A while back, I wrote a bit of a rant about the difficulties in finding helpful resources on writing PowerShell 2.0 cmdlets in C#. In case you hadn’t read it, my point was that there’s literally tons of great resources on authoring PowerShell scripts, but very little comparatively on how to author your own binary […]
Archives for 2011
PowerShell module for VIO-4001/4004
As I’ve mentioned before, I work as a sales engineer for Virtensys, a company that provides a very cool PCIe-based I/O virtualization appliance. Lately I’ve been working on an unofficial project to develop PowerShell cmdlets that will allow the provisioning of virtual I/O to servers connected to our VIO appliances. Here’s a *very* informal demo […]
Configuring EST & VST VLAN tagging with Dell PowerConnect: VMware vSphere
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve got a Dell PowerConnect 6224 in my vSphere lab. When I first started setting up my vSphere environment, I had some difficulties with configuring the Dell switch to support external switch tagging (EST) and virtual switch tagging (VST) VLAN modes. The VMware KB has a bunch of great information (KB […]
C#, WSDL, PowerShell cmdlets — Oh my!
Lately I’ve been working on trying to author PowerShell cmdlets with Visual Studio 2010 to talk to a web service. At first glance, I thought it would be easy. I had the WSDL and XSD files, and the webservice side of things is already working. There’s a web GUI that communicates via SOAP to the […]
Review: Skeletek 4 post rack
After starting my new job, I was given a number of servers, a switch, and one of our I/O virtualization appliances to be used for a variety of things like hands-on labs at VMUGs, or onsite customer proof of concepts, etc. Getting this kit was a small problem, as I didn’t have anywhere to put […]