powershell
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VMware PowerCLI
PowerCLI Mass Clone and Rename VMware VMs from One vCenter Folder to Another
Automation is king of IT operations today. It is extremely cool and rather fun to be able to hack out a few lines of PowerShell or PowerCLI code in the vSphere realm and perform massive operations that would possibly take…
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VMware PowerCLI
VMware vSphere PowerCLI 11.0 Released with New Features and Updating
Automation in the VMware vSphere environment is certainly one of the most exciting aspects of VMware vSphere administration and is required to operate environments at scale. Those that are interested or using automation in VMware vSphere environments are no doubt…
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VMware PowerCLI
Automate VMware vSphere Documentation with PowerShell and PowerCLI
Let’s face it, documentation is something that none of us get too excited about. We all know it is a necessary evil, and you are glad when you have it, but if you are like me, you hate to have…
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VMware PowerCLI
VMware HTML5 Web Client Fling PowerCLI Code Capture
Recently, I had seen a seen a blog post on the VMware PowerCLI blog about a new feature found in the latest release of the VMware HTML5 Web Client Fling that allows capturing PowerCLI code from your actions in vCenter…
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Windows Containers
Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Containers
Containers are certainly all the rage in the world of virtualization and are the next evolution in how businesses deploy and host applications and perform development. Containers offer several advantages over full blown virtual machines when it comes to efficiency,…
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Powershell
Installing PowerShell Core PowerCLI 10.0 in Windows 10
Microsoft has taken PowerShell to the next level in its GA release of PowerShell Core. What is PowerShell Core? It is the cross-platform version of PowerShell that is based on .NET Core which is open source as opposed to the…
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Backup Software
Check for Orphaned Veeam Temporary Snapshots
For those using Veeam Backup & Replication in a vSphere environment perhaps backing up hundreds of virtual machines one of the important housekeeping items you may want to keep a check on is any Veeam temporary snapshots that may for…
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vSphere 6.5
Update VMware ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 with PowerCLI
There are a number of different ways to get your VMware ESXi 6.0 hosts upgraded to ESXi 6.5. We have covered some of them in previous articles. However, let’s take a quick look at utilizing PowerCLI for this task with…
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Backup Software
PowerShell Compare VM inventory with Veeam Backup Jobs
If you run Veeam Backup & Replication in your environment and you have many VMs in your VMware vSphere inventory and you want to audit to make sure you have corresponding Veeam Backup jobs in place for those VMs, we…
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Powershell
Automate Veeam Restores Using PowerShell
One of the powerful things that Veeam offers is the ability to use PowerShell to both backup and restore virtual machines. ย This makes for great ways to automate tasks either backups or restores, or even other jobs via the PowerShell…