Have you mastered PowerShell yet? Microsoft’s command-line shell and scripting language can make your life considerably easier by automating common administration tasks. It can be used in VMware ...

While not as popular a term as virtualization, PowerShell is starting to find its own place in this virtual world. For those not familiar with the technology, PowerShell was created by Microsoft as an ...

A little birdie told me this today. Well, actually his name is Dmitry. Anyhow, I never thought that I would see the day. I know people have been managing VMware infrastructure with some custom ...

When choosing to administer VMware-based virtual machines (VMs), administrators have a few decisions to make when prepping their bare-metal hosts and configuring the guest OSes, the storage spaces, ...

Amazon Web Services and VMware as Microsoft launch partners? You read it right. As part of its move toward more openness, Microsoft today said its popular and powerful PowerShell command-line ...

I need a scriptable way to reboot/reset VM's from a Linux box. We use Nagios to monitor our infrastructure. There are a couple of dozen VM's that run ancient Delphi based apps that require an ...