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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: 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…
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…
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