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Using VIX to Defrag Windows Guests

Why? Because it’s awesome, that’s why. Below is an example, complete with syntax and screenshots on how to defragment a windows guest using VMware’s VIX.
Here is what it looked like before:

Here is the command used from the host where VIX is installed:
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VIX>vmrun -T esx -h https://vCenter.server.com/sdk – u [...]

VMware VIX, now with PowerShell

This is almost as good as a Peanut butter sandwich with Marshmallow cream. Or at least as good as the four shot “Venti’” mocha I just finished. It seems there is now some third part goodness from the VIX community, that will enable you to use it (VIX That is) with PowerShell. WOOT!
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VIXated with VMware’s VIX

Since my first few posts on this got a bit of attention, I thought I’d add some more to this. In today’s post we’ll cover adding or deleting a route, and setting a default route. I’ve got requests for others that will keep the next few weeks worth of VIX posts busy.
We’ll cover this against [...]

Even More VIX Awesomeness

I will really have to install this soon to give a few examples as to how it all works. Until then, here are some examples from VMware’s VIX Blog team.
Use case: Restarting a service on Windows.
This one’s really easy so I’ll just show it without explanation.
    Example 3: Restart a service on Windows. [...]

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 [...]

VMware VIX – Changing IP’s of a Guest VM

As a demonstration of the power of VIX, I’ve chosen to show you how to change IP addresses of a Windows VM. You may want to buckle up for this.
First, grab the VIX API installable from VMware’s site. In this case we’ll be using the Windows version (because that is the VM I happen to [...]

VMware VIX – More API’s

So this will need further investigation on my part. On the surface it looks really cool:
“The VIX API allows development of scripts and programs to automate operations in guest virtual machines.”
Read that again. Now process. Automate operations IN the guest VM. Go here for the release notes.