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Looking for PowerCLI skills?
No need to struggle anymore, just learn PowerCLI from the masters… Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf wrote a book which is available for pre-ordering right now. Most of you probably already know Luc and...
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Using the Out-GridView feature in PowerCLI
I wanted to output some data with PowerCLI using the Out-GridView cmdlet. Reason for using this cmdlet is that I needed to create an index for the .vmdk’s attached to the virtual machines and the...
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Connection problems with PowerCLI due to proxy settings
I was able to connect my PowerCLI instance without any problems to my vCenter, until all of a sudden I got the following error: Connect-VIServer : 8/12/2010 11:51:36 Connect-VIServer Could not connect...
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PowerCLI reference book
I blogged about this almost two months ago and just on Luc’s blog that the release date has been set and the cover art was released. I wanted to remind all of you the book that is one of a kind,...
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PowerCLI Reference Book, the review
I was checking Amazon during the weekend, just like I do everyday, to see if we had new reviews and how the book was selling until I noticed the reviews on the PowerCLI book. The reviews were mainly...
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HA / DRS Deepdive…. euuh I mean the audit
A couple of weeks ago Alan Renouf contacted me and asked me if it was okay to turn some of our best practices mentioned in the book into PowerCLI code. I thought about it for 0.00001 seconds and...
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Cheat sheet – Auto deploy
When I finished my article about auto deploy I figured it was really lengthy and wanted to write down the bare minimum which can be used as a quick cheat sheet when setting up auto-deploy. Of course...
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He is back… PowerCLI-MAN!
PowerCLI-MAN! Just make sure you catch him at VMworld Europe. He is most likely to appear at VSP1882 or VSP1883. These sessions are hosted by no one less then Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf, that by it...
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Scripts release for Storage vMotion / HA problem
Last week when the Storage vMotion / HA problem went public I asked both William Lam and Alan Renouf if they could write a script to detect the problem. I want to thank both of them for their quick...
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A host has failed, which VMs were impacted and restarted by HA?
Someone asked me a question a while back and I figured it was time to write it down… Or in this case to record a video. The vSphere Web Client is a powerful tool when it comes to finding events and...
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Check your VSAN disk controllers against the HCL with PowerCLI
Advertise here with BSAEvery now and then customers ask if it is possible to check if disk controllers are on the VSAN HCL (Or VMware Compatibility Guide (VCG) as it is actually called these days) for...
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PowerCLI for OSX is out!
Advertise here with BSAI am not a big PowerCLI user, primary reason being that I don’t even have a Windows box available. My main laptop is a macbook, and I don’t run Windows anywhere. Yesterday...
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