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Hal Rottenberg's Managing VMWare Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell is now available as pre-order from ScriptingOutpost.com

I follow Hal on Twitter and find his PowerShell and VMware knowledge inspiring, hopefully his book will help me master the black art of PowerShell and help me in my day to day VMware Infrastructure management as well.

Go order now, I know I will.

VMware has released the first beta version of their Infrastructure Toolkit. You can download it right now and start playing around with it. The beta consists of 102 Powershell cmdlets that covers most, if not all, aspects of administrating and scripting their Virtual Infrastructure.

I haven't played around with it yet, but I have a few tasks I definately want to script using the toolkit. Check our the VMware Communities site for more details and discussions.

Scripting snapshot based VM backups to secondary storage, perhaps iSCSI based, is on my todo list for work right now. I'll have to look at that when I return to work over the easter holidays.

Windows PowerShell 2.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) has been made generally available for testing purposes.

Bink has the details.

PowerGUI 1.0.11 has been released and can be downloaded from PowerGUI downloads page.

The editor looks really interesting!

Hello World seems to be the first post in the VI Powershell Blog and it looks like VMware are exploring the possibilities with creating a Powershell interface to VI3.

Come on, give us some cmdlets already!