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| If you are not running windows 2008/Windows 7 and don't have PowerShell (Posh) installed then go get it from Microsoft's [http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx PowerShell landing page] | | If you are not running windows 2008/Windows 7 and don't have PowerShell (Posh) installed then go get it from Microsoft's [http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx PowerShell landing page] |
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| It is nowadays also offered via Windows Update as an optional update. | | It is nowadays also offered via Windows Update as an optional update. |
| Then in order to manage your virtual infrastructure you will need the [[VI Toolkit for windows]]. | | |
| | Then in order to manage your virtual infrastructure you will need the [[VI Toolkit for windows]] and then go to the [[PowerCLI]] page. |
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| ==== Learning VI-Toolkit Powershell ==== | | ==== Learning Powershell ==== |
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| * [[BEGINNERS PAGE | Beginners page]] | | * [[BEGINNERS PAGE | Beginners page]] |
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| * [[Virtu-Al: Lesson 1 Time Source]] | | * [[Learning Powershell]] |
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| * [[Virtu-Al: Lesson 2 Service and Firewall Configuration]]
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| * [[Virtu-Al: Lesson 3 Networking]]
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| * [[Virtu-Al: Lesson 4 Portgroups]]
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| * [[Powershell CMDLET list]] (thank you Alan Renouf for the idea and initial work)
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| * [http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-4210 Managing VMware with PowerShell -- Frequently Asked Questions]
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| * [http://communities.vmware.com/message/1381785 PowerCLI Poster with all the available cmdlets]
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| ==== PowerCLI Oneliners ====
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| [http://www.peetersonline.nl/index.php/about/ Hugo Peeters] started with posting so called oneliners to indicate how powerful the VI-Toolkit on Powershell is. After a while this got picked up by others as sort of a sport to see if you can do it in one line. Below is a collection of links with oneliners from great powershell scripters. These pages now contains links to oneliners from [http://www.peetersonline.nl/index.php/about/ Hugo Peeters], [http://www.virtu-al.net Alan Renouf], [http://get-admin.com get-admin.com] and [http://ict-freak.nl Arne Fokkema]
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| * [[PowerCLI Oneliners: Statistics]]
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| * [[PowerCLI Oneliners: Events]]
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| * [[PowerCLI Oneliners: Host Configuration]]
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| * [[PowerCLI Oneliners: VM Configuration]]
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| * [[PowerCLI Oneliners: Storage]]
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| ==== PowerCLI scripts (not categorized) ====
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| * [http://virtualfuture.info/2008/07/powershell-remove-connected-iso/ Remove connected iso's]
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| * [http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-6973 HBA Load Balancer]
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| * [http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-6972 Deploy and Redeploy vm's (from templates) from a .csv]
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| * [http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9610 Resourcepool Reservation Script]
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| * [http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-7090 Add/Remove active directory user accounts who belong to a particular security group on all ESX hosts]
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| * [http://mikedatl.typepad.com/mikedvirtualization/2008/10/quick-migration.html Quick migration]
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| * [[Out-Dataset Cmdlet]]
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| * [[Introduction to scripting vi using perl or powershell]]
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| * [[Manage VMware Server with PowerShell]]
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| * [[Introduction to the vSphere SDK in Java and C#]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Oneliners]]
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| * [http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/09/how-to-run-powercli-scripts-from-vcenter-alarms.html How to run PowerCLI scripts from vCenter alarms]
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| ===== VM Configuration =====
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| * [[Restart VMware Tools on all Windows VM's]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Update VMwaretools without a reboot]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Add configuration details to VMX]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Scripted edit of a VMX file]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Get Virtual Machine disk usage]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Set CPU Identification Mask]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Force a VM to enter BIOS setup on next boot]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Set VM Snapshot location]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Resolving improper memory limits on your virtual machines]]
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| ===== Host Management =====
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| * [[PowerCLI: Report every VM added to vCenter in the last 30 days]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Get Virtual Machine total size]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Export and import customization profiles]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Export Task and eventlogs to file using TaskHistoryCollector]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Snap reminder]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Daily Report]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Get number of vCPU's used in cluster]]
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| * [[PowerCLI: Factory reset of ESXi]]
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| ==== General powershell ====
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| * [http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2006/11/03/erroraction-and-errorvariable.aspx Error handling in Powershell]
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| * [http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2009/05/12/a-powershell-port-scan/ A powershell port scan]
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| * [[Remote WMI defrag script]]
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| * [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/893295/what-are-some-of-the-most-useful-yet-little-known-features-in-the-powershell-lang useful less known features in powershell]
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| * [http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx MS Technet scriptcenter]
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| * [http://www.virtu-al.net/2009/07/10/running-a-powercli-scheduled-task/ Virtu-al: Running a PowerCLI Scheduled task]
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| * [http://blog.geekpoet.net/2008/04/powershell-script-to-report-on-all.html Geekpoet: Report on all scheduled tasks in your domain]
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| * [http://www.peetersonline.nl/index.php/powershell/user-confirmation-in-powershell/ Peetersonline: User Confirmation in Powershell]
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| * [http://autopowershell.com/projects/show/autops Autopowershell scripting host]
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| * [http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/powerguiorg-now-with-about_-topics/ twitter @powerGuiOrg]
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| * [http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2009/07/22/dynamic-binary-modules.aspx MSDN Powershell blog: Dynamically compile and load an assembly on Remote Host]
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| * [http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2009/07/22/hey-scripting-guy-how-can-i-speed-up-my-windows-powershell-scripts.aspx Technet Blog: How can I speed up my Powershell scripts?]
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| * [http://www.nivot.org/2009/08/19/PowerShell20AConfigurableAndFlexibleScriptLoggerModule.aspx PowerShell 2.0: A Configurable and Flexible Script Logger Module]
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| * [http://www.idera.com/Products/Free-Tools/PowerShell-scripts/ Free SQL Server powershell scripts]
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| * [http://www.astroarch.com/blog/?p=11 Blue Gears: Power Shell-ism's Tales from a Linux Developer]
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| * [http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/scriptfanatic/archive/2009/09/07/parsing-powershell-scripts.aspx parsing PowerShell scripts]
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| ==== Powershell tools ====
| | * [[Powershell techniques and tips]] |
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| * [http://www.thevesi.org The Vizioncore Virtualization Ecoshell initiative] | | * [[Powershell Tools]] |
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| * [http://www.powergui.org Quest Software PowerGUI]
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| * [http://www.primaltools.com/freetools/ SAPIEN Primalforms] See also [http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2008/11/03/getting-started-with-primalforms/ Getting started with Primalforms]
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| [[Category: Powershell]][[Category: VI-Toolkit]] | | [[Category: Powershell]][[Category: VI-Toolkit]] |
