So one of the things that did happen whilst I was away, and that does bear repeating (as it’s not marketing fluff) is the Virtualization Eco Shell Initiative and their beta release landing (Thanks Virtua-al).
The goal of the Vizioncore Virtualization EcoShell is to provide a freeware desktop application for novice and expert IT administrators leveraging [...]
While glancing over at PoSH today (the tiny turtle) I was inspired to do a bit of thinking and talking about using PoSH. Specifically the VI Toolkit, it really wouldn’t be blog worth otherwise would it? What I got thinking on, and what someone on irc clued me into, was storing credentials.
Why store credentials?
Well, the [...]
From the VI Toolkit blog.
Can you spot the difference between this code:
1: foreach ($vm in (get-vm)) {
2: $disks = Get-HardDisk -vm $vm
3: foreach ($disk in $disks) {
4: Write-Host $disk.CapacityKB
5: }
6: }
And this code:
1: foreach ($vm in (get-vm)) {
2: [...]
What we have today, was brought up on #ESX on EfNet. They were looking for a script to generate output similar to what you get by clicking on “Hosts and Clusters”, selecting “File > Export > Export List…”
Like this:
What I came up with is not quite as pretty, but, it works, and you [...]
Maybe not ‘roids, but with a large helping of awesome, like, vDiagram, shown below. Click on over to virtu-al.net to see the rest.
If like me you couldn’t get to VMworld Europe 2009, this will be great news. They’ve made the VI Toolkit Lab available online. I’ll give this a run through later tonight.
I wasn’t there, but had a few other folks on Twitter point out to me that I got a mention during one of Carters presentations on automating VMware with PowerShell. Startled and amazed by this, I asked for some proof, and well… got it:
Woo! For those that didn’t know I’ll be doing a similar [...]
It’s 7PM, do you know where your VMware Tools are? Rather, do you know if all your VM’s have them installed and running?
Here is a one-liner to check that with PowerShell:
get-vm | where { $_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn" } | Get-VMGuest | where { $_.State -ne "Running" } | select vmName, State
What this does, is get [...]
When your network engineer, or other random folks are looking for some assistance in updating their vlan map Visio, or are generally trying to make their work yours (who doesn’t love to delegate) you can bash out this one liner against your VI, and instantly have a list of what VM is on what VLAN.
Yes [...]
Things break. They always do. Chaos is inevitable. So how do you get insight into some of the chaos that was occurring in your Virtual Center when disaster strikes? Turns out, the VI Client makes this quite easy.
After you get your Virtual Center service running again, connect using the VI Client. Once connected… well follow [...]
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