PowerWF Studio can now read PowerShell and PowerCLI natively as workflow activities. This feature allows you to leverage existing PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts when building agents for SCOM, redploying back into PowerShell as Cmdlets/Snapins, or simply to make PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts more accessible as runable flowcharts.
Thursday, August 13. 2009
Convert PowerShell/PowerCLI to Workflow
Free VMware Tools Listing at Techhead
Simon Seagrave over at Techhead created a great list with a lot of freely available VMware related tools. He reminded me of my first self written VMware tool. :-)
Wednesday, August 12. 2009
VMware Roundtable - live now - broadcasting video live this week!
VKernel Inventory and How to Use
VKernel created a new applet to help you "slice and dice your VMs" to generate reports for yourself and your management. With our Inventory applet you can:
• Find all VMs
• Show who created them and when
• Show what guest OSs they run
• Sort them by resource usage
• Schedule, create, and email reports
Datacenter Technologies 27th & 28th October 2009 Frankfurt
Virtualization World 2009 offers you a new platform to learn and develop your knowledge of this key IT trend in a non-partisan environment supported not only by the leading names in the industry today but also by SNIA Europe, the leading industry association and its wide base of members.
The two-day conference program will address not only the hottest topics and trends but also help you navigate through the jargon with a series of vendor-neutral tutorials and real-life customer experiences.
Co-located with SNW Europe – now in its sixth consecutive year in Frankfurt, and Datacenter Technologies. Another brand-new conference and expo, Virtualization World brings you the power of three events, over two days under one roof.
Saturday, August 8. 2009
newScale Announces Service Catalog Solution for VMware
The virtual appliance also offers new capabilities for service item lifecycle management, with an audit trail and tracking for the complete lifecycle of each virtual machine. This includes standard VM definitions, information on who requested specific instances and why, as-provisioned and change management history, as-running status, and decommission dates. VMware administrators will now have the visibility they need to determine which departments are consuming which resources, eliminate over-provisioning, reclaim unused virtual machines, and reduce virtual server sprawl.
The newScale Service Catalog for VMware trial is available now to qualified prospects at www.newScale.com/VMware. This 14-day trial includes everything you need to evaluate how newScale will work in your VMware environment:
• Downloadable virtual appliance including newScale application software, database, VMware vCenter adapter and Web server;
• Example library of content for the most common virtual server requests, including sample VM request forms and approval workflows;
• Self-paced tutorial to guide you through the set-up and deployment process;
• 1 hour personalized orientation session to answer your questions; and
• Access to the newScale Support Portal and User Community with a subscription to the newScale tips and tricks program.