If you are going to be using Orchestrator… and you should be, you are going to want to pull down and install the VIX plugin from here. Why? I hope you are strapped into your seat, and that seat is bolted to the floor because the awesome fixing to drop will hit with a force
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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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No really, it is seriously awesome. Eric Sloof from NTPRO.nl has published a video that runs you through a little utility he wrote called “vmFilemanager”, then further shows you how to create such a utility using the free edition of Visual Basic 2008. Online Training – Automating vSphere with the VIX API from Eric Sloof
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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 domain\user -p
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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! The original
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