Learning PowerCLI

A comprehensive guide on PowerCLI

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Robert van den Nieuwendijk

Paid access

|Mar 2017

E-Book €32.99Institutions €132.95

Learn to leverage the power of PowerCLI to automate your VMware vSphere environment with ease

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This is first book on the market that will enlighten you on the latest version of PowerCLI and how to implement it
Effectively manage virtual machines, networks, and reports with the latest features of PowerCLI
A comprehensive and practical book on automating VMware vSphere

Book Description

VMware vSphere PowerCLI, a free extension to Microsoft Windows PowerShell, enables you to automate the management of a VMware vSphere or vCloud environment.
This book will show you how to automate your tasks and make your job easier. Starting with an introduction to the basics of PowerCLI, the book will teach you how to manage your vSphere and vCloud infrastructure from the command line. To help you manage a vSphere host overall, you will learn how to manage vSphere ESXi hosts, host profiles, host services, host firewall, and deploy and upgrade ESXi hosts using Image Builder and Auto Deploy. The next chapter will not only teach you how to create datastore and datastore clusters, but you’ll also work with profile-driven and policy-based storage to manage your storage. To create a disaster recovery solution and retrieve information from vRealize Operations, you will learn how to use Site Recovery Manager and vRealize Operations respectively. Towards the end, you’ll see how to use the REST APIs from PowerShell to manage NSX and vRealize Automation and create patch baselines, scan hosts against the baselines for missing patches, and re-mediate hosts.
By the end of the book, you will be capable of using the best tool to automate the management and configuration of VMware vSphere.

What you will learn

Explore PowerShell and PowerCLI cmdlets and their output objects
See how to manage virtual machines and work with virtual networks
Manage vCloud Director from PowerCLI
Use Site Recovery Manager from PowerCLI to create a disaster recovery solution
Manage NSX and vRealize Automation using REST API with PowerCLI
Create and configure vSphere HA and DRS clusters
Use vSphere Update Manager with PowerCLI to create patch baselines and scan hosts
Explore reporting techniques to retrieve log files

Who this book is for

This book is ideal for you if you want to learn how to automate your VMware vSphere or vCloud infrastructure by getting the most out of PowerCLI. It’s assumed that you have some experience in administrating a vSphere or vCloud environment. Knowledge of Microsoft’s Windows PowerShell is not a prerequisite.

Introduction to PowerCLI
Learning basic PowerCLI concepts
Working with Objects in PowerShell
Managing vSphere Hosts
Managing Virtual Machines
Managing Virtual Networks
Managing Storage
Managing High Availability and Clustering
Managing vCenter Server
Patching vSphere hosts and updating VMware Tools
Managing VMware vCloud Director(vCD) and vCloud Air
Using Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Using vRealize Operations (vRO)
Using REST API to manage NSX and vRealize Automation (vRA)
Reporting with PowerCLI

PDF ISBN: 978-1-78646-692-1

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2017

Language: English

Pages: 562

Related subjects:

Computer sciences,

Business computing

Learning PowerCLI

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