PowerShell Summit–My recorded sessions
Recently I was lucky enough to attend the PowerShell Summit at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, this was an awesome event which was focused on PowerShell, it included not only people who are using PowerShell but also some of the people who wrote and designed it. There were a bunch of great sessions, all of which [...]
My VMworld 2013 Sessions
This year there are some awesome sessions at VMworld, I think people are starting to realize the benefits of automation and how these can be achieved with VMware products. I am looking forward to attending and hopefully presenting some great sessions at VMworld 2013. Today is the last day of voting so if you are [...]
Gathering simple pool information from VMware View
Recently I was asked if we could list some basic information from VMware View using the cmdlets which come installed on the View Administrator server, the request was specifically a list of VMs and the pool they were in, this was easily achieved with the Get-DesktopVM cmdlet as below: -Alan
Automating storage with NetApp Workflow Automation
Do you wish you could automate your NetApp Storage infrastructure? Do you wish your storage admins could give an easy to use custom interface to other areas of the business allowing them to provision or use storage however they need whilst still applying best practice and corporate policies to the configuration? -Alan
Relating vCloud Director to vCenter in PowerCLI
I was listening to episode 216 of the PowerScripting Podcast recently, Hal and Jonathan were talking to vCloud Director (vCD) expert Jake Robinson and “meeting expert” (listen it will make sense) Damian Karlson, it was a great show, very funny and I highly recommend you listen here: http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/episode-216-jake-robinson-and-damian-karlson-talk-powercli/ Anyway, they were talking about relating vCD [...]
PowerCLI 5.1 R2 Released
VMware have just released PowerCLI 5.1 R2 and with it are the long awaiting cmdlets to work with VDS! I worked with these a little and although VDS are not 100% fully covered in this release the cmdlets are certainly useful for most of the things I needed to do and they opened up VDS [...]
Checking Domain Controllers for Secure LDAP connections with PowerShell
I wanted to blog this quick bit of PowerShell as I could not find it anywhere else on the web whilst searching. I needed to check the connected domain on a machine to see if SSL was configured and enabled for LDAP, the following script checks to see if SSL is enabled on one of [...]
SSH PowerShell tricks with plink.exe
Recently I needed to perform some actions in PowerCLI from the ESXi Shell, as you may know there are currently no cmdlets from VMware to allow you to run shell commands but one option which is popular within the communities is using a 3rd party tool called plink.exe to run the commands via SSH. Examples [...]
Listing remote Date and Time with PowerShell
Recently I needed to find the remote time of multiple windows servers on the network and compare these, I wrote a quick function that uses WMI to pull this information and return it in a DateTime object format: The Code Checking for time skew We can also use this function to easily check for time [...]
Learning PowerCLI–What does it take ?
One of the most asked questions to me at VMworld this year was “what does it take to learn PowerCLI”, lots of people have seen the fantastic things you can do with PowerCLI, where it is drawing your infrastructure out into Visio or checking your VMware environment for potential issues. I always tell people that [...]
