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vSphere scripting : wait for vCenter

Posted on January 31, 2013 by josh@sostechblog.com

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

Posted on June 20, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

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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PowerCLI poster

Posted on February 11, 2011 by josh@sostechblog.com

Download a PDF printable at 34″ x 22″ of everything about PowerCLI you need at your fingertips here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/302399  

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