series: Customisation: Lesson 1 – Time Source Customisation: Lesson 2 – Service and Firewall Configuration Customisation: Lesson 3 – Networking So, we now have our host added to virtual center, we have it syncing the time with our central time server, we have the firewall adjusted to meet [...]
UKVMUG: PowerCLI Presentation/Class
Last week at the UK London VMware User Group they tried something different, in the UKVMUG forums there had been a few threads from people interested in learning more about the VI toolkit or as it is now known PowerCLI. I was contacted by one of the UKVMUG leaders and asked if I would be [...]
Icomasoft: PowerCLI Reference Card
I have just had an email from the guys at icomasoft letting me know they have released a PowerCLI Reference Card much like my reference card release earlier this year, this is in a real nice PDF format and has some powershell basics as well as the PowerCLI cmdlet references and examples. This looks [...]
Unofficial Online VMware User Group
I have mentioned this to a few people now and recently performed a survey on my site to see if people would be interested, the results were very good, thanks to all who gave me feedback. Based on your feedback I would like to announce the first Unofficial Online VMware User Group. The Agenda [...]
VMware Converter 4 – Linux Migration Issue
I have been performing a fair few P2Vs recently and came across an interesting issue with VMware vCenter Converter v4.0.0 Build 146302 when virtualising a Redhat 4 server over to our ESX environment. I’m adding it here as something to keep an eye out for as its not visible straight away so please double check [...]
007 – License to design
Duncan Epping over at Yellow-Bricks.com has become one of the first VMware Design Experts, I couldn’t let this momentous occasion go without a quick image manipulation especially when you see his VCDX number: VCDX007 Congratulations Duncan !
Exchange Audit
I received a comment the other day on my Server/Workstation audit script from someone saying they had modified my script to audit Exchange 2003. As you can imagine, I was intrigued and asked to have a look, I cant tell you how much it pleases me that people are able to take the scripts I [...]
