PowerCLI
vCheck 6.0 released
One of the most popular scripts on my site with 26,966 downloads of v5 has been the vCheck script, for those of you who haven’t seen this yet here is a quick summary of this script: Summary vCheck is a vCenter checking script, the script is designed to run as a scheduled task before you [...]
PowerCLI Android and iPhone App
A while back I found an iPhone and iPad app which allowed you to reference the PowerCLI Cmdlets, this is quite useful when you are on the move and need a quick reference. Today I came across a similar app for the android and also iPhone and wanted to share it. vPowerCLI5 Reference is an [...]
Using Console2 with PowerShell and PowerCLI
I may be a late comer to this app but there is a cool free app here called Console2. I am now using it for the quick work I need to do in PowerCLI and PowerShell, the stuff I dont need to save or need an editor for. Its great as a portable app, I [...]
Updating your Image Profile
If you have been using the image builder and auto deploy cmdlets which came with vSphere 5.0 then you will already know how easy it is to completely rebuild all hosts just by replacing a simple auto deploy rule with your new image profile and then rebooting your hosts. But how do you create your [...]
VMware vShield PowerShell Module
A while back I was asked if we could automate some areas of vShield, VMware Security suite of products. I was asked to do this for a demo which was to be used at VMworld, having never touched vShield before I was thrown into the world of security at the deep end. The first thing [...]
VM Start-up script
Back in Jan 2010 I wrote a script which shut down the virtual infrastructure, this was used to ensure your VMs were shut down and then your hosts were shut down in an orderly manner, ideal for things like UPS shutdown scripts etc. A slight spin on that is a Start-Up script, I was asked [...]
PowerCLI for vCloud Director–Have your say !
VMware have recently announced a survey on the PowerCLI site, this has been setup to poll people for what they think would be the best way to introduce cmdlets for vCloud Director, personally I think it’s a great move and proves that VMware really does listen to their customers opinions. Their questions not only ask [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
