VI Toolkit & Powershell
I’ve been meaning to look at Powershell for sometime now, they’re always showing it off at Microsoft roadshows!! So when I saw that Vmware had release the VIToolkit I thought now would be the perfect time to finally do something about it.
I’ve not been dissapointed, I’ve been highly impressed by some of the entries in the VI Scripting contest and have been looking through and trying out some of the entries. You can find all the entries at the link below and the second link is the VI toolkit blog which is a great source of info and also includes the results from the competiton.
http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/toolkit_contest?view=all&numResults=15
http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/
One of the ones that I have used and got immediate benefit from is Chris Uys snapshot finding script. Imagine my horror when It reported it had found a 153Gb snapshot on a test database server from April this year. It was swiftly deleted and the script is one I will be using on a regular basis to ensure we’re managing the snapshots correctly. You can find the link to the script below.
