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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 [...]
London VMUG – Thu 26th Jan
Another year another VMUG, with some great subjects. If you haven’t already signed up to the London VMUG this coming Thursday (26th Jan) then make sure you do quick.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Migrating ESX to ESXi
Just released on the VMware Flings site is a fling which is designed to help when you make the move from ESX to ESXi, this tool will help you check hardware software and also that there are no lingering scripts or locally stored VMs etc. A great tool to download and run against your environment [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
