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PowerShell Summit–My recorded sessions
Recently I was lucky enough to attend the PowerShell Summit at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, this was an awesome event which was focused on PowerShell, it included not only people who are using PowerShell but also some of the people who wrote and designed it. There were a bunch of great sessions, all of which [...]
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 [...]
Updated VMware Knowledge Portal iPad App
Following my recent post showing the VMware Knowledge Portal iPad App, I just wanted to add a quick note to say firstly, If you do not have this then download it straight away. The information on here is very useful and includes videos as well as documentation for the vCloud Suite of products. Secondly, the [...]
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 [...]
VMware Mobile Knowledge Portal–iPad App
Do you find it hard to locate the latest VMware documentation ? Wouldn’t it be great if there was an iPad where the documentation and videos could be synchronized to your iPad enabling you to take it with you and learn on the train or wherever you need it. Want no more ! The VMware [...]
