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 …
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Subscribe via RSS →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 …
Using Powershell to install PowerCLI
I am currently preparing a deployment package architecture for a full vSphere environment and one of the requests was to include PowerCLI in the installation script. I was surprised that I could not …
A Powershell Script to notify you on the vSphere 5.1 Release
vSphere 5.1 will most probably be released by the end of September 10th (that is 2 minutes from now in my timezone). Of course nothing is 100% certain but I will explain on what this assumption is …
Creating and Storing PowerShell Credentials
I actually do not understand why I have not put this in a blog post before, but it is about time - because I used it again today. Sometime you need to store a credential for a number of purposes, be …
Quick and Dirty PowerCLI to Repair a Disk Space Problem
I ran into a case of a datastore that ran out disk space (why that happened is a whole different story – don’t go there… really…) but because of a whole strange chain of event this …
Open-SDK–Opening the vSphere Management SDK
When writing scripts (I am a fan of PowerCLI of course) there is many a time when I need to get something out of the vSphere SDK so I can dig in and get the details that I am looking for. Of course …
Removing ^M Characters from Files in ESXi
As part of a build process for an ESXi server – on of the stages are to upload a valid SSL certificate to the ESXi server. When copying the certificate over to the host with pcsp for some reason they …
Set-UpdateToolsPolicy–For your VM’s
In continuation to William Lam’s post on how you can Automating VMware Tools Upgrade Policy and thanks to a comment left on the post – I wanted to perform the same functionality in PowerCLI. I present …
How to Set CDP on a vSwitch–the PowerCLI Way
We all know that you get CDP information in a number of ways (also PowerCLI), KB 1007069 provides a number of ways to do it. But how would you go about setting CDP on the vSwitch? That can be done on …