http://thepowershelltalk.com The PowerShell Talk Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:32:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok, So maybe they didn’t save the world, but the sure saved my weekend. Rather than spend a lot of time on the intro, let’s dive right in. These will be in Problem/PowerShell/Output format. The Problem: More spaghetti environments, this time we need to count some resources. The ... http://thepowershelltalk.com/2009/09/four-powercli-one-liners-that-saved-the-world/ One of the most amazing new features of vSphere is the ability to hot add hardware into a supported guest OS. However, when you need to upgrade your 20 node web farm, all of the right clicks and slider moves can become cumbersome. That is where VMware PowerCLI (PowerShell) comes ... http://thepowershelltalk.com/2009/08/vsphere-4-hot-add-hardware-and-powershell/ I almost wish I had stumbled on this before. Microsoft has published an “Owners Manual” for PowerShell. You know, that little book in the back of your glove box? Yeah, only this one is uber useful, and while not PowerCLI specific, will make your life as a VI admin, and ... http://thepowershelltalk.com/2009/08/powershell-owners-manual/ 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) As always, drop a line if ... http://thepowershelltalk.com/2009/07/new-powershell-snapin-versions-all-around/ I often find myself with more tools to check out than I have time to do the checking out. One of the tools that has been on my laundry list for a while was Primal Forms from Sapien. In a single word, this tool is “Awesome”. From the site: ... http://thepowershelltalk.com/2009/07/todays-bit-of-powershell-awesome-primal-forms/ 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, ... http://thepowershelltalk.com/2009/06/building-a-hypervisor-independent-script-part-2/ 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 ... http://thepowershelltalk.com/2009/05/timmy-fell-in-the-well-get-help-to-the-rescue/ 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 ... http://thepowershelltalk.com/2009/05/installing-xenserver-in-vmware-workstation/ 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 ... http://thepowershelltalk.com/2009/05/building-a-hypervisor-agnostic-script-intro/ So, here is the presentation. Really. Right here. Well… actually it’s on MediaFire here. The Slide Share part can be viewed below: Managing Virtual Infrastructures With PowerShell View more presentations from guesta849bc8b. Got Questions? Drop us a line in the comments. http://thepowershelltalk.com/2009/05/the-powershell-presentation/