Comments on: Manage Multiple VMware ESXi servers for free—Only with PowerShell http://halr9000.com/article/612 (powershell & other stuff) Thu, 17 May 2012 06:21:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: halr9000 http://halr9000.com/article/612/comment-page-1#comment-7552 halr9000 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:01:53 +0000 http://halr9000.com/article/612#comment-7552 The behavior for how multiple servers are handled has changed in recent versions of the toolkit (now called PowerCLI). You don't really have to think about it, you just invoke connect-viserver multiple times and subsequent actions will apply to everything. The behavior for how multiple servers are handled has changed in recent versions of the toolkit (now called PowerCLI). You don’t really have to think about it, you just invoke connect-viserver multiple times and subsequent actions will apply to everything.

]]> By: Robert Furman http://halr9000.com/article/612/comment-page-1#comment-7546 Robert Furman Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:00:54 +0000 http://halr9000.com/article/612#comment-7546 This looks really promising. Being rather new to Powershell can someone explain just how are your ESX servers managed after this code is executed in PowerShell? Is the variable "$DefaultVIServer" read by VSphere/VMWare Infrastructure client when it is launched? Or is all the management done via PowerShell? Thanks, Robert This looks really promising. Being rather new to Powershell can someone explain just how are your ESX servers managed after this code is executed in PowerShell? Is the variable “$DefaultVIServer” read by VSphere/VMWare Infrastructure client when it is launched? Or is all the management done via PowerShell?

Thanks,

Robert

]]> By: Sam Johnston http://halr9000.com/article/612/comment-page-1#comment-6977 Sam Johnston Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:32:14 +0000 http://halr9000.com/article/612#comment-6977 Ok, that makes more sense as there were conflicting posts on this subject... anyway that's great news! Sam Ok, that makes more sense as there were conflicting posts on this subject… anyway that’s great news!

Sam

]]> By: halr9000 http://halr9000.com/article/612/comment-page-1#comment-6976 halr9000 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:15:30 +0000 http://halr9000.com/article/612#comment-6976 Actually I have news. With v3.5U3, they have removed all API restrisctions! See this article: http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvirtualization/2008/12/vmware-rcli-now-writes-to-esxi-free-hosts.html Actually I have news. With v3.5U3, they have removed all API restrisctions! See this article: http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvirtualization/2008/12/vmware-rcli-now-writes-to-esxi-free-hosts.html

]]> By: Sam Johnston http://halr9000.com/article/612/comment-page-1#comment-6975 Sam Johnston Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:19:29 +0000 http://halr9000.com/article/612#comment-6975 This got my attention, right up to the 'read only' spoiler... it's a pity VMware chose to hobble the API but without the luxury of virtualisation being an enabler (ala Citrix, Microsoft) rather than a core business I guess they have little choice. Hypervisors are all but commoditised now with Xen and it's derivatives, Hyper-V Server, etc. so I guess it's just a matter of time. Sam This got my attention, right up to the ‘read only’ spoiler… it’s a pity VMware chose to hobble the API but without the luxury of virtualisation being an enabler (ala Citrix, Microsoft) rather than a core business I guess they have little choice.

Hypervisors are all but commoditised now with Xen and it’s derivatives, Hyper-V Server, etc. so I guess it’s just a matter of time.

Sam

]]> By: halr9000 http://halr9000.com/article/612/comment-page-1#comment-6959 halr9000 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:27:26 +0000 http://halr9000.com/article/612#comment-6959 Well, it sounds like you are asking if ESXi has a local graphical console from which you can manage the VMs. If that is the case, then the answer is no. The same can be said of ESX, Windows Server 2008 w/Hyper-V in Server Core mode, as well as "Hyper-V Server" which believe it or not is an even further slimmed down version of Windows without a GUI but with a hypervisor. On the other hand, the performance differences will be pretty significant. VMware Server is very slow as compared to ESX or ESXi. Well, it sounds like you are asking if ESXi has a local graphical console from which you can manage the VMs. If that is the case, then the answer is no. The same can be said of ESX, Windows Server 2008 w/Hyper-V in Server Core mode, as well as “Hyper-V Server” which believe it or not is an even further slimmed down version of Windows without a GUI but with a hypervisor.

On the other hand, the performance differences will be pretty significant. VMware Server is very slow as compared to ESX or ESXi.

]]> By: Lawrence http://halr9000.com/article/612/comment-page-1#comment-6958 Lawrence Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:12:31 +0000 http://halr9000.com/article/612#comment-6958 Hi, I was wondering if you can remotely connect to the VMs from the same machine? One of the things I like about hyper-v (and vmware 2, virtual server) is that you do not need to connect to the VMs from another computer. In cases where we have only one machine this becomes a requirement. My grip with Hyper-v on Win 2008 Server Ent. is that it's just too CPU intensive. This is one of the questions I would like to have answers for prior to switching. thanks Lawrence Hi,

I was wondering if you can remotely connect to the VMs from the same machine?

One of the things I like about hyper-v (and vmware 2, virtual server) is that you do not need to connect to the VMs from another computer. In cases where we have only one machine this becomes a requirement. My grip with Hyper-v on Win 2008 Server Ent. is that it’s just too CPU intensive.

This is one of the questions I would like to have answers for prior to switching.
thanks
Lawrence

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