PowerCLI @ VMworld 2011
I have to say, 2011 I think was my best VMworld yet – probably because I now work for VMware and was involved in so much cool stuff but hey – it was Awesome ! Whilst at VMworld I notice a lot of activity on the PowerCLI front, to capture this rather than a normal [...]
vSphere Distributed Switch PowerCLI cmdlets
For a long time now when presenting at VMworld or VMUGS I have asked the question – What would you like to see from PowerCLI next ? The standard answer I get at most of these is vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) cmdlets ! Luc Dekens did a great job with his series of posts showing [...]
Auto Deploy and Image Builder profile functions
One of the best and one of my favorite ideas from the PowerCLI team (there are so many to choose from) was to include an initialization script when you launch PowerCLI, this gives us the nice black background, custom prompt and also other things like the Get-VICommand function. Get-VICommand lists all the VMware related cmdlets [...]
UKVMUG–Nov 3rd 2011
For the first time ever there will be a UK wide VMUG and I have to say the organisers have certainly made sure it will be one that is not to be forgotten. With VMware super stars like Duncan Epping, Lee Dilworth and Cormac Hogan being flown in to give some great sessions and the [...]
PowerCLI-Man The Return
True to his word, PowerCLI-Man was back at VMworld Europe, luckily enough I managed to meet him this time too, for those who did not attend the full PowerCLI session you can watch the video below – One question remains though…. Who is PowerCLI-Man ?
North UK VMUG –11th Oct
“Ayup me duck” – Sorry, just practising for next week. For those of you in the north of the UK, if you aren’t already aware there is a “Virtual Machine User Group” next week on Tuesday 11th October. Sessions will not only include VMware but Citrix, Microsoft, EMC, Netapp, B2Net and many many more – [...]
PowerCLI at VMworld Europe ‘11
I have just had a quick chat with my good friend PowerCLI-Man and he wanted me to let you know that despite rumours he will be attending VMworld Europe in Copenhagen 2011 – I for one am pleased about this and hope I will finally get the chance to meet him. He said it was [...]
Auto Deploy and vCloud Director
When re-installing my home lab I realized that when using Auto Deploy with vCloud Director (vCD) you would need to have an extra step in the planning process, this makes sense if you think about the way that Auto Deploy and vCD works. vCloud Director installs an agent on the ESXi host which is used [...]
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 [...]
