vSphere PowerCLI : Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates) : Comments

RE: Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)

LucD — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:23:27 GMT

Please note that this is an early beta of v2 of this application.
Use it only in your test environments for now!

Comments, bug reports, suggestions are more than welcome.

RE: Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)

halr9000 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:28:57 GMT

Very nice! Comments:

datastore field should check for valid values by vmhost
the disk size dialog will accept a null size
the network dialog only sees one of my networks

RE: Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)

esloof — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:14:35 GMT

Mmmmm I hope your in time because the contest ends At August 30, 2008, 11:59pm PST

and not

Created on:31-aug-2008 2:30 by LucD - Last Modified: 31-aug-2008 3:17 by LucD

RE: Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)

esloof — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:31:14 GMT

Sorry, I just checked PST, and over there it's still Saturday.

RE: Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)

LucD — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:59:36 GMT

Yep, there is a 9 hours difference between CET and PST.
The community SW marks the local time of the user.

RE: Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)

esloof — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:12:50 GMT

Yes, my mistake, sorry about that. Nice script by the way. I was wondering when to expect one of your great contributions.

RE: Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)

LucD — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:06:56 GMT

1) I our setup we map all VMFS datastores to all VMHosts.
But it is a valid remark.
I will add that functionality.

2) I will add a validation function to fix the zero disk size shortly.

3) The list of available Virtual Machine Port Groups is based on a script that I entered in the VI Toolkit community.
See http://communities.vmware.com/message/1029208#1029208.
Does that return all the VM Port Groups correctly ?

RE: Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)

LucD — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:22:19 GMT

I received some questions about the development tools I used.

To avoid replying the same to each PM:

the Windows Forms part is done with the ScriptForm Designer in Admin Script Editor (see http://www.adminscripteditor.com)
script editing and debugging is done with PowerShellPlus (see http://powershell.com)

RE: Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)

alanrenouf — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:25:19 GMT

Just when we thought we had got away with it !

RE: Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)

esloof — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:33:50 GMT

Last week I posted an article about the Admin Scipt Editor on ntpro.nl, this tool also can create an exe from a PowerShell script.

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/597-The-iTripoli-Admin-Script-Editor-Rocks.html

RE: Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)

halr9000 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:48:24 GMT

We interviewed Steven Behrns from iTripoli on Episode 24.

http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/powerscripting-podcast-episode-24-admin-script-editor/

Author of the upcoming book: Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell
Co-Host, PowerScripting Podcast (http://powerscripting.net)