I'm sure that someone somewhere has written a script exactly like this in the past but I wanted to write my own for a number of reasons. While I'll probably never be a PowerCLI hero, it really doesn't hurt to keep in practice and hone your skills. Let's start with what I want to accomplish. I'm working with an ESX 3.5 web hosting environment and there's a new project in the pipelines. A brace of new servers are required and they'll be on a new VLAN. The VLAN has been created and configured on the various switches that the…
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So you've installed Windows Server 2008 Core, you don't use DHCP and you want to get the thing on the network. I keep forgetting how to do this so I thought I'd create this post to help me remember! I'm assuming that you've got as far as changing the administrator password and logging in. The next step is as easy as typing a few commands into the plain black window you see in front of you. For this example, let's assume that we want the server to have the following network configuration: HOSTNAME: win2008core IP ADDRESS: 10.1.5.16…