PowerShell
Using PowerShell with Internet Explorer
PowerShell is a great language, I am often amazed at how far it can actually reach and what you can gather data, write data or use data from. Mainly I use PowerShell to manage my VMware environment but last night I broke from my comfort zone and took some time to see what I was [...]
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 [...]
vCloud Director 1.0 PowerShell Advanced Functions
Its no secret that VMware are working on vCloud Director (vCD) cmdlets, they recently surveyed the PowerShell and VMware community to make sure they had all the information needed to make this as much of a success as the vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets. But did you know you can already use PowerShell with vCD ? It [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
