I’m not sure how I missed this the first time around. Citrix and VMware have both rolled new versions of their PowerShell Snapins for new versions of their products.
Citrix XenServer 5.5 PowerShell SnapIn SDK
VMware PowerCLI (PowerShell Toolkit for vSphere)
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Last time we covered getting the information we care about out of the various PowerShell toolkits, and what that looks like. If you are just joining us, or want to refresh your knowledge, the first part in the series is here.
This time we’re going to cover the Pipeline, and the “Begin” and “Process” code blocks. [...]
Timmy was always getting into some sort of trouble, wasn’t he? The famous collie running through the fields, may not be the first thing that comes to mind for a good PowerShell analogy, it does apply. Think about it. Timmy ran into trouble,and he told Lassie to “Get-Help”. Get-Help is one of the most useful [...]
Was actually pretty easy. Rather than give a full run down, with youtube video, etc. I’ll give you the cliffs notes version of getting it up and running:
Create Virtual Machine, Custom
WS 6.5 Compatibility
Linux Kernel, other
Number of processors: 2
Memory: 1024
Bridged Networking (change to team later on)
LSI Logic
New disc, SCSI [...]
What good is having PowerShell everywhere, what do you do, when you run a “Heterogeneous” environment? Today we’ll show you the basics of building a hypervisor agnostic script. We’ll build on this knowledge over time. To do this, we’ll use a slight modification on our existing “get-uuid.ps1” script. We’ll break this out into a few [...]
Brandon Shell published his Synergy demo, exhibiting the power of PowerShell when used with XenApp. You can also take a look and Brian Madden & Brandon talking PowerShell here.
This is the “VM Easy Bake Oven” rewritten for XenServer. Take a look at the example code:
Same flow as the VMware Demo. Connect, create, get some info, change the VM, and delete the VM. Special things to note here however, is that the Memory (DynamicMax, StaticMin, etc) need to be set in bytes. Other [...]
This one flows much the same as Demo 1 for VMware. The example code:
Here we get credentials, and pass that to the connection to XenServer. Note that for XenServer (at least the Citrix variety) you need to specify the URL of the Xen HOST itself. After that we create the network, change it’s description, [...]
