By admin | February 9, 2009
Phew, Volume 1 and Volume 2 down, lets wrap this monster up. See, I told you I wasn’t going to leave you hanging for weeks to nail through all this. So, picking up right from where we left off. We need to perform a configuration operation on an ESX host. Of the available properties we’re [...]
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By admin | February 9, 2009
Thought I was going to drag this out in some scandalous attempt to keep the viewers coming back week after week? Actually, wish I had thought of that before just now. Anyways, let’s continue. If you haven’t read Volume 1 in the series, go do so now. I’ll wait for you. So continuing on, let’s [...]
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By admin | February 9, 2009
OK, this one has been a looooooooooong time coming. I’ve been meaning to take a shot at conveying the advanced features of the VI SDK as applied to PowerShell for quite some time now. When Carter corrected me some months ago with regards to what is and isn’t possible with PowerCLI (in the first statelesx [...]
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By admin | December 10, 2008
I’m not going to try and claim credit for this development, but Rich Brambley (the only blog with a description that I feel outshines my own broke the news today that the free version ESXi 3 Update 3 appears to have a fully functional API. I plan on testing this out tomorrow, and will report [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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