PowerCLI Cookbook
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PowerCLI Cookbook

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Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781784393724
Subtopic
Database

PowerCLI Cookbook


Table of Contents

PowerCLI Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Configuring the Basic Settings of an ESXi Host with PowerCLI
Introduction
Connecting to an ESXi host or a vCenter instance
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Getting the VMware host object
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Joining an ESXi host into Active Directory
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Enabling services and setting security profiles
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Setting network configuration
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Creating datastores on an ESXi host
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Configuring syslog settings on an ESXi host
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Joining an ESXi host to vCenter
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Creating a configuration script to set all properties uniformly
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
2. Configuring vCenter and Computing Clusters
Introduction
Creating a virtual datacenter in vCenter
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a cluster and adding ESXi hosts
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Setting cluster advanced features, including HA, DRS, and EVC
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Setting up resource pools
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Setting up folders to organize objects in vCenter
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Setting permissions on vCenter objects
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
3. Managing Virtual Machines
Introduction
Deploying the first virtual machine
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Cloning a virtual machine to a template
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Deploying new virtual machines from a template
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Importing a virtual appliance from OVA
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Performing a hot add of virtual hardware to an existing virtual machine
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Enabling and disabling Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Increasing the disk space in a virtual machine
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
Upgrading the virtual hardware version of a virtual machine
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Locating and reloading inaccessible or invalid virtual machines
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
Setting VMware Tool settings from PowerCLI
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating basic reports of VM properties using VMware Tools and PowerCLI
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
4. Working with Datastores and Datastore Clusters
Introduction
Performing Storage vMotion
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Finding Raw Disk Mappings in your environment
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Locating thin or thick provisioned disks
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Converting thin to thick disks with Storage vMotion
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Creating and managing datastore clusters
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Setting Storage DRS automation levels for individual virtual machines
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Setting Storage DRS automation levels for individual VMs using PowerCLI 6
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
5. Creating and Managing Snapshots
Introduction
Creating a snapshot
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Getting a list of snapshots in the environment
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Manipulating the list of snapshots to get better information
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Scoping and filtering a list of snapshots
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Removing targeted snapshots
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
Find lost or unknown snapshots
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a function to automatically remediate snapshots
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Scheduling automatic snapshot remediation
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
See also
Creating a snapshot management module
Getting Started
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
6. Managing Resource Pools, Reservations, and Limits for Virtual Machines
Introduction
Setting reservations and limits for resource pools
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Balancing share allocations on resource pools
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Creating a custom attribute with a number of shares per VM on each resource pool
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Automating share allocation balancing
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Reporting shares, reservations, and limits of resource pools and virtual machines
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
7. Creating Custom Reports and Notifications for vSphere
Introduction
Getting alerts from a vSphere environment
Getting ready
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