Category Archives: Virtualisation

PowerShell Direct example

Posted on Friday 8 July 2016 by richardsiddaway

Last week I mentioned PowerShell and how you can create a PowerShell Remoting session to a Virtual Machine that’s running on Hyper-V Here’s an example of it in use: $cred = Get-Credential W16TP5TGT01\Administrator$s = New-PSSession -VMName W16TP5TGT01 -Credential $cred Create … Continue reading →

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Installing Centos in Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V

Posted on Sunday 10 August 2014 by richardsiddaway

I need to create a virtual machine with CentOS 6.5 as the guest OS. I clicked through creating the VM and discovered that the install wouldn’t work. Eventually tracked down the issues. Keep the following points in mind as you … Continue reading →

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Creating Virtual machines #1: Creating the VM

Posted on Wednesday 12 December 2012 by richardsiddaway

I’ve had two projects in mind for a while.  First I need to build a new WSUS server in my virtual environment & secondly I want to automate as much of the VM creation and configuration as possible. Oh – … Continue reading →

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UK PowerShell Group–November Recording

Posted on Sunday 4 December 2011 by richardsiddaway

The November meeting http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/11/05/powershell-user-group-22-november.aspx was “What’s new in PowerCLI 5?” presented by Jonathan Medd The recording of Jonathan’s presentation is available from https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=43CFA46A74CF3E96&id=43CFA46A74CF3E96%212929 Jonathan’s slides are available from http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2011/11/whats-new-in-powercli-5-0-slides-from-uk-powershell-usergroup.html   Enjoy

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UK PowerShell Group November–reminder

Posted on Monday 21 November 2011 by richardsiddaway

UK PowerShell Group meeting – Jonathan Medd on “Whats new in PowerCLI 5” details from http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2011/11/05/powershell-user-group-22-november.aspx

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Swapping virtual switches

Posted on Monday 14 November 2011 by richardsiddaway

Virtualisation is a great technique for creating demo labs. I took my laptop with a bunch of VMs of Windows 8/Server 8 to the PowerShell Deep Dive.  Normally I run my “server” laptop and my development laptop on a switch … Continue reading →

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Networking pains

Posted on Sunday 26 June 2011 by richardsiddaway

Last week my wireless router decided that it had enough and wasn’t going to work any more. This was annoying because I was due to give a user group presentation that night. I got a new router up and working … Continue reading →

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PowerShell and VMware book

Posted on Friday 1 April 2011 by richardsiddaway

My good friends Jonathan Medd and Alan Renouf (together with a number of co-authors) have just had their book “VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration” published. More details on the book contents and for a chance to win a … Continue reading →

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