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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: Connecting to vCenter

November 13, 2015 • 3 min read • Powershell

PowerShell Friday: Connecting to vCenter

For our first cmdlet on PowerShell Friday we are going to connect to vCenter. Before we can do anything useful on an ESXi host or vCenter we need to…
PowerShell Friday: quick start with PowerShell & PowerCLI

November 6, 2015 • 5 min read • Powershell

PowerShell Friday: quick start with PowerShell & PowerCLI

PowerShell was release on November 14, 2006 and is now (or should be?) one of the major components in an admins life. If you're just getting started…

May 9, 2011 • 2 min read • VMGuru

Connect ISO to VM the PowerCLI way

I recently bought a new server for my home lab, or at least, it was the start of my home lab. After my ESX host crashed two years ago I didn't took…

January 20, 2009 • 2 min read • Powershell

More PowerShell stuff

Last year I started to write a small program in Perl to document the virtual infrastructures we encounter at client locations. But since it's all…

January 14, 2009 • 1 min read • VMGuru

Browsing through your VC database like a drive

Yesterday I was browsing through the PowerShell scripts posted in the VI Toolkit community on the VMware site. One of the scripts I immediately…

January 6, 2009 • 1 min read • Powershell

Searching for a VM

One of the problems that most people have with virtualizing vCenter is that they don’t know where the vCenter VM is when there are problems. There’s…

December 24, 2008 • 1 min read • Powershell

Creating portgroups with PowerShell

I must be a workaholic. I was browsing my laptop for some movie and I came across a folder with all kinds of plugins for VirtualCenter. Things like…

November 10, 2008 • 2 min read • Powershell

VMware and PowerShell

I'm from the pre-WIMP era, like in pre Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointers. There wasn't anything like a graphical user interface. Even when they…
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