Using PowerShell to clean up DHCP and DNS for VDI

When you run a virtual desktop infrastructure that builds and deletes hundreds of virtual machines every day, DHCP and DNS might eventually get out of sync and need some cleanup. When writing this PowerShell cleanup script, I decided to make vCenter my source of truth because has the virtual machine host names, IP addresses, power …

Load PowerCLI into the PowerShell session as a module

Last year, VMware wrote about “PowerCLI 6.0 – Introducing PowerCLI Modules.” Although I’ve been using PowerCLI 6.0 since then, I missed the note from Alan Renouf that made it easy to load all of the PowerCLI functionality into a PowerShell session as a module instead of having to launch PowerCLI. Here was his tip/trick: 1 …