PowerCLI
My VMworld 2013 Sessions
This year there are some awesome sessions at VMworld, I think people are starting to realize the benefits of automation and how these can be achieved with VMware products. I am looking forward to attending and hopefully presenting some great sessions at VMworld 2013. Today is the last day of voting so if you are [...]
Gathering simple pool information from VMware View
Recently I was asked if we could list some basic information from VMware View using the cmdlets which come installed on the View Administrator server, the request was specifically a list of VMs and the pool they were in, this was easily achieved with the Get-DesktopVM cmdlet as below: -Alan
Automating storage with NetApp Workflow Automation
Do you wish you could automate your NetApp Storage infrastructure? Do you wish your storage admins could give an easy to use custom interface to other areas of the business allowing them to provision or use storage however they need whilst still applying best practice and corporate policies to the configuration? -Alan
Relating vCloud Director to vCenter in PowerCLI
I was listening to episode 216 of the PowerScripting Podcast recently, Hal and Jonathan were talking to vCloud Director (vCD) expert Jake Robinson and “meeting expert” (listen it will make sense) Damian Karlson, it was a great show, very funny and I highly recommend you listen here: http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/episode-216-jake-robinson-and-damian-karlson-talk-powercli/ Anyway, they were talking about relating vCD [...]
PowerCLI 5.1 R2 Released
VMware have just released PowerCLI 5.1 R2 and with it are the long awaiting cmdlets to work with VDS! I worked with these a little and although VDS are not 100% fully covered in this release the cmdlets are certainly useful for most of the things I needed to do and they opened up VDS [...]
Learning PowerCLI–What does it take ?
One of the most asked questions to me at VMworld this year was “what does it take to learn PowerCLI”, lots of people have seen the fantastic things you can do with PowerCLI, where it is drawing your infrastructure out into Visio or checking your VMware environment for potential issues. I always tell people that [...]
Using PowerShell v3.0 CIM cmdlets with VMware ESXi Hosts
I noticed that in PowerShell V3.0 some CIM cmdlets were introduced which allowed PowerShell to be able to interact with CIM providers and gather information, when importing the CIM Cmdlets into my session you can see we have a number of new cmdlets to work with: Even though I know PowerCLI 5.1 R1 (Current release [...]
vMotion and SvMotion Details with PowerCLI
Today I was asked if there was a way to list the vMotions and SvMotions which had occurred in an infrastructure, not only this but they needed to know which hosts the VMs had moved to, the reason for this was licensing. Firstly they needed to confirm that certain VMs were firstly setup with DRSAffinityrules [...]
Quick Host Profile Reports
Today I needed to grab some quick information on my hosts, which hosts had host profiles enabled, if they were compliant and if not what where the issues ? With the below script I was easily able to grab this information, as can be seen in the screenshot below: The Script -Alan
VMworld 2012 Barcelona
I have high hopes for VMworld Barcelona, personally I had a great, if not busy time at VMworld 2012 SFO and hope to continue this in true European style in Barcelona. I wanted to just highlight what my main plans were as one of the things that always makes VMworld for me is talking to [...]
