Many people are becoming curious about the powershell/powerCLI and how to become a Powershell/PowerCLI ninja and I think the following tips will help one go a long way to become one: Focus on specific task. When you are curious about … Read More
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Domain Controller keeps starting in Directory Service Restore mode
About Directory Service Restore mode. I wrote this post in case anyone had the same problem, after installing the last batch of Microsoft updates on one of my virtualized domain controllers. I wanted to restart my machine. After restating there … Read More
Tags: microsoft, virtual machine, VM
dvPortgroup Inheritance
Someone may claim the default settings for portgroup inheritance in the dvSwitches, they may be missing in the vSphere client but they still exist and can be set in the API.The real problem was every new dvPortgroup does not have … Read More
Tags: inheritance, PowerCLI, vmware, vport
Cleaning your vCloud Director Thumbnails (current.png)
Thumbnail images are used by vCloud Director to give you a preview of the screen without opening up to the remote console, the dark side is when you migrate/svMotion a machine managed by vCloud Director, it leaves a folder along … Read More
Tags: PowerCLI, vCloud, vcloud director, VM
VMware trademark guide
VMware trademark guide a very important resource for bloggers, technical writer .VMware employees and partners who have less interest in blogs .the guide is intended to provide guidance regarding the VMware brand names that tend to draw the greatest interest. … Read More
vShield Edge Version Discovery with PowerCL
It has become clear that when upgrading your vShield manager, the shield edge devices will not be upgrade until you restart them. Sometimes we are caught in a situation where you need to do manual scheduled upgrades , then you … Read More
Tags: PowerCLI, vCloud, vcloud director, virtual machine, vmware, vshiel, vsphere
vCloud Director Snapshots with PowerCLI
Providers and users running vCloud 5.1 have access to take a single snapshot of your VMs.to be able to have all the fun you want with the snapshots in powerCLI you are going to need what I have in this … Read More
Tags: PowerCLI, vCloud, vcloud director, vcloud snapshots, vmware
vCloud API 5.1 Metadata
Over the years there has been a lot of changes in metadata in vCloud director,so am going to give te difference between the metadata in vCloud director 5.1 and the previous ones. The difference is: Typed values-in the latest update … Read More
Tags: PowerCLI, vCloud, vcloud API, vcloud director, vcloud users
Simple VM reporting in vCloud with PowerCLI
Its clear that many people are having a challenge of not having a great view of VMs and their location in the organization. This is all due to the unique requirement of VMs to exist inside vApps in vCloud director, … Read More
vCloud user training
It is clear that a lot of vCloud users are not well trained by their vCloud providers. This is due to the fact that the current training available is for running your own vCloud Director environment and vCloud training staff … Read More
vCloud 5.1 API Support in PowerCLI 5.1 R2
It has been clear that some people were curious to know when the vCloud 5.1 feature will support powerCLI , wait no more! The powerCLI 5.1 R2 has officially stopped and the new vCloud 5.1 feature are built in. these … Read More
Tags: PowerCLI, vCloud, vcloud director
Time Reporting with Outlook and Powershell
How many people work in companies that require them to keep a Time sheet of all their different projects? You know the answer. Many are forced to have different tools to help with the time tracking and reporting.outlook calenders are … Read More
Tags: outlook, powershell
UPLOADING vmS TO VcLOUD WITH OVFtool
VMware’s OVFtool is a command line tool that allows you to convert VMware Virtual machines to Open virtualization Format (OVF). There have been some update in the latest version that enables the to upload VMs to vCloud Director.it is actually … Read More
Tags: ovftool, vCloud, virtual machine, vmware
Sharing vApps in vCloud with PowerCLI
Some times vCloud Directors give the organization users grainy control over the the level of access users have to vApps , this is all controlled through the the vCloud API and powerCLI. The code below takes vApps‘ current settings and … Read More
Setting Default VDSwitch security for vCloud with PowerCLI
Being versed with knowledge on vCloud provider have in many occasions helped my friends who have their own private vCloud ,so I thought it will be a good idea to share this with you. It is about setting default security … Read More
Tags: PowerCLI, vCloud, vcloud director, vcloud provider, vdswitch
Powershell Outlook Time Reporting by Category
This code does the task of an Outlook Time Reporting sheet with all the categories and times of the day and the summary for a week. Hope it will help someone out there to import their time into SAP. This is … Read More
Tags: by category, outlook, powershell, reporting
Import an OVF from your desktop to a vCloud Org Catalog
It comes a time when you have downloaded a nice appliance in OVF and you want to upload it to your vCloud Director Org and you have encountered a problem while using the Web UI , this simple PowerCLI method … Read More
Tags: ovf, PowerCLI, vCloud, vcloud director
Hacking the vCloud Director browser support warning
I came upon this article where some guy was explaining how to Hacking the vCloud Director to work on other browsers like chrome. So when he ran this: Invoke-RestMethod “https://vcloud.example.com/cloud/org/jake” | Out-File C:usersjakedesktopvcloudindex.html -encoding UTF8 It dumps the HTML from … Read More
Tags: vCloud, vcloud director, vmware, vtask
Emailing vCloud Organization Users
Due to a lot of requests I found necessary to show you guys who might be having a problem using the “notify users” function in the vCloud Director web UI through the vCloud API. Even though the functionality is not … Read More
Tags: email, vCloud, vcloud organization
Creating new vCloud Organization users with PowerCLI
Today am going to show you how to create new cloud user with powerCLI though there is no new-CLuser cmdlet so far. We require a username , password and a role, the tough part is finding a role to assign … Read More
Tags: PowerCLI, vcloud organization, vcloud users
Add vCloud Harddisks with PowerCLI
Add vCloud Harddisks with PowerCLI When it comes to adding new disks to a VM,it is a little tough and you must be careful due to the many implementation of the objects in the SDK, tasks like conversion from XML … Read More
Tags: PowerCLI, powershell, vCloud, VM
VMware releases vSphere powerCLI 5.5 R2
There was some new release of vSphere PowerCLI 5.5(Build 1649237) wich was shared by Alan Renouf on facebook . The new R2 has the following features per the release notes: Access to the vCenter Server SRM public API (Connect-SRMServer and … Read More
VMTurbo’s Disruptive Software-Driven Control Expands Across Storage and Fabric To Realize Full Value of Virtualization
VMTurbo’s Disruptive Software-Driven Control Expands Across Storage and Fabric To Realize Full Value of Virtualization VMTurbo Operations Manager Enables Customers to Realize 30%Improvement in Utilization – VMTurbo, provider of the only Software-Driven Control for virtualized environments, today announced a new … Read More
WHAT ARE A, MX, CNAME, SRV, TXT, SPF AND AAAA RECORDS?
A record is the most common type of DNS resource record CNAME. It tells a DNS server what IP address to map a host name to. With an A record, you can set www.yourname.com to point a specific IP address. … Read More
Failed to connect to VMware lookup service
It has come to my attention that many people are having the problem of being unable to connect to the VMware lookup service. This is a problem that can be brought about by a number of reasons, I have come … Read More
