Month: January 2016

Managing Linux with PowerShell DSC

Managing Linux with PowerShell DSC Managing Linux with PowerShell DSC – After some hard struggle, we know that success will finally come through. This is what happened when me “A pure windows guy” started testing out DSC for Linux. In this…

January 14, 2016 · by Vinith · 1

PowerCLI DSC Resource for Snapshot check.

PowerCLI DSC Resource for Snapshot check. Finally after a week of exploring DSC and building custom resource modules, i was finally able to build a custom DSC resource using PowerCLI. Huge Thanks to my friend Ravi, MVP PowerShell for helping…

January 7, 2016 · by Vinith · 2

Troubleshooting PowerShell DSC Deployments.

Troubleshooting PowerShell DSC Troubleshooting PowerShell DSC – In this post i wanted to share some troubleshooting steps i followed during my DSC testing. You can read more about my DSC testing i did at my earlier blogpost which shows how to…

January 6, 2016 · by Vinith · 0

Automate PowerCLI Install across your Windows Environment using PowerShell DSC

Automate PowerCLI Install using PowerShell DSC I have some cool stuff to share today, I was exploring the various internal DSC resources in the past week, and something which caught my eye was the “Package” DSC resource module. Automate PowerCLI What…

January 5, 2016 · by Vinith · 2

Visio using PowerCLI generate your vCenter Network Diagram

Visio using PowerCLI In this blog post, i would be showing you a cool way using which you can generate a network map of your entire vmware infrastructure, it basically involves using powercli in conjunction with visio api calls to…

January 3, 2016 · by Vinith · 25

vCloud Director VM Utilization Metrics using PowerCLI

vCloud Director VM Utilization Metrics using PowerCLI vCloud Director VM Utilization Metrics using PowerCLI – In this blog post we would see how we can use powercli to find the utilization metrics for a virtual machine within a orgvdc in…

January 3, 2016 · by Vinith · 0