January, 2010
PowerCLI: Virtual Machine disk usage
Recently I have had a few comments on an old post I wrote showing a one-liner to get the VM’s disk sizes for each VM, I was asked if there was a way to export this information into a CSV file. The easy answer is yes but what you need to do is build up [...]
Top 10 Virtualisation blogger
All I can say is WOW ! (and Thank You) I have been watching and voting in Eric’s polls since I started in virtualisation and never ever expected to see my name up there in lights, and in the top 10 too ! Thanks to everyone who voted for me, I really really appreciate it, [...]
PowerCLI on the iPhone
Well not quite but the next best thing, I have been putting off getting an iPhone for a while now, I have always been a Windows mobile man starting back with one of the first windows mobile devices around, these were always one step ahead of the other phones when it came to the gadgets [...]
PowerCLI: Scripting ESXi
As the service console is moved further away from the hypervisor, people are finding it harder to configure ESX in the same way as has been done in previous versions. Moving forward the only way to do this really is by accessing ESXi through the API using scripting toolkits such as PowerCLI or the Perl [...]
ESX4 U1 & the Intel 82576 Gigabit Network Adapter
Previously when installing ESX it has picked up all devices and automatically installed everything needed to use the server as an ESX host, recently whilst installing a new Dell R710 (a great review of the server can be found on the techhead.co.uk site here) I came across an issue where the additional Network Adapter in [...]
PowerCLI: Automating traffic shaping on portgroups
I was contacted by someone who needed to automate some changes to their virtual infrastructure, I can never resist a challenge so of course I agreed to help. He worked for a Virtual Hosting platform who offer hosting at a low cost of entry. Each customer where he works is provided with a dedicated virtual [...]
PowerCLI: Comparing Clusters
A simple one-liner for today, I needed to check all our current clusters and ensure all the ‘Production’ clusters were set the same, now we could go to each one and look at the settings but in this wonderful PowerCLI world we live why would you do anything more than once ? The code is [...]
vSphere Quick Start Guide – PowerCLI and PDF
In case you haven’t bought a copy of the “vSphere Quick Start Guide” yet and were thinking of buying one, there are a couple of things I would like to point out… I was responsible for adding all the PowerCLI throughout the book, basically if something is explained and there is an easy way to [...]
PowerCLI: Shutdown your Virtual Infrastructure
Imagine your Power intake to your rack has failed, imagine your UPS has kicked in but is about to run out of power, you need to quickly shut down all of your virtual infrastructure…. quick run ! Or, you could let PowerCLI do the work for you and help you safely shutdown your entire virtual [...]
Welcome to 2010
I wasn’t going to do a 2010 post but its looking like its going to be a great year for me, already so far I have seen two things which have totally astounded me… Firstly I was mentioned as one of the “Top 5 Planet V12n bloggers 2009” something which leaves me totally flabbergasted, I [...]
