This morning I presented the “Managing VMware vSphere 4 with The Virtualization EcoShell” session for an audience of 200+ people at the Dutch VMUG event in Nieuwegein. The total number of attendees is over 600!!! Here’s a copy of my slide deck.

1. Managing VMware vSphere 4 with The Virtualization EcoShell Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL Scott Herold - Quest Software

2. Introduction VMware Certified Instructor Freelance consultant Blogger @ NTPRO.NL

3. Agenda About The Virtualization EcoShell Getting Started Task Automation Administrative Reports and Charts Best Practice Filters PowerPacks Daily Report (vCheck) Demo Twitter Aliases Upcoming Features - Scott Herold

4. Agenda

5. About the Virtualization EcoShell The goal of the Virtualization EcoShell is to provide a freeware desktop application for novice and expert IT administrators leveraging Windows PowerShell scripts across their multi-platform virtual environments.

6. About the Virtualization EcoShell Gather information from many sources Filterjust the data you want Remediate and take action against your environment Reportthe data how you want it Integrateand extend your capabilities

7. The EcoShell Console

8. Task Automation Reduce errors from manual processes across multiple areas of responsibility through the script-based administration of repetitive and complex tasks inherent in virtualization infrastructures.

9. Task Automation

10. Administrative Reports Provide pre-defined and customizable reports as well as automated maps without hassle in HTML, XML and CSV formats, including support for Microsoft Visio.

11. Administrative Reports

12. Administrative Reports

13. Administrative Reports

14. Powerful Script Assistance Cushion and ramp up script creation by exposing, analyzing and troubleshooting script output for common Windows PowerShell commands.

15. Powerful Script Assistance

16. Powerful Script Assistance

17. Charts The Chart tab in the Grid enables you to create customized charts. You can select different types like Area, Column, Doughnut, Line, Scatter, Stacked Area and Stacked Column. The horizontal axes labels hold the category and can be fed by everything that’s measurable.

18. Charts

19. Charts

20. Custom Filters You can adjust the Property, Operator and a Value in a filter and just present the data you want. NIC count Operating system Power State Memory DNS Name

21. Custom Filters

22. These filters allows you to easily perform daily checks of common faulty configuration issues like a Snapshot hunter, VMs with CD-ROM Connected and Hosts with NIC at Half Duplex. Best Practice Filters

23. Best Practice Filters

24. Best Practice Filters

25. PowerPack Management A PowerPack is a collection of PowerShell scripts that are used to extend the Virtualization EcoShell administrative console. These scripts are stored inside of nodes, links or actions all of which are used to add functionality into the console.

26. PowerPack Management

27. PowerPack ~> Virtu-Al.net Scripts

28. Daily Report (vCheck) This script picks on the key areas of the virtual infrastructure and reports it all in a nice HTML page, so all you have do in the morning is take a look at the vCheck.

29. Daily Report (vCheck)

30. Getting Started Virtualization EcoShell (thevesi.org) Windows PowerShell VMware PowerCLI

32. Managed Hosts

34. High CPU ready values

35. Demo

36. Books vSphere Quick Start Guide Dave, Duncan, Bernie, Thomas, Stewart and Alan Renouf Managing VMware Infrastructure With Windows PowerShell Hal Rottenberg VMware VI and vSphere SDK Steve Jin

38. Alan Renouf @alanrenouf

39. Hal Rottenberg@halr9000

40. Luc Dekens @LucD22

41. Dmitry Sotnikov @Dsotnikov

42. Hugo Peeters @hugopeeters

43. Arne Fokkema @afokkema

44. Eric Sloof @esloof