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vSphere scripting : wait for vCenter

Building off an earlier demo environment script I found a better way to delay my demo batch until after vCenter starts, by levering Sysinternal’s plist.exe utility: REM Wait for vCenter to start. :Wait c:progra~1pstoolspslist.exe \vCenter | find “vpxd” IF NOT … Continue reading

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Management Automation

PowerShell has been embraced by a variety of companies looking to manage their products from a command line. While VMware started out with a Perl-based script set, they quickly expanded to a PowerShell set of commandlets. The official VMware Automation … Continue reading

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