Rejoice, NetApp PowerShell users, for Toolkit 1.3 has dropped. There’s a bunch of new features and improvements in this release. Some new features that caught my eye are SSH Invocation and PowerShell provider. SSH Invocation (Invoke-NaSSH) allows you to send Data ONTAP CLI commands to your filer(s) via SSH. The PowerShell provider makes PowerShell drives […]
Archives for January 2011
VMware Host Profiles: compliance issue and fix
I thought I’d take a moment to write down some frustrations I’ve been having with VMware Host Profiles, and how I resolved it. Before I get into that, let’s take a second to discuss what they’re supposed to do, and how you can get it in your environment. Host Profiles is a VMware vCenter feature […]
Managing VMware Tools advanced options: PowerCLI
The other day I was looking at my virtual machines’ VMware Tools status, and sadly, many of them are out of date. It seems like I spend a lot of my time on host patching, but the Tools update seems to fall by the wayside. Perhaps it’s the disruption to production that rebooting causes (and […]
Goodbye, VESI. Hello, PowerGUI!
The time has finally come to retire the VESI (Virtualization Ecoshell) and install the latest PowerGUI (v2.3.0). I’ve known for a while now that the VESI’s functionality was being merged back into PowerGUI. I’ve been putting it off for a bit while waiting for the VMware PowerPack to be updated for PowerCLI 4.1. Well, today […]
RFC: What needs do you see in the VMware community?
One of my personal goals for 2011 is to increase my contributions to the VMware community at large. If you’re visiting this site, you’ll know that I tend to blog fairly regularly about PowerCLI and how I leverage it at my current employer. While I will most likely continue to do so, admittedly, it’s tough […]