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    Use Git with Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code is a great PowerShell development platform and since moving off of PowerShell ISE, I can say that I haven’t really looked back since making the move.  Visual Studio Code provides tight integration with Git so it is…

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    Migrate from Powershell ISE to Visual Studio Code

    Most that code in PowerShell are most likely familiar with the PowerShell ISE. The Powershell ISE has been included since PowerShell 2.0 and definitely was/has been the go to tool for editing and writing Powershell code. If you are like…

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    Automate Veeam Restores Using PowerShell

    One of the powerful things that Veeam offers is the ability to use PowerShell to both backup and restore virtual machines.  This makes for great ways to automate tasks either backups or restores, or even other jobs via the PowerShell…

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    Install VMware Pester PowerCLI Configuration Management

    PowerShell can do so many cool things for us not just from an automation standpoint but also from a configuration management standpoint.  I wanted to help give some visibility to a great bit of PowerShell PowerCLI code called Vester that…

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    Automate vSwitch and VMkernel configuration VMware PowerCLI

    As we have already detailed in this post about how we can configure VMware clusters with PowerCLI and the benefits of doing so, the sky is the limit in what we can do with VMware PowerCLI and automating configuration processes…

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    VMware PowerCLI 6.5.1 New Way to Install

    If you haven’t updated your VMware PowerCLI installation in a while, you will be interested to know there is a new way to install VMware PowerCLI.  With the release of VMware PowerCLI 6.5.1, we can now pull the PowerShell module…

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    Configure VMware vSphere Cluster with Web Client or PowerCLI

    As powerful as VMware ESXi is out of the box in a standalone single server format, we really don’t get all the benefits of running a hypervisor in a single server standalone configuration. The real power with VMware vSphere comes…

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    Veeam Powershell Automatically Add Backup Jobs

    One of the great things with Veeam Backup & Replication is the integration with PowerShell and the ability to automate many of the job options using PowerShell.  This is extremely handy when it comes to mass creating Veeam jobs in…

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    VMware PowerCLI Add Harddisk and Attach to Paravirtual Controller

    There are certainly performance benefits to using the VMware ParaVirtual controller, especially in extreme load conditions.  According to VMware’s own documentation, the PVSCSI controller provides 8% better throughput at 10% lower CPU cost.  There are also performance benefits to use…

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    Automatically add corresponding Veeam backup copy and replication jobs with Powershell

    I had written just a few days ago about a PowerShell script to compare Veeam copy or replication jobs to the regular backup jobs you have setup and see which ones are missing.  This is useful if you have single…