The AWS PowerShell Docker Container
I cannot believe it is over 3 years since I created the openstack-git-env container. At the time I was really frustrated at how hard it was to get started with setting up an environment to start …
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Subscribe via RSS →PowerShell Profile Tricks for Better VMware Management
My new post on some PowerShell Profile tricks for VMware has been published on the Petri IT knowledgebase. As an IT pro, we rely on scripts to manage our VMware environment, which helps us be more …
Interesting Tidbit in PowerCLI Release Notes
With last week’s release - there was also an updated version on PowerCLI that was released as well. VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 Release 1 Release Notes I noticed something quite strange …
Change Outlook Meetings En Masse
I had my mailbox migrated to a new domain today. One of the side effects of this was that for silly reason, a large number of my meetings now had a prefix of Copy: added to the subject of the meeting. …
vCenter Automated Install
So how long does it take you to install vCenter, not using the VCSA, but the Windows package? How many manual steps does it require you to perform? Have you actually ever counted? It is quite a lot. …
Configuring SSH Equivalence for Oracle RAC
SSH Equivalence is one of the pre-requisites needed for an Oracle RAC installation. There are a number of posts on how to do this like here or here, and Oracle even have been so kind as to provide a …
Another PowerShell vExpert.me URL Shortner
Building on Jonathan Medd’s excellent idea of Using PowerShell to access the vExpert.me URL Shortener, I decided to improve it a bit more. Here is the completed script. <# .SYNOPSIS Will create a …
PowerCLI Does not officially support Powershell v3
Just a heads up. According to the Release Notes PowerCLI is not supported Does this mean that it will not work – No of course not! From what I have tested it works almost flawlessly – but there are …
Invoke-VMScript Failed - and how I was Baffled.
Luc Dekens wrote a great post a while back Will Invoke-VMScript work? about the prerequisites needed in order to get Invoke-VMscript to work. Stop for a minute and go and read his post. Glad to have …
Creating an EagerZeroedThick disk with PowerCLI
Hey… - that is not possible – I hear you say – well in principle you are right. Up until today… By mistake of course – I found that there was a change made to the 5.1 release of PowerCLI – but …