VI Toolkit (for Windows) 1.0 Beta

Why, hello there…  I’m not sure why I didn’t blog about this sooner.  But, as I mentioned several months ago, VMWare was working on a PowerShell based VI toolkit.  Needless to say, an CCO internal newsletter entry that was written by Pete (an author on the V2 version of our book) reminded me that I should yet again talk about the toolkit.

Anyhow… VMWare announced several weeks ago that the beta release of their VI Toolkit (for Windows) 1.0 was available for download: Link  With 102 cmdlets, which allow you to manage VMware ESX or VMware VirtualCenter, this toolkit is a nice addition to the growing PowerShell portfolio of cool stuff.

I.E. take a VM snapshot using the following command:

Get-VM | % { New-Snapshot -VM $_ -Name ($_.name + “-current”) }