Many people, who do not like working hard, but believe in efficiency, automation and working smarter. Just like scripters. You’ll sometimes hear them say something like “Any process which is repeated once or more should be scripted”. Thus my personal … Read More
PowerCLI
Upload Media to vCloud with PowerCLI
This script is a way in which you can upload your media to your vCloud Director Catalog.it is a really nice script for those of us with many ISOs you need to put somewhere safe. Hope it helps: $isoFolder = … Read More
PowerCLI: enable SSH and configure ESXi host Firewall
Here is a post to help you be able to configure SSH to start automatically. This is done by PowerCLI scripts that hide the shell warning message and configure the ESXi firewall to allow connection from specific IP addresses. You first … Read More
vCloud VM and VApp Backups with PowerCLI
It appears that at times snapshots solve it and asking the vCloud VM provider to set up backups is unrealistic, these examples will explain it: • Upgrades with testing could take longer than a snapshot can exist. • Temporary workloads … Read More
PowerCLI in the Cloud
Those who are active with PowerCLI sessions at VMWorld, you may still be having in your mind the mention of a vCloud snapin coming soon. It is going to be the first Powershell snapin that allows administration of your hybrid … Read More
Power combined: PowerCLI and OVFTool
Power combined: Combining two good things creates wonders. In this post I will show how to combine the automation abilities of PowerCLI with OVFTool. You first have to get some old knowledge. Open virtualization format was designed to be a … Read More
Tags: ovftool, PowerCLI, vCloud, vcloud director, vmware
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
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 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
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
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
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
