Posts tagged "powercli"

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VMware releases PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2

Feb 12, 2013

VMware has released ( which is the latest update to its PowerShell interface which includes support for Virtual Distributed Switches, vCloud Director 5.1 and PowerShell 3. Virtual Distributed Switches This new release now includes 14 new cmdlets to manage VMware Virtual Distributed Switches, something people have been waiting eagerly for: There are also enhancements to existing cmdlets such as...

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NetApp releases its Virtual Storage Console (VSC) PowerShell Toolkit 1.0

Dec 5, 2012

NetApp has extended its PowerShell management to its virtual center plug-in, the Virtual Storage Console. The toolkit can be downladed from ( NetApp currently has a PowerShell toolkit called ( for managing its controllers but this new toolkit has been developed to manage the VSC directly. As this is a 1.0 release not all VSC functionality is available. Currently it can do the Provisioning and Clo...

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Get the fantastic VMware reference posters

Sep 17, 2012

Unless you are a photographic memory super VCDX you probably don't have every single ESXi command line, PowerCLI Cmdlet or vCloud Networking construct available in memory. Luckily for the rest of us normal people, VMware has released some fantastic posters detailing these topics in an easy to grab format which you can download for your pleasure. They are large format .PDF posters so you can pri...

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VMware PowerCLI 5.01 released adding vCloud Director Automation

Jan 10, 2012

VMware has released what at first looks like a minor update to their PowerShell snapin, ( Although just a .01 release which brings the usual changes and bug fixes which are listed ( the big news is that VMware has added a whole bunch of cmdlets for managing vCloud Director. A whole new snapin has been created called VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud and this initial release focuses more on the report...

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SRM for free with PowerCLI & DataONTAP– Part 2: iSCSI

Sep 14, 2011

My updated ( talked about implementing part of the functionality of SRM in Powershell using PowerCLI and NetApp's DataONTAP for NFS datastores. This post is an update to my ( in which I had only looked at the VMware side of the automation and so it’s time for an update to include the important part of handling the underlying storage. I’m going to use NetApp storage as an example but any storage...

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What's new in VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.0

Aug 25, 2011

Today's the day that vSphere 5 has officially been released. There are going to be a million other blog posts talking at length about the full release of vCenter, ESXi, new licensing etc. so I'll avoid repeating what everyone else is saying. However, as part of the vSphere 5 release, ( has also been released and since the vSphere 5 announcement, I haven't noticed anything written as yet about...

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Adding .VMX Files to vCenter Inventory with PowerCLI gets even easier

Aug 11, 2011

Update: I've since found out that ( actually found out about this before me and posted something on the ( which I missed. Well found Matt. A fairly common request is to be able to register existing VMs in a datastore in the vCenter inventory. This can be a life saver if you have had storage issues and have had to present a backup copy of a datastore which has a different name and need to add th...

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Thinking, Building and Scripting Globally - a London VMUG presentation.

Jul 14, 2011

I have the privilege today of presenting at the ( My presentation is split into two parts, first of all looking at why setting standards, creating processes and adding automation is now more important than ever as we work towards building an infrastructure for cloud computing. I go through how "cloud thinking" is not just about the cloud being used to solve an IT problem but rather the cloud be...

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