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 …

vSphere 7.0 : DRS Re-Designed

Although vsphere 7.0 is a major enhancement in itself with lots of new features added like Kubernetes (Project Pacific), vCenter Server Profiles, vsphere Lifecycle Manager(vLCM), Certificate Management, Refactored vMotion etc. But the one that caught my eye and is completely re-designed after a span of 15 years is DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler). How DRS used …

Set SCSI controllers to a VM HDD: vRO workflow

Hello All, SQL servers on VMware infrastructure need to be built as per recommended guidelines. One of the major recommendations is to have specific SCSI controllers assigned to data HDD of a SQL server. The idea here is to have dedicated SCSI controllers for each data disk so that it does not pass all the …

Welcome, vSphere7 and Tanzu mission control

We all were waiting for this day, Today VMware has announced a few major products with a single objective and that is to fule app modernization. There is no secret what these products are. Yes, you got it right. These are vSphere7, Tanzu Mission Control, and VCF4.0. Please find a brief overview of these new …

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 …

Coming Soon: Blog Series, Netapp PowerShell Toolkit

Hello Everyone, I used to consider myself a VMware engineer rather than anything else. Even though my core expertise was from the VMware Compute domain, I understood well in advance that if I want to be a good VMware engineer than I must also work on the Storage and Network piece of infrastructure. In 2019, …

VMUG Pune: PowerShell DSC, vSphere DSC Module

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

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