PowerGUI / VESI
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 [...]
Say goodbye to VESI
One of the most frequent questions I get asked at user groups or by people who know I am responsible for the community PowerPack is which product should they use, normally the question is PowerGUI or VESI ? My standard answer was to always ask them if they preferred trains or turtles but the answer [...]
Simple PowerShell selection box
A few times in PowerGUI or generally I have needed the user to select a single entity so that I can use this entity further in the code to narrow down the output, with this in mind i created a quick PrimalForms form which can be used as a function and a single object selected, [...]
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 [...]
Goodbye Virtu-Al – Hello Community
This may not be news to some of you as I have mentioned it at both the Dutch VMUG and the London VMUG but anyway, if you were not lucky enough to make it to these because you live in a far away place then please read on… The Virtu-Al PowerPack is no more – [...]
Why vEcoShell or PowerGUI makes sense
A little while back I started a PowerPack which could be used in either PowerGUI or vEcoShell – the application formerly known as “The Virtualisation EcoShell or VESI, my PowerPack was a collection of the most used scripts from my site all laid out in a nice GUI format. Now why would you put a [...]
We’re writing a book
Some of you might be interested to know, Alan and Luc are writing a PowerCLI book. We don’t have many more details at the moment but wanted to let you know, as we are both very excited (and nervous by the amount of work) about this project. As you know we both live and breathe PowerCLI. And we [...]
PowerShell / PowerCLI / VESI & the Dutch VMUG
You may have noticed a distinct lack of posts from me recently, I have been on holiday, I had a great time staying in Belgium and The Netherlands, a fantastic country which I would recommend to anyone thinking about travelling in northern Europe, not just for the red lights or “space cakes” either ! Whilst [...]
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:
