Category: PowerShell

PowerShell, VMware

My first PowerGUI PowerPack: Clone-Manage-VMs

This Clone and Manage VMs PowerPack developed in view of below features to let end users create VMs from base images, login to the cloned VMs, make changes to them and then overwrite the existing base image or same the updated VM as a new base Image. In vSphere, you’ll have two folders BaseImages: in which you’ll place all of the VMs that act as a Base Images ActiveVMs: in which all the user created cloned VMs will get placed You have option to "Connect-to-vSphere" server: which will prompt you for – "vSphere Server DNS name/IP-Address" – "vSphere Administrator user […]

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PowerShell

Working with PowerGUI Administrative Console (Authoring Mode)

“PowerGUI Administrative Console (Authoring Mode)”  is one of the easiest  and free tool that I am fond of developing GUI interface for my PowerShell scripts.   It’s command line is: "C:Program Files (x86)PowerGUIAdminConsole.exe" –AuthoringMode   Essentially it creates a GUI around by wrapper scripts bundled as PowerPacks.  In a default install, you’ll find PowerPacks loaded  for managing your Local System and AD, etc.,   A PowerPack will usually contains Nodes and Actions which are built up of PowerShell Cmdlets or scripts.  These nodes can be arranged in any fashion.   Create a New > Folder > give it a name > […]

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PowerShell, VMware

Enabling Copy/Paste support for VMs on VMware via PowerCLI

Notes: You need to have your VM restarted for these changes to take effect. This will only allow text to be copy/pasted This will NOT allow you to copy/paste files/folders I you have access to the VMs by IP (that is they are in the same or allowed networks from your PC network), then you could do either via file share/RDP protocols.  Otherwise the only way to allow copy/paste of file/folders across vSphere VMs is to create  an ISO image containing all the files that you need, upload it to the vSphere DataStore and mount that ISO as CD Image […]

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