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PowerShell Friday: ExtensionData

February 26, 2016 • 2 min read • VMGuru

PowerShell Friday: ExtensionData

Did you know that VMware stores a lot of information about your virtual machines? And that you can retrieve all that data with PowerCLI? When you…

February 27, 2016 • 2 min read • Website

Your Kickstarter pledges in a Jekyll site

For our family website I wanted to create a page that contained all my pledges on Kickstarter. Since I couldn’t find the right plugin for Jekyll I created…
PowerShell Friday: Retrieving IP addresses for VMs

April 8, 2016 • 2 min read • VMGuru

PowerShell Friday: Retrieving IP addresses for VMs

As I explained in the article about ExtensionData each VM object has a lot of information stored. If you want to know the IP addresses of a…
PowerShell Friday: Backup, source control, versioning

April 21, 2016 • 3 min read • VMGuru

PowerShell Friday: Backup, source control, versioning

You finally created that script that saves you a lot of time. Suddenly it doesn't work anymore. Now the panic slowly kicks in. Where did you put…
PowerShell Friday: Load PowerCLI from your own script

April 22, 2016 • 3 min read • VMGuru

PowerShell Friday: Load PowerCLI from your own script

When you want to start your PowerCLI scripts or just use the cmdlets for VMware, you can start VMware vSphere PowerCLI from your start menu. From…

December 29, 2016 • 5 min read • IT

MySQL database replication

For our home I wanted to create a good and stable DNS infrastructure. I could’ve gone with the default router-based DNS service, but I wanted something…
Jeeves - your own VMGuru

February 15, 2017 • 4 min read • VMGuru

Jeeves - your own VMGuru

Everyone is talking about it: Chatbots are going to be the next bing thing. If you don't believe me, check out the Forbes article on why chatbots…
Day #1 – The start of my 100 days of blogging

June 25, 2017 • 2 min read • 100 Dagen

Day #1 – The start of my 100 days of blogging

There are various techniques to get people to your site and blog, such as advertising and linking on link pages, but the most important thing is regular…
A new blog every day... so not

June 28, 2017 • 2 min read • 100 Dagen

A new blog every day… so not

Well, that didn't go exactly as planned. The deadline for day 2 has already passed, even worse, day 3 has already passed. I finally decided to start…
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