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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…
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: 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: 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…
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…
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: 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: 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: 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…
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