February, 2010
London VMUG – My Presentation
Yesterday was a fantastic VMware user group, definitely my favourite one so far, lots of great content from some fantastic people and some real rockstars (I think that is the 2010 word for Guru’s) like Mike Laverick, Carter Shanklin (Carter USM), Stuart Radnidge and many many more. I was privileged to open the show with [...]
Virtualising XenApp – What’s the magic number ?
In the past I have virtualised a number of different applications and types of servers, among these have been several Citrix WinFrame/MetaFrame/Presentation Server or as it is currently known XenApp Servers. Recently I have been asked about this on a number of occasions and the question is always the same: How many users can you [...]
Who created that VM ?
I was asked whilst on a customer site to work out who had created a VM, this is a common question in most environments where admin rights are the normal and creating a VM is as easy as creating a new word document. After trawling through the logs for a couple of minutes I found [...]
London VMware User Group – 25th Feb
I have been asked to do a session at the London VMUG on 25th February 2010, after my previous session where I took the attendees through a beginners introduction to PowerCLI, I think I will throw them straight in this time and show them how we can configure ESXi using PowerCLI. ESXi is obviously a [...]
PowerCLI: Configured Maximums – Storage
With vSphere introduced some new maximum’s which we not only have to memorise for the exams but also have to keep in mind when designing and using your infrastructure. In the back of your mind when adding a new host to a cluster you should always be thinking, how many hosts should be in this [...]
PowerCLI: How many HBA’s ?
I needed a quick one-liner today to help me find out how many HBA’s my hosts had, the following one-liner needs no more introduction: Output:
LucD-2 here to help PowerShell self evolve
For the PowerCLI lovers out there you may want to check out the recent Get-Scripting Podcast. This month Jonathan and I have interviewed the master of PowerCLI himself, Luc Dekens or LucD on the forums and LucD22 on twitter. Anyone who has ever visited the PowerCLI forums will know who Luc is, he also has [...]
Automated VM provisioning
The use cases for PowerCLI and automation continue to amaze me, a couple of nice use cases I have seen recently involve automating the deployment of VM’s for various reasons. The first reason, performance, what happens when a VM which is sat there for most of the year suddenly becomes busy and doesn’t have enough [...]
PowerCLI: Changing a VM IP Address with Invoke-VMScript
One of the cmdlets that has been much improved in the recent version of PowerCLU 4 U1 is the Invoke-VMScript cmdlet, This cmdlet runs a script or command inside the guest OS of each of the specified virtual machines. To run Invoke-VMScript, the user must have read access to the folder containing the virtual machine [...]
Learn PowerCLI by video
So you want to learn PowerCLI, if your not a book kinda person and haven’t purchased Hal Rottenberg’s great book, Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell then there is great news for you. Trainsignal have let it slip that coming soon to a website near you will be…. Managing VMware vSphere with PowerCLI – Hal [...]
