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July, 2010

PowerCLI Book Update

As we announced in our post “We’re writing a book!”, Luc and myself started writing a PowerCLI book. At about the same time I got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join EMC as a vSpecialist, how could I turn that down ! Now you don’t become a vSpecialist for free, I have been spending a fair [...]

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Why EMC for VMware

Recently at the London VMware User Group I gave an additional presentation on top of the normal PowerCLI session I normally provide (which was interactive this time and I think worked very well). The subject of this session was “Why EMC for VMware”, I have had a number of questions from people who know that [...]

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London VMUG – Thu 15 July – Lets get interactive !

I have been given my normal resident slot at the London VMUG this Thursday, 15th July. At the last VMUG I showed how vEcoShell could be used to add the graphical interface back onto our PowerCLI scripts and also gave an overview of the “VMware Community PowerPack”, when performing the demo I showed how easy [...]

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Speed up PowerCLI

Whilst at the last UK VMware User Group I was talking to someone who advised his PowerCLI prompt took a long time to initialise, he had the latest version (4.0 U1) and the latest version of PowerShell (V2), this is a problem I had seen before and especially when your computer is not attached to [...]