- Learning PowerCLI Second Edition
- Learning PowerCLI Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Customer Feedback
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to PowerCLI
- Downloading and installing PowerCLI
- Participating in the VMware Customer Improvement Program
- Modifying the PowerShell execution policy
- Creating a PowerShell profile
- Connecting and disconnecting servers
- Using the credential store
- Retrieving a list of all of your virtual machines
- Retrieving a list of all of your hosts
- Summary
- 2. Learning Basic PowerCLI Concepts
- 3. Working with Objects in PowerShell
- 4. Managing vSphere Hosts with PowerCLI
- Adding hosts to a VMware vCenter Server
- Enabling and disabling maintenance mode
- Working with host profiles
- Working with host services
- Configuring the host firewall
- Using vSphere Image Builder and Auto Deploy
- Using Image Builder
- Adding ESXi software depots to your PowerCLI session
- Retrieving the ESXi software depots added to your PowerCLI session
- Retrieving the image profiles in your PowerCLI session
- Creating image profiles
- Retrieving VIB objects from all of the connected depots
- Adding VIBs to an image profile or updating existing VIBs
- Exporting an image profile to an ISO or ZIP file
- Configuring Auto Deploy
- Using Image Builder
- Using esxcli from PowerCLI
- Removing hosts from a VMware vCenter Server
- Summary
- 5. Managing Virtual Machines with PowerCLI
- Creating virtual machines
- Registering virtual machines
- Using OS customization specifications
- Importing OVF or OVA packages
- Starting and stopping virtual machines
- Modifying the settings of virtual machines
- Converting virtual machines into templates
- Moving virtual machines to another folder, host, cluster, resource pool, or datastore
- Updating VMware Tools
- Upgrading virtual machine compatibility
- Using snapshots
- Running commands in the guest OS
- Configuring Fault Tolerance
- Opening the console of virtual machines
- Removing virtual machines
- Using tags
- Summary
- 6. Managing Virtual Networks with PowerCLI
- Using vSphere Standard Switches
- Using host network adapters
- Using standard port groups
- Using vSphere Distributed Switches
- Creating vSphere Distributed Switches
- Retrieving vSphere Distributed Switches
- Configuring vSphere Distributed Switches
- Adding hosts to vSphere Distributed Switches
- Retrieving hosts connected to vSphere Distributed Switches
- Adding host physical network adapters to a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Removing host physical network adapters from a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Removing hosts from a vSphere Distributed Switch
- Exporting the configuration of vSphere Distributed Switches
- Removing vSphere Distributed Switches
- Using distributed virtual port groups
- Creating distributed virtual port groups
- Retrieving distributed virtual port groups
- Modifying distributed virtual port groups
- Configuring network I/O control
- Exporting the configuration of distributed virtual port groups
- Migrating a host network adapter from a standard port group to a distributed port group
- Removing distributed virtual port groups
- Configuring host networking
- Configuring the network of virtual machines
- Summary
- 7. Managing Storage
- Rescanning for new storage devices
- Creating datastores
- Retrieving datastores
- Setting the multipathing policy
- Configuring vmhba paths to an SCSI device
- Working with Raw Device Mappings
- Configuring storage I/O control
- Configuring Storage DRS
- Upgrading datastores to VMFS-5
- Removing datastores
- Using VMware vSAN
- Configuring VMware vSAN networking
- Enabling VMware vSAN on vSphere clusters
- Retrieving the devices available for VMware vSAN
- Creating VMware vSAN disk groups
- Retrieving VMware vSAN disk groups
- Adding a host SCSI disk to a VMware vSAN disk group
- Retrieving the host disks that belong to a VMware vSAN disk group
- Removing disks from a VMware vSAN disk group
- Removing VMware vSAN disk groups
- Using vSphere storage policy-based management
- Retrieving storage capabilities
- Using tags to define storage capabilities
- Creating SPBM rules
- Creating SPBM rule sets
- Creating SPBM storage policies
- Retrieving SPBM storage policies
- Modifying SPBM storage policies
- Retrieving SPBM compatible storage
- Using SPBM to create virtual machines
- Retrieving SPBM-related configuration data of clusters, virtual machines, and hard disks
- Associating storage policies with virtual machines and hard disks and enabling SPBM on clusters
- Exporting SPBM storage policies
- Importing SPBM storage policies
- Removing SPBM storage policies
- Summary
- 8. Managing High Availability and Clustering
- Creating vSphere HA and DRS clusters
- Retrieving clusters
- Modifying the cluster settings
- Moving hosts to clusters
- Moving clusters
- Using DRS rules
- Using DRS recommendations
- Using resource pools
- Using Distributed Power Management
- Removing clusters
- Summary
- 9. Managing vCenter Server
- Working with roles and permissions
- Managing licenses
- Adding license keys to the license inventory
- Retrieving license keys from the license inventory
- Removing license keys from the license inventory
- Assigning licenses to hosts
- Retrieving assigned licenses
- Using the LicenseDataManager
- Configuring alarms
- Retrieving events
- Summary
- 10. Patching ESXi Hosts and Upgrading Virtual Machines
- Downloading new patches into the Update Manager repository
- Retrieving patches in the Update Manager repository
- Using baselines and baseline groups
- Testing inventory objects for compliance with baselines
- Retrieving baseline compliance data
- Initializing staging of patches
- Remediating inventory objects
- Summary
- 11. Managing VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Air
- Connecting to vCloud Air servers and vCloud Director servers
- Retrieving organizations
- Retrieving organization virtual datacenters
- Retrieving organization networks
- Retrieving vCloud users
- Using vCloud virtual appliances
- Managing vCloud virtual machines
- Using the vCloud Director API with Get-CIView
- Disconnecting from vCloud Director servers
- Summary
- 12. Using Site Recovery Manager
- Installing SRM
- Connecting to SRM servers
- Downloading and installing the Meadowcroft.SRM module
- Pairing SRM sites
- Retrieving the SRM user info
- Managing protection groups
- Protecting virtual machines
- Retrieving protected virtual machines
- Unprotecting virtual machines
- Managing recovery plans
- Disconnecting from SRM servers
- Summary
- 13. Using vRealize Operations Manager
- Connecting to vRealize Operations Manager servers
- Retrieving vRealize Operations Manager resource objects
- Using alerts
- Retrieving recommendations
- Retrieving statistic keys
- Retrieving statistical data
- Retrieving local user accounts
- Using the vRealize Operations Manager API
- Disconnecting from vRealize Operations Manager servers
- Summary
- 14. Using REST API to manage NSX and vRealize Automation
- 15. Reporting with PowerCLI
This book is written for VMware vSphere administrators who want to automate their vSphere environment using PowerCLI. It is assumed that you have at least a basic knowledge of VMware vSphere. If you are not a vSphere administrator, but you are interested in learning more about PowerCLI, then this book will also give you some basic knowledge of vSphere.
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