This is just a reminder. The ESXi scripting contest is still running. Make sure you enter the competition. So far not many people have so chances of winning are pretty big!
VMware challenges you to build the best, most creative ESXi management scripts possible. The goal of the ScriptoMania contest is to help our wider community [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Scripting’
vSphere Quick Start Guide – PowerCLI and PDF
January 10th, 2010
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Alan Renouf posted an article on the vSphere Quick Start Guide we recently wrote which triggered this article. First let me quote from Alan’s article:
I was responsible for adding all the PowerCLI throughout the book, basically if something is explained and there is an easy way to do it in PowerCLI, we have added a [...]
vscsiStats output in esxtop format?
December 17th, 2009
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This week we(Frank Denneman and I) played around with vscsiStats, it’s a weird command and hard to get used to when you normally dive into esxtop when there are performance issues. While asking around for more info on the metrics and values someone emailed us nfstop. I assumed it was NDA or at least not [...]
in the ghetto….
November 18th, 2009
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William Lam just updated two of his most popular scripts. If you haven’t looked at them yet, make sure you do as they are worth it. ghettoVCB(g2) enables the backup of virtual machines residing on either an ESX or ESXi host. ghettoVCBg2 is a complete rewritten and enhanced version of ghettoVCB or as William puts [...]
The uncrowned king of PowerCLI is Alan Renouf
November 5th, 2009
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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 [...]
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide