Define and create VI guests based on templates. The application allows an authorized user to define and create one or more guests in a VI environment. By default the application presents the user a Windows Forms based dialog. To allow for scheduling the creation of the guests the application can be run in CMD-mode. In other words no Windows Forms are used. For further info see the Word doc in the ZIP file.
Very nice! Comments:
Mmmmm I hope your in time because the contest ends At August 30, 2008, 11:59pm PST
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Created on:31-aug-2008 2:30 by LucD - Last Modified: 31-aug-2008 3:17 by LucD
Sorry, I just checked PST, and over there it's still Saturday.
Yep, there is a 9 hours difference between CET and PST.
The community SW marks the local time of the user.
Yes, my mistake, sorry about that. Nice script by the way. I was wondering when to expect one of your great contributions.
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 ?
I received some questions about the development tools I used.
To avoid replying the same to each PM:
Just when we thought we had got away with it !
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
We interviewed Steven Behrns from iTripoli on Episode 24.
http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/powerscripting-podcast-episode-24-admin-script-editor/
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.