Why vEcoShell or PowerGUI makes sense
A little while back I started a PowerPack which could be used in either PowerGUI or vEcoShell – the application formerly known as “The Virtualisation EcoShell or VESI, my PowerPack was a collection of...
View ArticleGoodbye Virtu-Al – Hello Community
This may not be news to some of you as I have mentioned it at both the Dutch VMUG and the London VMUG but anyway, if you were not lucky enough to make it to these because you live in a far away place...
View ArticleLondon VMUG – Thu 15 July – Lets get interactive !
I have been given my normal resident slot at the London VMUG this Thursday, 15th July. At the last VMUG I showed how vEcoShell could be used to add the graphical interface back onto our PowerCLI...
View ArticleSimple PowerShell selection box
A few times in PowerGUI or generally I have needed the user to select a single entity so that I can use this entity further in the code to narrow down the output, with this in mind i created a quick...
View ArticleSay goodbye to VESI
One of the most frequent questions I get asked at user groups or by people who know I am responsible for the community PowerPack is which product should they use, normally the question is PowerGUI or...
View ArticleImage Builder and Auto Deploy Powerpack
Recently with vSphere 5 VMware enabled you to deploy the ESXi image via PXE boot to your hosts, to do this you need some PowerCLI knowledge. Now just because I find PowerCLI easy to use and a great...
View ArticleVMworld PowerCLI Group Discussion–Part 2–Resources
Following Part 1 of these posts where we discussed getting started in PowerCLI I now give you Part 2 of the note taking by Nigel Boulton at VMworld in the PowerCLI Group Discussion. In this part of the...
View ArticleVMworld PowerCLI Group Discussion–Part 3–Launching and Using
Following on from the previous posts in this series, this post will take us through the group discussion held at VMworld this year and expand on the items noted during the session. This post will...
View ArticleRemotely Managing VMware vSphere through your mobile device
Remember the VMware Community PowerPack for PowerGUI? With it we were able to manage our VMware environment through a MMC style GUI placed on top of PowerCLI Scripts, this gave us the benefit of custom...
View ArticleDeploying Log Insight with PowerCLI 5.8 R1 new features
PowerCLI 5.8 R1 was recently released and of the great new features included was the ability to now set the OVF/OVA properties of a VM or vAPP stored in an Open Virtualization format. The new cmdlet...
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