September, 2011
Automated install of vShield Services
Following on from my previous post in this series where I showed how we could deploy vShield manager into our virtual infrastructure I thought I would take it one step further and show how we can use the vShield API’s within PowerShell to make some nice PowerShell advanced functions which will install the vShield services [...]
ESXi 5.0 Reference Poster
During VMworld most people I talked to were either moving to ESXi or excited by the new features of vSphere 5 and were investigating what they would need to do to upgrade and get the latest and greatest. Those who attended the Hands on Lab were lucky enough to grab a poster bought to you [...]
Recent Issues and Hacking Idiots
I don’t normally do these personally type posts but I just wanted to say sorry for the recent issues with my site. I am still in the process of rebuilding my blog to its former scripting goodness but its taking time. If you don’t already know my blog was hacked and used to spam and [...]
Image Builder and Auto Deploy Powerpack
Recently with vSphere 5 VMware enabled you to deploy the ESXi image via PXE boot to your hosts, to do this you need some PowerCLI knowledge. Now just because I find PowerCLI easy to use and a great product it doesn’t mean the next person will. Luckily PowerGUI gave us a great way to add [...]
Quick and simple storage vMotion scripts
Here are a couple of quick storage vMotion scripts, easy enough but they come in useful when moving to a new datastore. They will obviously be bound by the amount of concurrent sVMotions allowed for your version of ESX, the rest will queue until others have completed. These are handy to fire off and walk [...]
PowerShell automated install of vShield 5
I have been learning a little about vShield lately, mainly for some work I had to complete for VMworld Las Vegas but also as I started coming up with some cool stuff when using PowerShell to talk the the REST API of vShield. More on that will come in a following post but I wanted [...]
ESXCLI and killing a stuck VM
With the release of vSphere 5.0 there have been some changes to ESXCLI to bring the fragmented commands into more of a formal and discoverable structure as part of this ESXCLI has been expanded, as a reminder ESXCLI can be used from both vCLI and also in technical support mode, a high level of the [...]
VMware Management with PowerCLI 5.0
As VMware expands its PowerShell offering, known as PowerCLI, the poster has been a key resource for keeping the details close to hand and ensuring the help is right in front of you when you need it. An updated poster was released at VMworld and adds to the original vSphere PowerCLI core cmdlets enabling people [...]
