VMware VI Powershell Support Available In Beta
Monday, 17 March 2008 by Michel Roth
Yes Powershell is all over the place. Even VMware, that will probably not make it to the Microsoft Thanksgiving dinner this year, has gotten on the Powershell train (do they have any choice) and have delivered a beta of their Powershell tool kit for Vi 3.5

In total there are 102 PowerShell cmdlets in the Beta that cover all aspects of Virtual Infrastructure management. The VMware Powershell blog has some interesting examples of what this Powershell Toolkit for VI could do:

  • Snapshot all of your virtual machines at once with a script
  • Automate long-running tasks like cloning using a script
  • Disconnect connected CD-ROM drives (to enable VMware VMotion, for example) using a script

Ironically, the Powershell interface is exactly what Microsoft is probably going to use to manage VI with System Center Virtual Machine Manager vNext. At least that's what i think that will happen seeing as Virtual Machine Manager is already 100% Powershell based.

Download the beta VI Toolkit for Windows . Get support at communities.vmware.com.


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Comments (1)
written by Gav Smythe, March 19, 2008
You little beauty!! Now I can update all my VMs vmtoolkits to the latest version with one script!

Cheers Michel for pointing it out to me

:-)
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