While I am in the mood for reviewing the goodies from the PowerGUI extensions library, here’s another useful pack for VMware users – LabManager PowerPack by Mark Kilfoil.
You can use it to bulk-manage LabManager workspaces and perform various actions on the machines: Power On, Power Off, Suspend, Resume, Reset, Snapshot, Revert, Shut Down, and even open Remote Desktop Session.
The cool thing about the pack (besides its usefulness :)) is that LabManager as it is does not actually expose PowerShell cmdlets. Instead Mark is using remote web-service SOAP interface from his PowerShell code. Because all PowerGUI packs are open source – just XML files with PowerShell code publicly posted in the library – there’s quite some code in this pack to learn a few tricks here.
The LabManager pack is available here.
Tags: Examples, PowerGUI, PowerPack, PowerShell, VMware
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