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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: Enabling SSH with PowerCLI

January 29, 2016 • 3 min read • VMGuru

PowerShell Friday: Enabling SSH with PowerCLI

Even if you have all the graphic tools that you want to manage your virtual environment, sometimes you still want to use command line utilities for…
PowerShell Friday: Host Networking with PowerCLI

January 16, 2016 • 1 min read • VMGuru

PowerShell Friday: Host Networking with PowerCLI

It has been too long since there was a PowerShell Friday, so I thought I treat you on some titbits on checking your host network configuration. For…
PowerShell Friday: Check time configuration with PowerCLI

January 16, 2016 • 2 min read • VMGuru

PowerShell Friday: Check time configuration with PowerCLI

Time is important in your network. Almost all components rely on time in one form or another. Authentication for example relies on time stamps to…
PowerShell Friday: Managing HA with PowerCLI

January 15, 2016 • 2 min read • VMGuru

PowerShell Friday: Managing HA with PowerCLI

vSphere High Availability (HA) is one of those features that usually “just works” – until your cluster starts filling up or a host fails. Then it suddenly…
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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