Just a quick one about this issue that has been plaguing me for ages. Like many people in corporate world, the browser on our corporate build is configured to point to an “automatic configuration script”. But perhaps unlike many corporates, the script at the place I work is f_huge_. And for some reason, this has [...]
Posted in Coding | Also tagged PowerCLI |
From the VI Toolkit blog, Carter is running a poll over in the VI Toolkit community (login required in order to vote) to help VMware identify which products are in most need of PowerShellification. Of course, all VMware products are in need of PowerShell, but we understand they need to assign priorities to each of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged PowerCLI |
By admin | January 28, 2009
After having a look around the new VI Toolkit release today, and the accompanying videos and documentation, I am convinced Carter will be hailed as a new God by VI admins the world over. I mean, even Boche has stated this release may be enough to move his lazy ass into finally learning the ways [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Effenheimer, VI Toolkit |
By admin | January 28, 2009
The long awaited version 1.5 of the VI Toolkit has finally GA’ed, as Carter announced in the wee hours of this morning (2:30AM… I always wondered if Carter was a robot sent from the future, hopefuly not to destroy us all though). Anyway ’nuff said, I’m gonna go get it now!
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged VI Toolkit |
By admin | January 2, 2009
Finally got a chance to install the PowerShell 2.0 CTP3, and have a look at the Integrated Script Editor (ISE). It has all the basic functionality you would expect from a scripting editor, including a very handy tab completion of cmdlets. It didn’t pick up the VI Toolkit cmdlets straight away for me though, so [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged VI Toolkit |
By admin | October 7, 2008
A rather odd bug with VirtualCenter is the inability to deploy VM’s with a SCSI controller but without a disk… even creating a template from a VM that has a SCSI controller but no disk results in a template with no SCSI controller (you then have to convert it to a VM, re-add the SCSI [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Citrix, SDK, VirtualCenter |
By admin | September 24, 2008
Reconfiguring VM’s via the API is something I’ve had to dabble in lately, due to some…. err.. “interesting” behaviour with deploying VM’s from templates. Such as the inability to deploy a VM from a template that has a SCSI controller but no disk – useful if using LUN based snapshots, where the .vmdk already exists [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged SDK, VMware |
