I have been spending a lot of time working on Powershell scripts. Specifically, I have been re-writing many VB scripts and processes into more efficient powershell versions. In my last post I mentioned that I planed to share how I made a task that took 8 hours to execute run…
I have been working on various scripts that populate information into a SQL table. The other day I was attempting to see how long some of these tables took to populate. I could have updated the PowerShell script to include some Measure-Command information, but then I’d have to re-execute my…
I mentioned in a previous post (VMware View inside vCloud Director) that we had to make a last minute change to the lab content on the fly. This change was to Exercise 11 that covers the Get-ESXCli cmdlet. I should mention that this is a change to ESXi — if…
Earlier this month I had the privilege of helping out with a PowerCLI hands on lab at the Greater Cincinnati VMUG regional event. The content of this GCVMUG PowerCLI 5.0 lab is now available online: GCVMUG PowerCLI 5.0 Lab A special thanks goes to the GCVMUG, Jake Robinson, Ryan Birk,…
I was looking for a way to enable “Check and upgrade Tools during power cycling” for more than one VM at a time, but without enabling for all VM’s in the cluster. In this case our naming convention allowed for the quick and simple use of wildcards to make selections.…