Following my Powershell and VMware infrastructure article the other day, I wanted to let everyone know about this great post I saw this morning in my Google reader.
VMware’s David Deeths has dropped a post on the VMware Developer Center blog entitled “An introduction to scripting VI using PERL or Powershell” This gives people the oppurtunity to download the VI Scripting labs content from VMWorld 2008. This appears to have been very popular at VMWorld judging by the commnets below, so I’m hoping it will prove useful to all those beginning their Powershell experience.
The labs will help you get started with scripting VMware Infrastructure to enable automation, extensibility, and integration with existing tools. When we ran this at VMworld, we had about 600 attendees and it was so popular some students camped out in line to attend the lab a second time. We had so many folks request a way to share this with their teams that we decided to publish the whole thing for the community
VI Toolkit / Powershell
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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.
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-6980?tstart=30
VI Toolkit / Powershell
ESX 3, powershell, scripting, snapshots, vi toolkit, VI3
