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Sunday Turtle Blogging!

I have it on good word that as of Wednesday last week the VMware turtles have gone on winter vacation to their condo in the Amazon Rain Forest. They’ll be back after the cold snap ends.

Today is the Day…

That I go on Vacation! I’ll be leaving in about 2 hours to sunny Boca Raton, Florida to spend the next two weeks with family and friends for the holidays. The blog volume will likely slow "WAY” down, but I believe I’m leaving you in the hands of some very capable guest posters: Pancil, Darky, [...]

1 Day Left – The Most Awesome PowerShell One-Liner in the History of PowerShell One-Liners!

get-datacenter MyVC | get-vm | Get-NetworkAdapter | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*1"} | Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName NotThatNetwork -Confirm:$false
So, say you provision all of your VM’s on one host, with one set of networks, that is completely removed from the remainder of your infrastructure. You then Cold-Migrate the new VM’s to their new homes. You now need [...]

Tomorrow, Tomorrow…. 1 Day Left, Who Knows What Happens Tomorrow?

Do you? I do!

2 Days Left? – No more guesses?

Really, I assure you, it will be very anticlimactic.

3 Days… 3 Ways To Setup a vSwitch

What happens in 3 days? You know, don’t you? Well, I’m sure you do. That said, here are 3 ways to configure a vSwitch. (Yes there are more ways than this, but alas… one has to stick with the theme.).
Using the Virtual Infrastructure Client:

 
Using The VI Toolkit (PowerShell)
Before:

PowerShell:
PS [...]

4 Days – 4 Uses for VMware VIX (vmrun)

Know what’s coming yet? No? Here are some wonderful VMware VIX things you can do while you think on it.

Install VMware Tools
Set IP
Snapshots
Reboot VM

These are all on one line. Note, the first two work, the second two at the time of this writing report “Error: Unknown error” (ESX in VIX 1.6.2 [...]

5 Days – 5 PowerShell One-Liners You Can’t Live Without

5 Days now… Till? Guessed yet? If not, here are 5 PowerShell one-liner’s you cant live without.

get-vm | get-snapshot | where { $_.Created -le (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)}
get-vm | get-view | %{ $_.Config } | select Name,Uuid
get-vm | Get-CDDrive | Set-CDDrive -Connected:$false -Confirm:$false
get-template MyTemplate | new-vm -vmhost esxserver01 -name MyVM -OSCustomizationSpec MySpec
get-vmhost –name servername | set-vmhost –state maintenance

What [...]

6 Days left – 6 Things to Love about VMware/Virtualization

Instead of guessing today, list the 6 things you love most about VMware/Virtualization.
Here’s mine:

vMotion
Storage vMotion
Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
VI Toolkit for Windows (PowerShell)
Snapshots
Clone VMs (Live)

What are yours? Tell me in the comments.

7 Days Left… Till?

  Photo by JoaquinFuentes
Some of you will be disappointed to find out, that at the end of this, there will be only something so very mundane that you will question why I’m doing this, and my sanity!
Again, post all your guesses in the comments.

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