Posts tagged "powershell"

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NetApp PowerShell Toolkit, DataONTAP 1.5 released

Aug 4, 2011

NetApp has updated it's Powershell Toolkit which it calls DataONTAP to version 1.5 (I think PowerONTAP would be a much better name!). You will need a Netapp NOW account which is available to customers and partners to download the toolkit. ( There are 27 new cmdlets taking the total up to a massive 528 cmdlets with nearly all possible API's now covered. In the useful web help files you can look...

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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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Want to see HP Flex-10 and ESX(i) at VMWorld? Vote for session 3005!

May 10, 2011

( is coming up and one of the great things about the conference is independent community members can also offer to present on any topic of interest. I've put forward a presentation proposal Designing and Building a Simple and Scalable Virtual Infrastructure with HP Flex-10 and ESX(i) which is the ONLY HP Flex-10 related presentation proposal. As there are many more presentation proposals than a...

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Installing HP Agents on ESX with PowerCLI and Putty/Plink

Mar 7, 2011

Anyone who needs to build multiple ESX(i) hosts naturally looks to scripting to automate the process. Scripting allows for faster deployment once you have developed the script but equally important reduces human error. It's far to easy to mistype a port group name, vlan number or IP address. Scripting removes this element of humen error and allows you to build ESX(i) hosts preditably and quickl...

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Scripting Flex-10 ESX design with PowerCLI

Feb 18, 2011

My ( posts detail the configuration steps required to deploy ESX with Flex-10. There's a lot of clicking around in the vSphere client that can be automated with PowerCLI. The steps below will set up the ESX networking component as described in the design posts so can be incorporated into the rest of your PowerCLI build process. The information text and colours are optional but it does make it e...

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NetApp DataONTAP 1.3 released

Feb 8, 2011

NetApp's Powershell Toolkit has been updated to 1.3. ( You can get more information from ( Microsoft has created a fantastic administration environment with Powershell, the more companies that create PowerShell modules the better so good work NetApp, looking forward to some more!

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Getting Nic firmware versions with PowerCLI

Jan 27, 2011

Sometimes you need to delve into the innards of ESX to get information out that just isn't available through the VMware SDK and so not directly available to PowerCLI. If you've been doing any work recently with HP Flex-10 and its firmware requirements, you may need to find out the network card firmware version which is only available from within the ESX console by typing ethtool -i vmnic0 So, P...

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Updating Broadcom bnx2x Nic Drivers with PowerCLI

Nov 15, 2010

Now that a new bnx2x driver has been released as detailed in my ( you will obviously need to deploy it and add it as part of your hopefully scripted build. I wish VMware Update Manager would be able to apply these driver updates so we can have a single depoyment mechanism but this doesn't seem to be the case yet. We live in hope! So, without Update Manager, I always prefer PowerCLI rather than...

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Output Powershell console to a file using Transcript

Sep 22, 2010

Sometimes it's the simple things that really make a difference. Often when writing any script you have to decide whether to output stuff to the screen or to a file. What if you need to do both? Normally you create additional scripting lines or a function to output the response from a cmdlet to a log file which you can review later. Well I stumbled by accident across a very simple way to avoid t...

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Snapshot information from PowerCLI

Sep 6, 2010

Here are some PowerCLI single line scripts for getting different snapshot information:

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