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1. Dealing with the inevitable events in life – reporting problems with PowerCLI - There are certain events in life that we all strive to avoid, yet they seem practically inevitable. Facing problems, when using some software product is one of those. And using PowerCLI and vSphere makes no exception. Occasionally, you will stumble...
2. Error handling with PowerCLI 4.1 - Complex scripts need to handle errors and resolve common error scenarios without user interaction. A step in that direction is exposing the entire specter of vCenter server error hierarchy along with PowerCLI specific exceptions (for example when validating input parameters)....
3. Deploying a VM with Static IP in 3 Steps - VM customization is a very powerful feature that can make miracles during the deployment process. Since vSphere PowerCLI 4.0 U1, you can use cmdlets to modify a number of network settings of the newly created virtual machines. Here is how...
4. Customizing Guest Cmdlets - PowerCLI has several cmdlets that work inside the guest of a VM: Guest network interface cmdlets: Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface, Set-VMGuestNetworkInterface Guest route cmdlets: Get-VMGuestRoute, Set-VMGuestRoute, New-VMGuestRoute, Remove-VMGuestRoute Resizing of guest disk partitions: Set-HardDisk These cmdlets are script-based and this makes them user-customizable....
5. Output type changes in PowerCLI 4.1 - In PowerCLI 4.1 we changed the namespaces in which output types live. This was done to improve the internal structure and enable other VMware teams to write cmdlets for the products they develop. While the types remain the same (save...
6. ManagedObjectReference Made Easier - PowerCLI 4.1 introduces easier way to initialize ManagedObjectRefernce (MoRef) instances which are necessary while playing with the Get-View cmdlet. Till now there were several ways to get MoRefs. The most popular one is to get the view object and to...
7. vDS in PowerCLI 4.1 - At last vDS features are here with the new PowerCLI. The vSphere PowerCLI 4.1 release is the first touch of PowerCLI with vNetwork distributed switches, so please don’t expect to find fully supported vDS functionality in it. Still as you...
8. PowerCLI 4.1 is out - Tonight we released PowerCLI 4.1 Feature Highlights: Easier to customize and extend PowerCLI, especially for reporting Output objects can be customized by adding extra properties Better readability and less typing in scripts based on Get-View. Each output object has its...
9. Find out how many VMs you’re creating a month with this simple script. - If you haven’t seen it, Alan Renouf has made a great script called “Who created that VM?” that populates custom variables to tell you who created a VM and when they did it. I was showing this to a user...
10. Now Available: PowerCLI cmdlets for vCenter Update Manager! - I’m happy to announce that we’ve released PowerCLI cmdlets for Update Manager, a.k.a. VUM, that are compatible with PowerCLI 4.0 U1. This new PowerShell snapin provides 13 cmdlets as follows: Cmdlet Name Cmdlet Description Attach-Baseline Attaches baselines to the specified...