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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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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