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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
Update and re-composure of View Pools
I was recently asked if it was possible to automate the update of a View Pool every week after the updates had been applied to the virtual machines using Windows Update services, the process is quite straight forward. This person needed to snapshot a VM after the updates were completed and then use this snapshot [...]
Using the View PowerCLI cmdlets from another machine
As of version 4.6 VMware View came with some PowerCLI Cmdlets, I wrote a post about these recently after they were released explaining why this was both a good and a bad thing. I have seen a couple of posts since then using View PowerCLI : Gabe’s script to automatically retrieve set the Dynamically assigned [...]
VMware View 4.5 – More PowerShell Cmdlets
Its probably not news to you that VMware have now released View 4.5, just one of the many cool announcements made at VMworld 2010 – San Francisco. Did you know however that View now has some PowerShell cmdlets ? – Yeah that’s right. The Good I think its great that VMware are putting so much [...]
