While trying to install Chocolately on my Server 2008 R2 Core boxes, I ran into an issue where the .NET 4.0 download would fail repeatedly - "webpicmdline.exe has stopped working". No worries! I already had WinRM enabled, so I looked around for a Windows equivalent of scp so
I rely pretty heavily upon PowerShell profiles to make my life easier. Similar to how you can use .bashrc to set aliases, define basic functions, and change your default prompt - Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 located in the %userprofile\Documents\WindowsPowerShell folder can alter your running powershell.exe environment. Auto-Loading
Usage meter is a rather ugly piece of VMware software whose sole purpose is to monitor memory allocation and reservations. It is tied to licensing costs for some implementations (e.g. Service Providers). Unfortunately, it's also a major PITA to use. Luckily, there is an API! As we have several
It's easy to go from vCloud to vCenter: link Not so much from vCenter to vCloud... Here's a function I came upon in the #vmware channel on freenode to relate vCenter VMs to vCloud VMs using PowerCLI: function Get-CIVMfromVM { <# .SYNOPSIS Converts a vCenter VM Object into a vCloud VM