Tuesday, April 14. 2009
Scott Herold talks about VESI and Vizioncore
Thursday, April 9. 2009
Scott Herold announced the public availability of Virtualization EcoShell
I'm not talking "Free for 30 days and then we're going to rip 80% of the features away". I'm not talking "Free....for only a few ESX Servers". I'm talking 100% completely free of charge regardless of the size of your environment. How's that for an April 15th surprise?
The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI™) is a community-based initiative to help extend virtualization management using Microsoft Windows PowerShell. Whether you are a novice looking for assistance in enhancing your virtualization administration practices or an expert looking to share your knowledge with others, theVESI.org is the place for you.
Tuesday, March 31. 2009
Don't forget to check out VESI
Monday, March 30. 2009
Andrew Kutz is finally into PowerShell
Andrew Kutz just posted a new Hyper9 Cmdlet on sourceforce.net called Out-DataSet.
Out-DataSet is an extremely useful and needed cmdlet. You can use it to pipe any type of data that can be formatted with the built-in cmdlet, Format-Table, into a typed Microsoft .NET System.Data.DataSet. This allows an unlimited manipulation of data that you simply cannot achieve with text globbing. This cmdlet is experimental in nature because it was achieved by reverse engineering the Format-Table cmdlet to pull the data directly from internal data structures that Microsoft does not expose via its public API. This was a necessary task in order to represent the data with 100% accuracy every single time.
Update : A facelift for lostcreations.com
While Andrew Kutz is working at Hyper9, lostcreations.com will become h9labs.com to reflect the bleeding edge R&D that he’s doing. The site redesign is primarily cosmetic, and lostcreations.com still works as a URL. Andrew is just trying to make sure that if you've been coming to his site to get the coolest software in the virtualization industry then you can just keep on coming. If, however, you are new to the game, then h9labs.com and h9labs.hyper9.com work as well.
Tuesday, March 24. 2009
Resources on Powershell
Monday, March 9. 2009
VMware Infrastructure PowerPack 2.1.5 released
Kirk Munro finished posting another release of the VMware Infrastructure Management PowerPack with a few more enhancements.
This release greatly improves usability through the new icons that were added (and I mean *greatly* improves…the value the icons add is huge). It’s also the first PowerPack release that takes advantage of some really cool Visio scripts that I’ve been working on. The Visio scripts I’m referring to were largely inspired by Alan Renouf’s vDiagram script, although the Visio script I ended up with doesn’t look anything like the original. I’m itching to talk more about those scripts, but I want to write a blog post specifically on that topic so watch for more on this in the next few days. For now I’ll simply point out that to use the Visio functionality, you have to download the additional VESI_Visio.zip file that was added to the VMware Infrastructure Management PowerPack document page and install it as per the instructions in that document (see the “How to enable vDiagram support” section). Visio 2007 is required.
Revision history:
March 9, 2009 (2.1.5)
- added icons to the tree as well as the items in the grid.
- fixed a few minor defects that could occur before you connected to a host.
- added vDiagram actions to datacenter and cluster objects.