Posts under ‘Tools’

Vizioncore just released the newest version of the vEcoShell (Virtualization EcoShell). As a user and developer of VMware PowerCLI scripts I almost use the vEcoShell on a daily basis. The amazing thing about the vEcoShell is that you don’t need any scripting experience to use PowerCLI scripts and examples found on the web. If you [...]

If you are looking for migrating your Windows-based computer to a virtual environment (P2V), vice versa (V2P) or even to another hardware platform (P2P), you might want to have a look at Virtualization Manager 9.5 Personal edition from Paragon software.
Virtualization Manager 9.5 Personal allows you to:

Migrate a Windows-based computer to a virtual environment (P2V)
Migrate from a virtual [...]

On April 8th we had a very good DutchVMUG meeting, which was totally dedicated to using PowerCLI and The VESI (Virtualization EcoShell Initiative). Although setting up the environment is straightforward, I wanted to do a small write-up which leads you through the install process and includes all download links needed.
Installation Overview
The complete setup of the [...]

Everybody backups their environment, but how many do actually test if the backup can be restored? When you do, you know how time consuming this process is and even when you do a test restore, you are actually only testing that particular backup. You can’t possibly test every backup in your environment.
Veeam, an industry leader [...]

In my post Unattended upgrade of HP mgmt agents – Part 2 you could read about my script for an unattended installation of the HP Management agents on ESX3.5. In this part I’ll share my next version of the script for installing the HP Management agents on ESX4.0 and ESX4.0 U1.
In the ESX4 installation, the location of [...]

It’s been a year since I blogged about my script to perform an unattended upgrade of the HP management agents 8.1.1 on ESX 3.5 U3. After HP upgraded their management agents to version 8.2.0 some things changed. The installation procedure is now a 2 step process. First there’s a PreInstall_Setup.sh script which modifies some startup [...]

Idera released PowerShell Plus™ 3.1
PowerShell Plus is a powerful interactive development environment for Windows PowerShell designed to help administrators and developers quickly learn and master the PowerShell scripting language while dramatically increasing the productivity of both novice and expert users.
PowerShell Plus™ v3.1 includes these new features:

Community Script Library Integration – Increases script developer productivity by [...]

Last week VMware released PowerCLI 4.0 Update1. According to the PowerCLI blog this new version contains over 60 new cmdlets as well as greatly improved performance.
One great thing is that they put the cmdlet reference online. I always like references online, because they are always at your disposal. When I ‘m working on my scripts, [...]

I’ve always been using UDA1.4 for my ESX deployments up until ESX3.5. Now when it comes to vSphere the UDA1.4 isn’t a good fit anymore, because it doesn’t support ESX4. Luckily Carl Thijssen, the mastermind behind the UDA, released a 2.0 beta version  a couple of months ago, which, with a little help from Mike [...]

After upgrading to ESX 3.5 to update3, I found out that the HP management agents needed to be upgraded to version 8.1.1, since this version supports ESX3.5 update3. So I downloaded the new agents and decided to install the latest HBAAPI libraries from Qlogic too. These HBA libraries are not part of the HP agents [...]