PowerShell

If you are not running windows 2008 and don't have PowerShell installed then go get it from Microsoft's PowerShell landing page Then in order to manage your virtual infrastructure you will need the VI Toolkit for windows.

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

Learning VI-Toolkit Powershell

• Virtu-Al: Lesson 1 Time Source

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

• Introduction to the vSphere SDK in Java and C#

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

General powershell

• Error handling in Powershell

Powershell tools

• The Vizioncore Virtualization Ecoshell initiative

• Quest Software PowerGUI