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PowerShell Friday: Starting VMs

November 20, 2015 • 2 min read • Powershell

PowerShell Friday: Starting VMs

With PowerCLI you can manage and automate your VMware infrastructure from the command line. After you connect to vCenter you can do all kinds of…
PowerShell Friday: stopping VMs

November 27, 2015 • 2 min read • Powershell

PowerShell Friday: stopping VMs

This weeks PowerShell Friday is about stopping VMs with PowerCLI. If you want to gracefully shutdown your VM, which I think you will do most of the…
PowerShell Friday: Snapshots

December 4, 2015 • 3 min read • Powershell

PowerShell Friday: Snapshots

Virtual machine snapshots are useful for sysadmins, since they preserve the state of a virtual machine’s virtual disk and, optionally, virtual…
PowerShell Friday: Adding CPU's with PowerCLI

December 11, 2015 • 2 min read • Powershell

PowerShell Friday: Adding CPU’s with PowerCLI

Sometimes you need to add CPUs to your virtual machines. Adding CPU's is easy on a virtual machine. Of course you can do this from the vSphere…
PowerShell Friday: Adding Memory with PowerCLI

December 18, 2015 • 2 min read • VMGuru

PowerShell Friday: Adding Memory with PowerCLI

Just before the holidays we've got a small PowerCLI onliner for you. Nothing fancy, but still useful. There are times that your virtual machine…
PowerShell Friday: Christmas Special

December 24, 2015 • 5 min read • VMGuru

PowerShell Friday: Christmas Special

Tomorrow is Christmas, so this post is a day early, but I wanted to give you something you can play with when you're done eating, drinking and getting…

December 26, 2015 • 2 min read • Website

Finally, another post

Finally, there’s another post from me. It took a while. And to be honest, I wasn’t really planning on writing on There is more than IT, but since I…
PowerShell Friday: Setting Reservations with PowerCLI

January 8, 2016 • 2 min read • VMGuru

PowerShell Friday: Setting Reservations with PowerCLI

When configuring your virtual machines sometimes you want to set reservations. Like I said in the article about adding memory: You can go into the…
PowerShell Friday: Copying files with Copy-VMGuestFile

January 15, 2016 • 3 min read • VMGuru

PowerShell Friday: Copying files with Copy-VMGuestFile

Every now and then you can run into the situation that you have a file wich needs to be distributed to any number of virtual machines. Now you could logon…
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