Here's a cool resource for PowerShell newbies (and who these days isn't at least dabbling with Microsoft's young scripting language?): the Get-Scripting podcast. The podcast is up to Episode 6 in its ongoing series on How to Learn PowerShell. Episode 6 features Ben Pearce, a premier field engineer at Microsoft whose job is to help enterprise customers make their systems more efficient.
Poke around the site and you'll find links to lots of free scripts from around the Web and numerous other resources. For instance, thanks to the personal blog of Alan Renouf, one half of the Get-Scripting podcast duo, we found links to a nifty script that helps you remove Microsoft's Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager from VMware if you perchance tried to manage VMware with SCVMM (as Microsoft wants you to do, according to Mike Neil, general manager of Microsoft virtualization). If you change your mind after installing SCVMM and try to remove it, it will resist. The PowerShell script comes from a post in the VCritical blog, written by an anonymous employee from VMware. VCritical says:
"Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 makes several changes to your vCenter environment that you may like to know about, especially since they don’t seem to be mentioned in the product documentation. It’s also worth pointing out that none of these changes are reverted when you subsequently decide to discontinue managing vCenter with SCVMM."
We note the irony that a VMware peep chose PowerShell as the preferred method to remove SCVMM from vCenter. Whatever you think of Microsoft's systems management software, PowerShell is looking more and more like it has arrived.
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Why ironic?
Why ironic? We're not fans of Hyper-V, but we love PowerShell. vCenter and VI Client run on Windows. See also the VI Toolkit (for Windows), aka the PowerShell Toolkit: http:/www.vmware.com/go/powershell
Also, vCritical is run by Eric Gray. Glad you enjoyed the blog!
Not ironic
I deal with this sentiment a lot and I don't think it makes sense. No one ever notes the "irony" of VMware using Java, though Sun is also a competitor of VMware. PowerShell is a good tool, so we use it.
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