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The VESI 1.2 – Get it now

Alan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:39:16 +0000

People who read my blog know how much I like the Virtualisation EcoShell, I love the way it adds the power of PowerCLI back into the GUI to enable you to create customised GUI’s all of your own enhancing the true power of PowerShell and allowing people who do not know how to code in PowerCLI (yet) the chance to harness the power.

Version 1.2 of the VESI has now been released and it has some great new features:

Charts

Create your own fantastic Area/Column/Doughnut/Line/Scatter/Stacked Area and Stacked Column graphs to represent every area of the virtual infrastructure, the graphs are highly customisable and can be saved as images or printed.

Best Practice Queries

As a consultant these queries are highly useful, this section focuses on the most common problems and data you would want to see straight away, I have a feeling this is just a taster of things to come as I can think of several more that could be added, keep an eye on this area !

Custom Attribute Manager

This area allows users to view all custom attributes and quickly modify custom attribute values against multiple entities.

Hyper-V

A Hyper-V PowerPack has been added for those of you who manage Hyper-V servers, a great way to use some of the enhanced Hyper-V features through PowerShell.

Sorry I don’t have a Hyper-V installation so am unable to show you the full node set of management features.

Download

I think you can see there are some great enhancements here, if you have not yet downloaded the VESI then do it now, if you already have then make sure you update to the latest version to grab these great enhancements.

You may also want to check out the getting started videos as a quick and easy way to learn how to use the features of VESI:

The VESI 1.2 – Get it now is a post from: Virtu-Al.
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTMs

Alan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:42:00 +0000

Yes, the long awaited System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (I’m sure they could have thought of a longer title) has just gone RTM.

See here for the full story

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Hyper-V Resources

Alan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:39:00 +0000

As Hyper-V is now available Microsoft have some on-line presentations taken from the virtualisation launch last month.

These are available on their website at :
http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/getvirtualnow.mspx.
A good overview of Hyper-V is at http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/assets/media/hdbp/local/msm.htm, which is one of the breakout sessions entitled “Hyper-V Deployment and Best Practises”.

Thanks to AP

Hyper-V Resources is a post from: Virtu-Al.
Virtu-Al is one of the authors of VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration"

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