How to list all the PowerCLI ESXCLI commands
Last week there was a question in the VMware VMTN Communities VMware vSphere PowerCLI forum from Papires who asked how you can convert the ESXCLI command ‘esxcli storage vmfs snapshot mount -l...
View ArticlePowerShell 3.0 is available for download
Since September 4th 2012 is PowerShell 3.0 available for download. PowerShell 3.0 is included in the Windows Management Framework 3.0 that contains also WMI and WinRM. It can be installed on Windows 7...
View Article1st Dutch PowerShell User Group (DuPSUG) meeting
Friday, November 23, 2012 the first Dutch PowerShell User group (DuPSUG) meeting will be held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Speakers are: Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson, PowerShell MVP Richard...
View ArticleUse PowerCLI to consolidate snapshots in vSphere 5
In vSphere 5 a virtual machine can have a “Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed” Configuration Issue warning in the Summary tab. How can you use PowerCLI to see which virtual machines have...
View ArticleGet VMware vCenter Scheduled Tasks with PowerCLI
VMware vSphere PowerCLI is missing cmdlets to work with VMware vCenter Scheduled Tasks. In a series of blog posts I will show you some PowerShell advanced functions that you can use to work with...
View ArticlePowerCLI Get-VICommand function error repaired
On my PC (Windows 8 Pro, Windows PowerShell 3 and VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2) there is a very annoying problem with the Get-VICommand function. If I use this function without specifying the...
View ArticleUpgrading your VMFS datastores with PowerCLI
With the release of VMware vSphere 5.0 a new version of the VMFS datastores was released also: VMFS-5. This new VMFS-5 version has a lot of advantages over the old VMFS-3 version (see for information...
View ArticleNew VMware fling: Onyx for the Web Client
VMware Onyx has been a very popular fling for many years. You can use Onyx to create PowerCLI code by performing actions in the VMware vSphere client. The created PowerCLI code does exactly what you...
View ArticleRunning PowerShell in a Docker container on VMware Photon OS
A few days ago Microsoft provided PowerShell as an open source project on GitHub, available on Windows, Linux and macOS! The first open source release is PowerShell 6.0 Alpha. In this blog post, I will...
View ArticleNew book – Learning PowerCLI – Second Edition
Today, my new book Learning PowerCLI – Second Edition was published by Packt. Learning PowerCLI, Second Edition will learn you to leverage the power of PowerCLI to automate your VMware vSphere...
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