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PowerCLI Cookbook

Over 75 step-by-step recipes to put PowerCLI into action for efficient administration of your virtual environment

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you are a virtualization professional who wants to unleash the power of automation and combat the complexity of sprawling virtual environments, this book is ideal for you. This book will enhance your skills of administering VMware vSphere and vCloud Director with PowerCLI.

    What you will learn

    • Configure and administer VMware ESXi hosts, clusters, and vCenter Manage virtual machine configurations and operations Administer datastores, datastore clusters, and virtual machine snapshots Create and configure virtual networking in a vSphere environment Manage cluster features and affinity groups Make custom reports and notifications from vSphere Direct operations in vCloud Director

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Configuration the basic settings of an ESXi host with PowerCLI
    2. Configuring vCenter and compute clusters
    3. Managing virtual machines
    4. Working with Datastores and Datastore Clusters
    5. Creating and managing snapshots from PowerCLI
    6. Managing resource pools, reservations and limits for virtual machines
    7. Creating custom reports and notifications for vSphere
    8. Performing In-Guest Operations with PowerCLI
    9. Managing DRS and affinity groups using VMware VIM objects
    10. Working with vCloud Director from PowerCLI
    11. Appendix
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78439-106-5
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 274