Wow, have I been busy. In case you hadn’t noticed from my blog posts late last year and early this year, I’ve been working very hard at putting together multiple back-to-back updates for the VMware Infrastructure Management PowerPack for the past several months. This has involved working long hours with many thousands of lines of PowerShell script and figuring out how to do some really cool things with both PowerShell and VMware’s PowerCLI (formerly known as the VI Toolkit). The end result is always fulfulling, and I’m usually pretty good at setting up the really cool functionality so that I can leverage it in any PowerPack so all my hard work pays off in the long run.
A few weeks ago I finished off yet another update with some really cool new features, however this update isn’t available for the PowerGUI admin console just yet. That update is coming shortly after we release the next version of PowerGUI, which has some functionality that it is dependent on. If you can’t wait until then though, you can take a look at the new functionality now as part of the first public beta release of the Virtualization EcoShell that came out on April 15th.
What is the Virtualization EcoShell? The Virtualization EcoShell is a project started by Scott Herold that was designed to provide an administrative experience that is tailored for virtualization administrators. It is powered by PowerGUI and comes with a script editor and an admin console just like PowerGUI. The out of the box experience is different though because it doesn’t come with PowerPacks for Exchange and Active Directory. Instead it includes functionality that virtualization administrators care most about. At the moment this is simply the VMware Infrastructure Management PowerPack, but over time this will grow to include other virtualization-related administrative functionality (think: additional VMware features, functionality to work with virtualization platforms from other vendors, and capabilities to extend into important technologies surrounding virtualization such as storage).
If you want a preview of the next generation of the VMware Infrastructure Management PowerPack a little early as well as a look at a new virtualization administration platform, all you have to do is pop over to the Virtualization EcoShell site and download it. You can install and use it side-by-side with PowerGUI, so you won’t need any secondary systems or a VM to run it on either. Once you’ve taken a look, let us know what you think or what you would like to see next on the forums! Your feedback directly influences the features we add, and we’re listening!
Kirk out.
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