November, 2009
Jump Start Virtualization EcoShell
I have talked about the Virtualisation EcoShell (VESI) enough on this blog for people to know what its all about but how do you get started ? One option is to join the FREE live meeting tomorrow (1/12/2009) at 17:00 GMT (11:00 am Central Standard Time) presented by Scott Herold by registering or joining here. Anyone [...]
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is here
Its here, I’m an author, watch out JK Rowling ! Its been a while coming but the vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is now available to buy on Amazon (US), we are working at getting it on the UK site but I’m just pleased to see it out there and available to buy. This book [...]
VMware Converter – VMXNET3 Issue
How do you move your VMs from one vCenter to another ? Today whilst moving a few VMs from my test vCenter server to my Non Production vCenter server I hit upon an issue with VMware converter, this is just a warning so you do not have the same issue. I used VMware Converter (Latest [...]
PowerCLI to SQL Databases
One of the things I love about PowerShell is how versatile it is, its a wonderful framework which can slot pieces of a puzzle together to create a masterpiece, Now I know it exists I can see every day uses and needs for PowerShell, it fits into every nuck and cranny. Take for example my [...]
PowerCLI: Bring on the next version
In the previous version of PowerCLI we had 165 great cmdlets to play with and didn’t we have fun, now in the new version (Download Here) we have a whopping….. That’s right, an extra 68 cmdlets (4 of the old cmdlets were renamed from the previous version), bring on the fun ! So as well [...]
PowerShell Gotcha – Export-CSV, Out-GridView and others
I came across this one a little while back and was hoping it would be fixed in V2, I haven’t seen anyone else mention it so I thought I would add it to my blog as a warning to other PowerShell freaks like me…. I have changed the example to be more universal so you [...]
Onyx – Why Learn PowerCLI ?
The PowerCLI Team yesterday published with the Onyx Project a great tool with lots of potential. The blogging community received Carter’s announcement enthousiastically (see my previous post The Onyx has landed). As a casual PowerCLI user you might think, the product has a strange name but it is the answer to all my scripting and [...]
The Onyx has landed
A couple of months ago Carter Shanklin (Product Manager of Automating the World) teased us all with a wonderful application which creates PowerCLI scripts for you by tracing your actions in the vCenter Client. The scripts it produces are not PowerCLI perfect but they do produce a raw format of a script which can be [...]
VESI & PowerGUI PowerPack V2
As the official download count for V1 of my PowerPack has now hit over 1000 downaloads (I cant thank you all enough), I have now released V2 of my PowerPack for VESI and PowerGUI, this is more like the version I wanted to release first time around. In the first PowerPack, I took a fair [...]
vCheck Hypervisor style
The thing I love about adding my work to my site is that some people pick up what I have created and expand on it, I like to think that’s a sign of firstly my scripts being interesting enough to expand and secondly my scripts being so well written that anyone can pick them up [...]
