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PowerShell Prevents Datastore Emergencies

October 2, 2009 | 9 comments

When a datastore in your VMware vSphere environment is about to fill up, you can have vCenter automatically spring into action to prevent downtime by using Storage VMotion.

Better console for PowerShell and VITK

February 5, 2009 | 15 comments

By using Console2 with PowerShell and the VI Toolkit, users have much better text manipulation capabilities as well as the option to use different fonts.

VI Toolkit (for Windows) 1.5 and the PowerShell prompt

February 2, 2009 | No comments

The VI Toolkit for Windows overrides an existing PowerShell prompt function. Here is one simple way to restore a desired setting.

VI Toolkit (for Windows) 1.5 released

January 28, 2009 | 1 comment

There is a new version of the VI Toolkit (for Windows) up for the taking now, with quite a few new cmdlets and fixes.  Visit the official blog for links to download and read the release notes.  I installed the upgrade on top of my existing 1.0 without any issues.  (Wow, the download now weighs [...]

Finding thin-provisioned virtual disks with PowerShell

January 14, 2009 | 2 comments

Even though the VI Client does not offer creation of VMs with thin-provisioned disks, they may exist. Use a PowerShell script to identify them.

Clean up vCenter with PowerShell after SCVMM leaves

January 5, 2009 | 3 comments

When System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) connects to VirtualCenter/vCenter, several changes are made. Learn how to recover everything with PowerShell.