I’ve been following William Lam‘s VMTN account in my RSS reader for a while as William regularly releases useful scripts. Lately he has been pumping iron and releasing new scripts or new versions of scripts on an almost daily basis. One of the most useful scripts that William released lately is “getvSwitchMacTable.pl”. Make sure to add William to you RSS [...]
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 it “harder, better, faster, stronger”. [...]
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: [...]
I regularly check William Lam’s section on the VMTN communities. William is definitely one of the most active contributors in terms of perl / vMA scripting. William wrote the famous ghettoVCB script which basically enables you to do full image level backups of your VMs. But that’s not the only script William wrote. He’s also written scripts for creating screenshots [...]
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 [...]
William Lam did it again. He created a script that manages FT from the command line. The script is called ftCLI.pl and here are the details: Description: Managing VMware Fault Tolerance via the command line. Params: The following operations are supported: create|enable|disable|stop Requirement: vSphere vCenter 4.0 ESX(i) 4.0 Advanced, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus or Eval licensing Assumption: Your environment is FT [...]
