Learn to leverage the ability of PowerCLI to automate your VMware vSphere surroundings with ease

About This Book

• This is first booklet out there that may enlighten you at the most recent model of PowerCLI and the way to enforce it
• Effectively deal with digital machines, networks, and studies with the newest good points of PowerCLI
• A accomplished and functional booklet on automating VMware vSphere

Who This publication Is For

This booklet is perfect for you as a way to how you can automate your VMware vSphere or vCloud infrastructure via getting the main out of PowerCLI. it truly is assumed that you've got a few event in administrating a vSphere or vCloud atmosphere. wisdom of Microsoft's home windows PowerShell isn't a prerequisite.

What you'll Learn

• Explore PowerShell and PowerCLI cmdlets and their output objects
• See find out how to deal with digital machines and paintings with digital networks
• Manage vCloud Director from PowerCLI
• Use web site restoration supervisor from PowerCLI to create a catastrophe restoration solution
• Manage NSX and vRealize Automation utilizing relaxation API with PowerCLI
• Create and configure vSphere HA and DRS clusters
• Use vSphere replace supervisor with PowerCLI to create patch baselines and experiment hosts
• Explore reporting ideas to retrieve log files

In Detail

VMware vSphere PowerCLI, a unfastened extension to Microsoft home windows PowerShell, permits you to automate the administration of a VMware vSphere or vCloud environment.

This e-book will allow you to automate your initiatives and make your task more straightforward. beginning with an creation to the fundamentals of PowerCLI, the booklet will educate you ways to control your vSphere and vCloud infrastructure from the command line. that will help you deal with a vSphere host total, you'll easy methods to deal with vSphere ESXi hosts, host profiles, host prone, host firewall, and installation and improve ESXi hosts utilizing picture Builder and car install. the subsequent bankruptcy won't merely train you the way to create datastore and datastore clusters, yet you are going to additionally paintings with profile-driven and policy-based garage to regulate your garage. To create a catastrophe restoration answer and retrieve details from vRealize Operations, you are going to how to use web site restoration supervisor and vRealize Operations respectively. in the direction of the top, you will see the way to use the remaining APIs from PowerShell to regulate NSX and vRealize Automation and create patch baselines, experiment hosts opposed to the baselines for lacking patches, and re-mediate hosts.

By the top of the booklet, you can be able to utilizing the simplest device to automate the administration and configuration of VMware vSphere.

Style and approach

This finished booklet will educate process directors every little thing approximately PowerCLI 6 and the way to make use of it to automate VMware vSphere.