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PowerCLI Essentials

Simplify and automate server administration tasks with PowerCLI

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jul 2025
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Description

Simplify and automate server administration tasks with PowerCLI

Key Features

  • Automate VMware’s VSphere environment by learning the essentials of PowerCLI
  • Impress your peers by developing scripts to perform administration tasks
  • Discover the intricate workings of PowerCLI through simple and real-life examples

Book Description

Have you ever wished you could automatically get a report with all the relevant information about your VMware environments in exactly the format you want? Or that you could automate a crucial task that needs to be performed on a regular basis? Powerful Command Line Interface (PowerCLI) scripts do all these things and much more for VMware environments. PowerCLI is a command-line interface tool used to automate VMware vSphere environments. It is used to handle complicated administration tasks through use of various cmdlets and scripts, which are designed to handle certain aspects of VSphere servers and to help you manage them.

This book will show you the intricacies of PowerCLI through real-life examples so that you can discover the art of PowerCLI scripting. At the start, you will be taught to download and install PowerCLI and will learn about the different versions of it. Moving further, you will be introduced to the GUI of PowerCLI and will find out how to develop single line scripts to duplicate running tasks, produce simple reports, and simplify administration. Next, you will learn about the methods available to get information remotely. Towards the end, you will be taught to set up orchestrator and build workflows in PowerShell with update manager and SRM scripts.

What you will learn

  • Download and install PowerCLI and its basics as well as the basics of PowerShell
  • Enchance your scritping experience
  • Build longer scripts and simpler reports
  • Relate a task in VMware administration to a PowerCLI script
  • Discover methods to acquire and change information remotely
  • Set up orchestrator to manage your workflow

Who this book is for

PowerCLI Essentials is focused toward virtualization professionals and system administrators who want to discover and learn about the automation techniques associated with PowerCLI for complex virtual environments.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction to essential administration with PowerCLI
  2. Comparing Point and Click Administration to PowerCLI and scripting
  3. Enhancing the scripting experience
  4. Windows Administration within VMware Administration
  5. Workflows and integrating vRealize Orchestrator
  6. Running workflows with other VMware products
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78588-510-5
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 194
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Computer sciences, other

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