VMware CMYT PodCast – With Jatin Purohit

Check out my latest podcast at VMware Community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WYNVwUUdms

The vSphere DSC – Just another perspective

vSphere DSC is an open-source module that provides PowerShell DSC resources for VMware. PowerShell DSC resources follow declarative code style, like most configuration management tools and allows you to document infrastructure configurations.

Introduction to vSphere DSC

vSphere DSC is a PowerShell based module for Desired State Configuration.

Decrypt PSCredential object password and it’s applications

Hello Everyone, I feel it's no more a secret that you can decrypt PSCredential Object and read/get the password in plain text. Wait..., I do not know what is PSCredntial object, This is what you must be thinking. I feel you stumble upon PSCredential object if you do basic PowerShell for system administration. Get-Credential is the cmdlet …

PsTK1: Getting Started with ‘NetApp PowerShell Toolkit’

Welcome back, As promised earlier, I am back with the new blog series. So let's get started. Note: From, Hereon I will be using abbreviation PSTK for 'NetApp PowerShell ToolKit', as the same has been referred on NetApp documentation as well. What is Netapp PowerShell ToolKit?  NetApp PowerShell Tool Kit (PSTK) is a PowerShell Toolkit …

PSProvider and VMware datastore – PowerCLI

Hello everyone, I am writing this short blog after a long time. While explaining in-out of PowerShell to some of my friends in person, I discussed about PSProviders. Most of the knowledge about PSProvider is information only and as a script writer we dont really bother about how powershell is playing with different resources (Variable/function/Filesystem/Registery …

Install-Module -Name VMware.Powercli, behind the proxies!

Install PowerCLI on Powershell v5

VMUG Pune: PowerCLI

it automation - powercli

Automate VMFS6 Upgrade – Update-VMfsdatastore cmdlet

By now you must be switching onto vSphere 6.5. During this time you would have also figured it out that there is no online upgrade for VMFS5 to VMFS6, which means that there is a little bit of planning would require to upgrade your VMFS datastores to VMFS6 version. As of now, the most common …

Setting Up VSCode for PowerShell in 3 easy step

Recently I have switched from PowerShell ISE to VSCode for script development. I was very comfortable with PowerShell ISE except it's "intellisense" feature which used to hang my system a lot. Switching to VSCode certainly improved my development experience and gave me a better tool for debugging and testing my Powershell scripts. VSCode is an open-source …