PowerGUI / VESI
PowerCLI: Working with events
Today a question was asked of me, someone asked how to find out who had deleted a ResourcePool, now im not one to get anyone into trouble but I also cant resist a scripting challenge so here was the process I used to write the following one-liner: Ok, so we know that everything we do [...]
PowerCLI: Virtual Machine disk usage
Recently I have had a few comments on an old post I wrote showing a one-liner to get the VM’s disk sizes for each VM, I was asked if there was a way to export this information into a CSV file. The easy answer is yes but what you need to do is build up [...]
PowerCLI: Scripting ESXi
As the service console is moved further away from the hypervisor, people are finding it harder to configure ESX in the same way as has been done in previous versions. Moving forward the only way to do this really is by accessing ESXi through the API using scripting toolkits such as PowerCLI or the Perl [...]
PowerCLI: Automating traffic shaping on portgroups
I was contacted by someone who needed to automate some changes to their virtual infrastructure, I can never resist a challenge so of course I agreed to help. He worked for a Virtual Hosting platform who offer hosting at a low cost of entry. Each customer where he works is provided with a dedicated virtual [...]
PowerCLI: Comparing Clusters
A simple one-liner for today, I needed to check all our current clusters and ensure all the ‘Production’ clusters were set the same, now we could go to each one and look at the settings but in this wonderful PowerCLI world we live why would you do anything more than once ? The code is [...]
VESI & PowerGUI PowerPack V3
The popularity of this PowerPack never ceases to amaze me, as if it wasn’t enough to have more than 2500 downloads already it was also mentioned by the great Eric Sloof at the recent Dutch VMUG, check out a video of the session here (if you speak Dutch) or check out his slide deck here. [...]
Exploring the PowerCLI cmdlets – Get-NicTeamingPolicy Part 2
In my previous post “Exploring the PowerCLI cmdlets – Get-NicTeamingpolicy” I showed you how to output some great looking information for vSwitches which detailed all the information we may ever need to know, so whilst on the same cmdlet lets look at PortGroups, these have the same type of settings and the same cmdlet also [...]
Exploring the PowerCLI cmdlets – Get-NicTeamingPolicy
One of the new cmdlets from PowerCLU 4.0 Update 1 is Get-NicTeamingPolicy, so what does this do ? It retrieves the Nic teaming policies of the specified virtual switches and virtual port groups, obviously ! So how can we use this cmdlet ? Well, as it details the teaming policies of either a virtual switch [...]
Jump Start Virtualization EcoShell
I have talked about the Virtualisation EcoShell (VESI) enough on this blog for people to know what its all about but how do you get started ? One option is to join the FREE live meeting tomorrow (1/12/2009) at 17:00 GMT (11:00 am Central Standard Time) presented by Scott Herold by registering or joining here. Anyone [...]
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is here
Its here, I’m an author, watch out JK Rowling ! Its been a while coming but the vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is now available to buy on Amazon (US), we are working at getting it on the UK site but I’m just pleased to see it out there and available to buy. This book [...]
