Per Mr Karlson’s site: On Wednesday April 11th, Jake Robinson (@jakerobinson) will present PowerCLI 201 on the vBrownbag, and Josh Atwell (@josh_atwell, AKA “vGinger Admin Extraordinaire“) will be hosting. If you can’t attend this Wednesday at 7PM CDT, make sure to download the podcast as it should be great. Register today! 
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Yes! You can! I’m not talking about using vCO to call PowerCLI scripts. As well, that’s been covered before. What I’m talking about is using PowerCLI against VMware Onyx to get vCO JavaScript (Jeorg Lew’s post on it here). First, get Onyx. I’ll wait… Have it? Excellent. Now fire it up & change the output
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For those that couldn’t make it to the live show, be heartened to know that what we did was a live version of this BrownBag. If that’s not enough… brace yourself for some really awesome stuff, right here: The Slides They’re not much to look at because well, it was a demo heavy session. That
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Will you be at VMworld? I will! In fact, Glenn Sizemore and I will be rocking and rolling for a Wednesday PowerCLI 101 session. If you’re thinking about PowerShell, PowerCLI or just beginning to automate your environment, we’ll take you over some of the most basic basics. There are actually a number of really good
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No story this time around, just some HBA rescanning love: PowerCLI Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba vCenter Orchestrator In the vCO Client, open “Workflows” & Drill down to “Library > vCenter > Datacenter”: Right click, “Start workflow…”: Finally: “Submit” Summary Questions? Comments? Follow me on Twitter here or drop a line in the comments.
First a huge thanks to Glenn & the other authors of the PowerCLI Reference. If you don’t have a copy… you are doing yourself a disservice. Another thanks to those who attended live and continue to make these valuable for everyone. The Video ProfessionalVMware BrownBag – PowerCLI 101 w/ Glenn Sizemore from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.
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You know those guys? The ones who wrote that book? No? Well, the book is the VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference and this weeks guest is none other than Glenn Sizemore, one of the authors of said volume. PowerCLI 101 This BrownBag we’re going to spend some time talking to Glenn about the book and then
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This get’s to be the third post in the “vSphere Automation 101” series or so. Not sure I want to call it a series, as that denotes some kind of commitment, and well, as we’ve discussed in prior posts, I’m lazy. Before we get too deep, here are links to the first and second parts
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Not sure how to write this without sounding the gushing Fanboi, but I’ll give it a shot… Hal Rottenberg, in combination with TrainSignal have released “VMware vSphere PowerCLI Training”. To give you an idea as to how much awesome is packed in there… Hal is the author of the first Managing VMware with PowerShell books
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A few things brought this post together. First is that Glen Sizemore of Get-Admin and I have co-submitted a “vSphere Automation 101 – PowerCLI” session to the VMworld 2011 CFP. We thought it’d be an excellent idea to share some of that content before hand. The second, and just as important, is that I’m Lazy
-> Continue reading Some PowerCLI 101 – Connecting to Multiple vCenters
We had a decent, if quick show last night, during with we covered VMRun/VIX, PowerCLI, and a few other things. Here are the show notes: Video: ProfessionalVMware VCAP-DCA BrownBag – Scripting & Automation from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Flash Cards: Here they are… only 5 this time: http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/1599665 Objectives: Objective 8.1 PowerCLI Notes: Getting started with
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This post was created in response to an entry in the “Blogger Block” contest. The idea for the post came from Chad King, who now has a coffee cup in route. Thanks! NetApp DataONTAP Cmdlets NetApp has released a PowerCLI snap-in to manage their devices! It is important to know: Licensing The Data ONTAP PowerShell
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OK, so every environment has “That Guy”… if you don’t know what I’m on about, take a look at what floated past on Twitter this evening from @vSeanClark: RT @techmute: Some people really make me wish vSphere had the option "take a snapshot when this guy logs in as an admin" <- startup idea? Well…
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Sean’s vFail.net came to my attention because of some trackbacks on my VCAP-DCA posts. However, in addition to VCAP Study guides (which are quite good), he’s covered PowerCLI (another of my favorite areas) and some other great topics. If you aren’t already, add this series of virtual failures to your RSS reader or bookmarks and
-> Continue reading New Blog You Should be Following: vFail.net
Today I found myself needing to find all hosts that were in a state other than connected within a datacenter. It’s only a one-liner and I’m sure you can (or have) found it elsewhere, but here it is again for reference: Get-Datacenter -Name "ProfessionalVMware" | Get-VMHost | Where { $_.State -ne "Connected" } | Select
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This post actually has it’s roots in a practical and useful change in VMware’s “delete all” snapshot functionality. For the details, I strongly suggest you go off to Duncan’s page and read all about it. It was that post that in turn generated quite a lot of twitter buzz around some additional features, or naming
-> Continue reading Roll-Dice – PowerCLI & Fun with VMware Snapshots
For those of you who don’t have a copy of Hal’s PowerCLI book (if you don’t, you should)… and for those that do, but would like a supplemental reference for the VMware PowerCLI cmdlets, check VMware’s PowerCLI cmdlet reference. Have already used it to good ends this week. Example: New-VM added a DiskStorageFormat parameter… completely
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In trying to get used to ESXi and it’s console-less nature I’ve been forcing myself to use the vCLI or PowerCLI to do things. Along the way I’ve learned that the vCLI is generally really well though out, if different. Here is an example of this: Setting up a vNetwork Standard Switch (vSwitch) using PowerCLI
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Today’s post is brought to us by Chris, a member of the VMware community who wields some powerful Louisianan VooDoo magic (and PowerCLI). Chris uses this to show us how to take a csv file in, and use it to attach a VM to a dVS switch as well as adding the VMXNET3 nic to
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While all of PowerCLI is remarkable in both it’s power and ease of use, there are some cmdlets that do not get as much airtime as they deserve. One of those, is Invoke-VMScript. From Get-Help InvokeVMScript NAME Invoke-VMScript SYNOPSIS Executes the specified PowerShell script in the guest OS of each of the specified
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