No, I am not exaggerating. Alan Renouf truly is the uncrowned king of PowerCLI. Although I’ve seen some amazing scripts from other people as well Alan always seems to bring that little extra to make him stand out. No this is not an Alan Renouf appreciation blog article, although he deserves one, this article is [...]
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Alan Renouf’s, the powershell guru, Daily Report
July 16th, 2009
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Alan Renouf is definitely on of the most active bloggers when we are talking about Powershell/PowerCLI. His posts are always educational and of a high quality. I love the one-liners but nothing, absolutely nothing, beats this awesome Daily Report script that Alan has just published. I’m not going to repost his full article because I [...]
PowerCLI: Upgrading vHardware to vSphere Part 1: Templates
June 27th, 2009
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One of the blogs I’ve always enjoyed reading is ICT-Freak.nl. ICT-Freak is maintained by Arne Fokkema. Unfortunately Arne used to mix Dutch and English posts which means his blog is not aggregated on Planet V12n. This is why I wanted to point you out to the following awesome article:
With the release of vSphere VMware introduced [...]
Code Central
June 24th, 2009
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I visit the VMTN Communities daily and recently noticed a new section called Code Central. I didn’t pay attention to it cause I thought it was a private section but apparently it is not. Nava Davuluri introduced this new section and his role within VMware recently in a blog article:
I’m Nava Davuluri, a new hire [...]
Check if your license server is still running…
May 12th, 2009
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After I wrote the licensing server post a couple of days back one of my colleagues(Thanks Horst!) was so kind to email me the following script. What it basically does is check every server for the availability of the license source. Of course it can be improved by adding for instance a check to see [...]
Speed up your powershell scripts
March 24th, 2009
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On the VI Toolkit blog there’s a great article for people like me. They explain how to speed up your scripts. I’m no powershell guru, and these kind of articles are more than welcome to boost my scripting skills.
In short, it comes down to these three tips:
Try to load as many objects as possible into [...]
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