PowerCLI Cookbook
eBook - ePub

PowerCLI Cookbook

Philip Sellers

Share book
  1. 274 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

PowerCLI Cookbook

Philip Sellers

Book details
Book preview
Table of contents
Citations

Frequently asked questions

How do I cancel my subscription?
Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on ā€œCancel Subscriptionā€ - itā€™s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time youā€™ve paid for. Learn more here.
Can/how do I download books?
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
What is the difference between the pricing plans?
Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlegoā€™s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan youā€™ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.
What is Perlego?
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, weā€™ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Do you support text-to-speech?
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Is PowerCLI Cookbook an online PDF/ePUB?
Yes, you can access PowerCLI Cookbook by Philip Sellers in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Computer Science & Desktop Applications. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2015
ISBN
9781784393724

PowerCLI Cookbook


Table of Contents

PowerCLI Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Free access for Packt account holders
Instant updates on new Packt books
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 worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Getting the VMware host object
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Joining an ESXi host into Active Directory
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Enabling services and setting security profiles
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
Setting network configuration
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Creating datastores on an ESXi host
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Configuring syslog settings on an ESXi host
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
Joining an ESXi host to vCenter
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Creating a configuration script to set all properties uniformly
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
2. Configuring vCenter and Computing Clusters
Introduction
Creating a virtual datacenter in vCenter
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
Creating a cluster and adding ESXi hosts
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Setting cluster advanced features, including HA, DRS, and EVC
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Setting up resource pools
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Setting up folders to organize objects in vCenter
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Setting permissions on vCenter objects
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
3. Managing Virtual Machines
Introduction
Deploying the first virtual machine
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Cloning a virtual machine to a template
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Deploying new virtual machines from a template
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
Importing a virtual appliance from OVA
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Performing a hot add of virtual hardware to an existing virtual machine
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Enabling and disabling Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Increasing the disk space in a virtual machine
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
Upgrading the virtual hardware version of a virtual machine
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Locating and reloading inaccessible or invalid virtual machines
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
Setting VMware Tool settings from PowerCLI
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
Creating basic reports of VM properties using VMware Tools and PowerCLI
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
4. Working with Datastores and Datastore Clusters
Introduction
Performing Storage vMotion
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
Finding Raw Disk Mappings in your environment
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Locating thin or thick provisioned disks
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
Converting thin to thick disks with Storage vMotion
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
Creating and managing datastore clusters
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
Setting Storage DRS automation levels for individual virtual machines
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
Setting Storage DRS automation levels for individual VMs using PowerCLI 6
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
5. Creating and Managing Snapshots
Introduction
Creating a snapshot
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Getting a list of snapshots in the environment
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
Manipulating the list of snapshots to get better information
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Scoping and filtering a list of snapshots
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
Removing targeted snapshots
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
Find lost or unknown snapshots
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
Creating a function to automatically remediate snapshots
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Scheduling automatic snapshot remediation
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
See also
Creating a snapshot management module
Getting Started
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
6. Managing Resource Pools, Reservations, and Limits for Virtual Machines
Introduction
Setting reservations and limits for resource pools
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Balancing share allocations on resource pools
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Creating a custom attribute with a number of shares per VM on each resource pool
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
Automating share allocation balancing
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
Reporting shares, reservations, and limits of resource pools and virtual machines
Getting ready
How to do itā€¦
How it worksā€¦
There's moreā€¦
See also
7. Creating Custom Reports and Notifications for vSphere
Introduction
Getting alerts from a vSphere environment
Getting ready
...

Table of contents