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Clean up vCenter with PowerShell after SCVMM leaves
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 makes several changes to your vCenter environment that you may like to know about, especially since they don’t seem to be mentioned in the...
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Finding thin-provisioned virtual disks with PowerShell
By default, all virtual hard disks in VI3 are thick disks — space is allocated on the VMFS datastore for the entire disk. Thin disks, on the other hand, grow dynamically according to guest OS demand....
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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...
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VI Toolkit (for Windows) 1.5 and the PowerShell prompt
One of the first things that I noticed after launching my VI Toolkit (for Windows) 1.5 is the new prompt. It’s tricked-out with color now, but unfortunately steps on the existing two-row PowerShell...
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Better console for PowerShell and VITK
The stock Windows command prompt (cmd.exe) is pretty limited–if you want to use a better font or copy text in lines instead of clunky rectangular blocks, you need something else. For Windows...
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PowerShell Prevents Datastore Emergencies
In my previous post on VMware vSphere thin provisioning, I pointed out the new datastore alarm feature. You can take advantage of this feature to respond to a sudden storage demand and automatically...
View ArticleRegister a LUN full of VMs with PowerCLI
One of the great things about VMware vSphere is virtual machine encapsulation — a VM is simply a directory of files that can be easily copied around by administrators for a variety of purposes. Most...
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