VESI PowerPack Authoring

I created my first VESI PowerPack with a little help from Alan Renouf, Darin Pendergraft and Carter Shanklin. Before I’m going to show off, first let’s explain what a PowerPack actually is.
A PowerPack is a collection of PowerShell scripts that are used to extend the Virtualization EcoShell administrative console. These scripts are stored inside of nodes, links or actions all of which are used to add functionality into the console.



Carters Shanklin’s WebEx sessions are awesome, he demoed a well written series of PowerShell scripts. With one of his scripts you’re able to collect the %RDY time statistics for all your Virtual Machines. The most common cause of high ready time is trying to get too much work out of too little hardware. Often this condition is observable when ready time is high and total host CPU utilization is also very high. The only fix for this is to back off the load on the system. VMs should be migrated off or processor resources should be increased. I combined Carter’s script with a new feature in the Virtualization EcoShell and created my first PowerPack.

If you’re interested in creating your own PowerPack take a look at the “PowerGUI Basic PowerPack Authoring” created by Darin Pendergraft. Also keep an eye on Alan Renouf’s website http://www.virtu-al.net/ , he’s going to launch a real cool VESI PowerPack with all his PowerShell scripts, I’ve received the beta and it already looks impressive.

 Here's my PowerPack: http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/uploads/NTPRO.NL.powerpack