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 about his two latest additions. [...]
I’ve been receiving a lot of questions around slot sizes lately. Although I point everyone to my HA Deepdive post not everyone seems to understand what I am trying to explain. The foremost reason is that most people need to be able to visualize it; which is tough with slot sizes. Just to freshen up an outtake from the article: [...]
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 think all of you should [...]
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 a new hardware level [...]
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 into Product Marketing. This [...]
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 if the license service is [...]
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 arrays beforehand. Once [...]
