Posts tagged "powershell"

31 posts

HP refreshes server management with HP OneView

Sep 30, 2013

HP has announced a new product to manage HP BladeSystem and ProLiant G7/Gen 8 infrastructure called ( which is due to be released in October. HP thinks the existing way of deploying and managing servers is built on models from 20 years ago and is in need of an update. This is certainly true particularly with HP servers despite HP having a number of tools such as HP Systems Insight Manager (HP S...

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NetApp PowerShell Toolkit, DataONTAP 3 released with new Performance Monitoring and full ONTAP 8.2 API Support

Aug 9, 2013

NetApp has updated its ( Two major features have been added: A new cmdlet Invoke-NcSysstat which is like Invoke-NaSysstat and allows you to monitor cluster system performance stats for: System, FCP, NFSv3, NFSv4, CIFS, iSCSI, Volume, Ifnet, LUN, and Disk. Invoke-NcSysstat works in both the cluster and Vserver context for Data ONTAP 8.2 and up. For Data ONTAP versions previous to 8.2, Invoke-Nc...

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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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NetApp PowerShell Toolkit, DataONTAP 2 released supporting ONTAP 8.1 Cluster Mode & more vdisk conversions

May 2, 2012

It seems like only ( that NetApp updated it’s ( to version 1.7. Well, today, now we have ( The major features include: New cmdlets, not including the Cluster-Mode set: New Cluster-Mode cmdlets: NetApp has updated its "( with the new 2.0 features Have a look at the PPT, ( for installation instructions.

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NetApp PowerShell Toolkit, DataONTAP 1.7 released with VHD/VMDK file conversion and VHD alignment

Feb 2, 2012

NetApp has today updated it’s ( to version 1.7. I've said it ( but a rebranding to PowerONTAP would be a much cooler! The major features include: VHD/VMDK file conversion. You can use _ConvertTo-NaVhd_ and _ConvertTo-NaVmdk_ to use NetApp FlexClone to convert between VHD files used on Hyper-V and XenServer and VMDK files on VMware. That could make any hypervisor migrations so much easier. VHD par...

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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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