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Who wants converter cmdlets and why? posted: Oct 14, 2009 12:13 PM

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c_shanklin
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Dec 3, 2007
What do you want to do with converter cmdlets?

Large-scale P2V?
Automated backup?
Disaster recovery?
Other?

Thanks,

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Re: Who wants converter cmdlets and why?

1. Oct 14, 2009 12:22 PM in response to: c_shanklin
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Zsoldier
68 posts since
Sep 22, 2006
I'd like it for large-scale P2V's, but also so I can make my own Powershell forms so I can do something like hide datastores that do not or will not have enough free space remaining after the conversion.


K. Chris Nakagaki (Zsoldier)
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Re: Who wants converter cmdlets and why?

2. Oct 14, 2009 1:07 PM in response to: c_shanklin
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halr9000
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Jun 7, 2007
I'm going to be snarky and say because Microsoft has P2V cmdlets for Hyper-V.
And I like the DR idea as well.

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Re: Who wants converter cmdlets and why?

3. Oct 14, 2009 2:00 PM in response to: c_shanklin
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LucD
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Oct 31, 2005
I sure would like Converter cmdlets, principally for backups and DR (see Automating Converter Enterprise jobs with PS).
But are you going to make all possible options available as cmdlet parameters ?
Or will you keep the XML files that are currently used by the Converter ?
Would make the PS solution "portable" ;-)

Re: Who wants converter cmdlets and why?

4. Oct 14, 2009 6:37 PM in response to: LucD
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halr9000
813 posts since
Jun 7, 2007
FWIW, keeping with the Microsoft comparison, their P2V cmdlet is a beast. I am kinda favoring the idea of having an external file somehow. Maybe a conversion script and splatting would be a PowerShell way of doing it.






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Re: Who wants converter cmdlets and why?

5. Oct 15, 2009 12:48 AM in response to: c_shanklin
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alanrenouf
582 posts since
Feb 28, 2006

Here are some that would be nice:

  • Automated P2V's
  • Resetting VM IP addresses once they are over
  • Check status of P2Vs
  • DR
  • V2V for growing disks (partitions) etc

Thanks

Alan Renouf
http://virtu-al.net

Re: Who wants converter cmdlets and why?

6. Oct 15, 2009 6:30 AM in response to: c_shanklin
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aerodevil
24 posts since
Apr 13, 2009

Yes Please!

cmdlets for Large-Scale P2V would be fantastic. I'm in the middle of a pretty fair sized P2V project now and would love cmdlets to make my work easier.

DR would be a plus as well once that responsibility starts falling to me.

Josh Atwell
http://day2dayadmin.blogspot.com

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