PowerShell

If you are not running windows 2008/Windows 7 and don't have PowerShell (Posh) installed then go get it from Microsoft's PowerShell landing page 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.

Learning VI-Toolkit Powershell

• Beginners page

• Virtu-Al: Lesson 1 Time Source

• Virtu-Al: Lesson 2 Service and Firewall Configuration

• Virtu-Al: Lesson 3 Networking

• Virtu-Al: Lesson 4 Portgroups

• Powershell CMDLET list (thank you Alan Renouf for the idea and initial work)

• Managing VMware with PowerShell -- Frequently Asked Questions

Scripts on other locations

• Remove connected iso's

• HBA Load Balancer

• Deploy and Redeploy vm's (from templates) from a .csv

• Resourcepool Reservation Script

• Add/Remove active directory user accounts who belong to a particular security group on all ESX hosts

• Quick migration

• Out-Dataset Cmdlet

• Introduction to scripting vi using perl or powershell

• Restart VMware Tools on all Windows VM's

• Manage VMware Server with PowerShell

• Introduction to the vSphere SDK in Java and C#

• PowerCLI: Report every VM added to vCenter in the last 30 days

• PowerCLI: Update VMwaretools without a reboot

• PowerCLI: Add configuration details to VMX

• PowerCLI: Oneliners

General powershell

• Error handling in Powershell

• A powershell port scan

• Remote WMI defrag script

• useful less known features in powershell

• MS Technet scriptcenter

Powershell tools

• The Vizioncore Virtualization Ecoshell initiative

• Quest Software PowerGUI

• SAPIEN Primalforms See also Getting started with Primalforms