Eric Sloof

I added a little gimmick to my Resource Pool script. It actually talks to you, and tell you what’s selected,  after hitting the exit button you’ll receive greetings from Eric Sloof. :-)  SAPI is short for Speech Application Programming Interface (Speech API). SAPI is built into Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Vista; if you’re running either of those operating systems then you already have everything you need to add voice and sound effects to your PowerShell scripts. Just paste the following code at your PowerShell prompt.

$Voice = New-Object -com SAPI.SpVoice
$Voice.Speak( "The resource pool is adjusted", 1 )

This Dynamic Resource Pool Calculator recalculates all your resource pools. Depending on the number of virtual machines per resource pool, the number of reservations for memory and CPU is automatically lifted after running the Dynamic Resource Pool Calculator. The script also respects the existing individual virtual machine reservations and adds those value’s to the total RP sum.

When a virtual machine doesn’t have a reservation, the virtual machine memory is used to calculate the Resource Pool reservation. When the $MemFactor is 2, the virtual machine memory is divided by 2. This means a Virtual machine with 1024 MB lifts the Resource Pool reservation with 512 MB. The $CPUFactor is multiplied by the number of CPU’s. This means a virtual machine with 2 CPU ‘s will create a lift of 1024 MHz on the Resource Pool.

This script can present a GUI to the end user or can be run interactive from the PS command line. If no arguments are specified, the GUI starts. If a resource pool is passed as an argument, this resource pool will be processed without the GUI.

Admin Guide

Demo Movie

DRPC-Script.ps1

VMware has challenged the world’s VI administrators to a contest of skill, creativity and raw scripting talent. I submitted a script to the VMware Infrastructure Toolkit (for Windows) Scripting Contest and hope to make a chance at winning a great price in this contest.

• First Prize: Airfare, hotel and admission to VMworld 2008 Las Vegas or $5,000 USD Cash Prize
• Second Prize: Macbook Air with VMware Fusion or $2,500 USD
• Third Prize: Xbox 360 Elite or $500 USD

At August 30, 2008, 11:59pm PST the contest was closed so I uploaded my final version of the Resource Pool Calculator yesterday evening. The following list shows you who the 23 contesters are and what amazing scripts they’ve created.

• LucD - Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)
• tzamora - Vmware Infraestructure Power Documenter
• esloof - Dynamic Resource Pool Calculator
• rt7500 - VI-Cluster-Audit
• Kyle Weir - VM Service Report v1.0
• GordonG - Virtual Machine Failover
• shambo - PowerAlarm Manager
• rsgqjj - Get-VIReports
• Adidas6 - Virtual Environment Overview Report
• slx86 - clonevdi
• ibeerens - VMware Healthcheck script
• dbbaskette - powerVDI
• CSummers311 - Rescan HBAs
• olan025 ESXi - Builder
• Jonwalz - Get-VDMData
• justingrote - Create Disaster Recovery Hard Drive
• tobru - VCB Backup Script
• ITS_TDT - Business Continuity Roll over Script
• RobMokkink - Deploy VM's based on a template from a .csv
• alanrenouf - Report into MS Word
• MorDrakka - Find Orphaned VMDK's
• hugopeeters - Get-StorageInfo 85
• ewmccarty - function destroy-network
• RobMokkink - Add/Remove active directory user accounts
• ewmccarty - Shutdown VM in specific Resource Pools
• Chris Uys - Find snapshots and send email
• RobMokkink - HBA Loadbalance script

They really did a great job and posted high quality scripts. VMware plans to announce prizewinners on September 7th, 2008 in the VMTN forums. The judges are:

VMware representative: Antonio Dias, Architect; Carter Shanklin, Product Manager
Industry representative: Lee Holmes and Bruce Payette
Community representative: Hal Rottenberg; Automation Engineer

Create your own VMworld 2008 Las Vegas Flickr badge. You will be able to select to display things from your own collection, one of your groups, or everyone's uploads. You can also filter any of these options by a tag, if you wish.

www.flickr.com More in VMworld 2008 Las Vegas pool

The VMworld Flickr Group provides a great way to swap your VMworld stories and photos. The VMworld Flickr Group is much the same as other Groups you can join online. Flickr Groups are places where people of similar interests meet to exchange ideas and stories. At this Flickr Group, you also can follow other VMworld 2008 fanatics who are visiting Las Vegas.

During the transfer of VM4All.COM to another provider, there went something wrong. I hope to have the site up and running at the beginning of next week. More and more people are writing software based on the SDK and created a lot of little handy tools. On the other side there are some larger company’s who also created all kinds of applications to support VMware ESX server and Virtual Center. The vm4all.com website provides a complete list of all these tools and applications.

Get resources for software development and scripting, including VMware SDK and API downloads, documentation, sample code, and webinars. Participate in online discussions with fellow programmers and scripters from VMware and the community.

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Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell over at Sysinternals created Desktops v1.0. Desktops allows you to organize your applications on up to four virtual desktops. Read email on one, browse the web on the second, and do work in your productivity software on the third, without the clutter of the windows you’re not using. After you configure hotkeys for switching desktops, you can create and switch desktops either by clicking on the tray icon to open a desktop preview and switching window, or by using the hotkeys. Run Desktops now from Live.Sysinternals.com

Twitter is an online service that enables you to broadcast short messages to your friends or "followers." It also lets you specify which Twitter users you want to follow so you can read their messages in one place. Twitter is designed to work on a mobile phone as well as on a computer. All Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters, so each message can be sent as a single SMS alert.

You can post to this "VMworld" feed from your Twitter account by posting:
d vmworld "message" (replace "message" with your text to display)

http://www.vmworld.com/vmworld/community/conference/twitter/

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