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Updating VMware tools without reboot

Sander Martijn — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:09:18 +0000

A client was asking me if it was possible to install the VMware tools inside VM’s without having to reboot them right after. I knew it was possible and went looking for a way on doing so. During the search I found several scripts made by people which looked good (some out of date), but for [...]

by Sander Martijn

Connect ISO to VM the PowerCLI way

Anne Jan Elsinga — Mon, 09 May 2011 06:00:27 +0000

I recently bought a new server for my home lab, or at least, it was the start of my home lab. After my ESX host crashed two years ago I didn’t took the time to rebuild it. As I started to rebuild every single VM on my host I quickly became somewhat irritated by the [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

Dutch VMUG: PowerCLI is for administrators!

Anne Jan Elsinga — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:19:19 +0000

Luc Dekens and Alan Renouf did a great presentation on PowerCLI. PowerCLI is based on PowerShell. PowerShell is designed by Microsoft with the SysAdmin in mind. It’s the universal language for Windows data centers. Most of the time GUI interfaces are single purpose and rigid. PowerShell is the glue between your infrastructure. Microsoft makes it [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

Vizioncore vProduct range

Erik Scholten — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:01:20 +0000

This morning we had a meeting with Vizioncore/Quest. Danny Claproth and Jan-Willem Koppers informed us on their complete range of vProducts. Vizioncore offers a wide range of products which add additional features or deliver VMware-like features. I’ve not had very much time to test their products yet but I knew most of them by name [...]

by Erik Scholten

The name is Epping, Duncan Epping….

Erik Scholten — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:40:25 +0000

This morning I received a tweet from Duncan Epping, Duncan works at VMware Benelux and is the owner of Yellow-Bricks.com. In the community it was a public secret that Duncan was in the USA to defend his case to become one of the fist VCDX (VMware Certified Design Expert) certified professionals worldwide. And this morning [...]

by Erik Scholten

Virtualization EcoShell release date

Erik Scholten — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:01:28 +0000

We already reported on this and even made a video of Scott Herold’s demo at VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes, the Virtualization EcoShell Initiative, VESI for short.The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative is a new Vizioncore-sponsored community initiative being led by virtualization expert and author Scott Herold. The goal of The VESI community is to further enhance [...]

by Erik Scholten

VMworld Europe 2009 – VESI demo by Scott Herold

Erik Scholten — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:15:03 +0000

Yesterday Scott Herold gave us a demo of VESI, a free VI toolkit from Vizioncore based on PowerShell. With this toolkit it is very easy to automate task in your virtual infrastructure without any knowledge of powershell. Just browse the tool, select the desired actions and build a powershell script. The free toolkit will be [...]

by Erik Scholten

VMworld Europe 2009 – EcoShell introduction

Anne Jan Elsinga — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:57:05 +0000

At the booth of Vizioncore Scott Herold gave a presentation and demonstration about the Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI). The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI) is a new Vizioncore-sponsored community initiative being led by virtualization expert and author Scott Herold. The goal of The VESI community is to further enhance the administrative experience of virtual infrastructures with [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga

VMware VI Toolkit Update to 1.5

Erik Scholten — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:19:18 +0000

VMware recently introduced the new and improved VI Toolkit, version 1.5 VI Toolkit (for Windows) is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell. It provides more than 150 cmdlets for managing and automating your VMware Infrastructure. You can download now this new version from : http://www.vmware.com/downloads/download.do?downloadGroup=VI-WT-15 For the release notes you can visit: [...]

by Erik Scholten

More PowerShell stuff

Anne Jan Elsinga — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:17:46 +0000

Last year I started to write a small program in Perl to document the virtual infrastructures we encounter at client locations. But since it’s all PowerShell it was time to start to write the same thing in PowerShell. Although I do a lot with different scripting languages the PowerShell method was somewhat new to me. [...]

by Anne Jan Elsinga