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 self should a reason to attend! PowerCLI @ VMworld Europe from Alan Renouf on Vimeo. I am so looking forward to this, PowerCLI-MAN [...]

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 you will need to install vCenter, PowerCLI, Auto-Deploy and TFTP first, but I am guessing most of you will know how to do [...]

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 yelled: hell yeah! Alan worked on it for a couple of days over the last couple of weeks and this is the [...]

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 about the fact that there’s a formatting issue with the ebook which I agree with should be fixed by the publisher but [...]

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, VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere. Release date: 28th of March Authors: Luc Dekens, Alan Renouf, Glen Sizemore, Arnim [...]

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 using the requested protocol. I discovered that this was due to a change in the Proxy Server settings on the client. After removing this proxy address everything was [...]

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 number varies, however I encountered the following error on my system: Out-GridView : To use the Out-GridView cmdlet, install the Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment [...]