Thursday, February 5. 2009
Lanamark Suite 2009 Adds Support for Profiling ESX
Meet with Regional VMware Sales Leaders
At VMware Partner Exchange 2009 you will be given an opportunity to meet face-to-face with the VMware Sales Executives and team members. On Tuesday, April 14, get first-hand information on go-to market strategies in your region. VMware Area Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents of the Americas Commercial Sales and Partner Directors will present and be available to answer your questions.
VMware Partner Exchange will take place April 14-16, 2009 in Orlando, Florida. Check out the official VMware Partner Exchange website for more information.
Wednesday, February 4. 2009
Eavesdrop your VI-Client traffic
This afternoon, I was jammed in traffic again. Luckily I burned the MP3 of the PowerScripting Podcast with Carter Shanklin on a CD and listened to the broadcast in my car. At one point Carter was referring to a new verbose logging option which enables you to intercept the soap traffic between you VI-Client and the vCenter server. This gives you the opportunity to find out how to call the really advanced stuff from PowerShell. Carter used it to fix a bug in a resize command-let. When I finally got home, I had to find out the command options and was staring at one of the most beautiful log files I ever saw, it’s brilliant.
Just start your VI-Client with the following options and you will receive massive output.
VpxClient.exe -log +sd
You can find the log files here: C:\Users\Eric Sloof\AppData\Local\VMware\vpx vi-client.txt
Tuesday, February 3. 2009
PowerShellPlus v2.1 Beta is live!
PowerShellPlus v2.1 Beta is live and publicly available! here's the exciting information about an early look at what the PowerShellPlus team has been working on. PowerShellPlus version 2.1 introduces several new and cool features focused on reducing the PowerShell learning curve, increasing the productivity of PowerShell development and exercising the capabilities of PowerShell 2.0. The new features include:
- Code sharing – Enables you to leverage the wealth of scripts that reside in the PowerShell.com and PoshCode.org libraries. Increase your productivity by quickly and easily searching and grabbing the scripts from those libraries. You can also submit your own scripts to the PowerShell.com library directly from PowerShell Plus Editor
- Visual Basic support – The PowerShell Plus Editor can now edit and run Visual Basic scripts
- STA mode support – Enables you to produce pretty cool looking GUI’s with Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) using PowerShell 2.0.
- PowerShell Assembly Detection – Gives the Learning Center an auto-upgrade path if PowerShell v2 CTP3 is detected and then displays the most up-to-date information
- Learning Center Auto-Load - Makes searching for a request with a single match much easier to use since the topic will load automatically, saving extra keystrokes
- Cmdlet parameter position – Shows you additional information in the code completion popup window about parameters including position and type
- Console size overlay – Shows you the height and width of the Console when you resize it
- Additional Sample Scripts - Active Directory, IIS 7.0 and MySQL
- PowerShell v2 CTP3 Support – Including Block Comments and the $Profile variable
VMware Announces First Open Source Virtual Desktop Client
I’m on the VMworld Europe VMTN Panel
Duncan Epping of Yellow Bricks fame
Alan Renouf of powershell fame
Steve Beaver of Tripwire
Eric Sloof of NTPRO.NL
Tom Howarth The community King and the driving force behind PlanetVM.