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Learning PowerCLI. Automate your Vmware vSphere environment by learning how to install and use PowerCLI. This book takes a practical tutorial approach that will have you automating your daily routine tasks in no time

Robert van den Nieuwendijk

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Learning PowerCLI
- Table of Contents
- Learning PowerCLI
- Credits
- About the Author
- 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. Introduction to PowerCLI
  - Downloading and installing PowerCLI
    - Downloading PowerCLI
    - Installing PowerCLI
  - Modifying the PowerShell execution policy
  - Connecting and disconnecting servers
    - Connecting to a server
    - Connecting to multiple servers
    - Suppressing certificate warnings
    - Disconnecting from a server
    - Retrieving the PowerCLI configuration
  - Using the credential store
  - Retrieving a list of all of your virtual machines
    - Suppressing displaying deprecated warnings
    - Using wildcard characters
    - Filtering objects
    - Using comparison operators
    - Using aliases
  - Retrieving a list of all of your hosts
    - Displaying the output in a grid view
  - Summary
- 2. Learning Basic PowerCLI Concepts
  - Using the Get-Command, Get-Help, and Get-Member cmdlets
    - Using Get-Command
    - Using Get-VICommand
    - Using Get-Help
    - Using Get-PowerCLIHelp
    - Using Get-PowerCLICommunity
    - Using Get-Member
  - Using providers and PSDrives
    - Using providers
    - Using PSDrives
    - Using the vSphere PowerCLI Inventory Provider
    - Using the vSphere PowerCLI Datastore Provider
    - Copying files between a datastore and your PC
  - Using arrays and hash tables
  - Creating calculated properties
  - Using raw API objects with ExtensionData or Get-View
    - Using the ExtensionData property
    - Using the Get-View cmdlet
    - Using Managed Object References
    - Using the Get-VIObjectByVIView cmdlet
  - Extending PowerCLI objects with the New-VIProperty cmdlet
  - Working with vSphere folders
  - Summary
- 3. Working with Objects in PowerShell
  - Using objects, properties, and methods
    - Using methods
  - Expanding variables and subexpressions in strings
    - Understanding what expands a string
    - Expanding a string when it is used
  - Using here-strings
  - Using the pipeline
    - Using the ByValue parameter binding
    - Using the ByPropertyName parameter binding
  - Using the PowerShell object cmdlets
    - Using the Select-Object cmdlet
    - Using the Where-Object cmdlet
    - Using the ForEach-Object cmdlet
    - Using the Sort-Object cmdlet
    - Using the Measure-Object cmdlet
      - Rounding a value
    - Using the Group-Object cmdlet
    - Using the Compare-Object cmdlet
    - Using the Tee-Object cmdlet
  - Creating your own objects
    - Using the New-Object cmdlet
    - Using a hash table to create an object
    - Creating objects using the Select-Object cmdlet
    - Adding properties to an object with Add-Member
    - Using type declarations
  - Using COM objects
  - Summary
- 4. Managing vSphere Hosts with PowerCLI
  - Adding a host to a VMware vCenter Server
    - Creating a datacenter
    - Creating a cluster
    - Adding a host
  - Enabling and disabling maintenance mode
  - Working with host profiles
    - Creating a host profile
    - Attaching the host profile to a cluster or a host
    - Testing the host profile for compliance
    - Applying a host profile to a host or cluster
    - Using host profile answer files
    - Exporting a host profile
    - Importing a host profile
  - Working with host services
    - Retrieving information about host services
    - Starting a host service
    - Stopping a host service
    - Restarting a host service
    - Modifying the startup policy of a host service
  - Configuring the host firewall
    - Getting the host firewall default policy
    - Modifying the host firewall default policy
    - Getting the host firewall exceptions
    - Modifying a host firewall exception
  - Configuring vSphere Image Builder and Auto Deploy
    - Configuring Image Builder
    - Configuring Auto Deploy
  - Using esxcli from PowerCLI
    - Listing all of the available esxcli commands
  - Using the vSphere CLI commands from PowerCLI
  - Removing a host from the VMware vCenter Server
  - Summary
- 5. Managing Virtual Machines with PowerCLI
  - Creating a virtual machine
    - Creating a virtual machine from scratch
    - Creating a virtual machine from a template
    - Cloning a virtual machine
  - Registering a virtual machine
  - Using OS customization specifications
  - Starting and stopping a virtual machine
    - Starting a virtual machine
    - Suspending a virtual machine
    - Shutting down a virtual machines guest operating system
    - Stopping a virtual machine
  - Modifying the settings of a virtual machine
    - Using the VMware vSphere API
    - Adding devices to a virtual machine
      - Adding a hard disk
      - Adding a SCSI controller
      - Adding a network adapter
      - Adding a floppy drive
      - Adding a CD drive
    - Modifying devices added to a virtual machine
      - Modifying a hard disk
        
        Moving a hard disk to another datastore
      - Modifying a SCSI controller
      - Modifying a network adapter
      - Modifying a floppy drive
      - Modifying a CD drive
    - Removing devices from a virtual machine
      - Removing a hard disk
      - Removing a network adapter
      - Removing a floppy drive
      - Removing a CD drive
  - Converting a virtual machine into a template
    - Converting a template into a virtual machine
    - Modifying the name of a template
    - Removing a template
  - Moving a virtual machine to another folder, host, cluster, resource pool, or datastore
  - Updating the VMware Tools
    - Using the Update-Tools cmdlet
    - Enabling the "Check and upgrade VMware Tools before each power on" checkbox
  - Upgrading virtual machine compatibility
  - Using snapshots
    - Creating snapshots
    - Retrieving snapshots
    - Reverting to a snapshot
    - Modifying snapshots
    - Removing snapshots
  - Running commands on the guest OS
  - Configuring Fault Tolerance
    - Turning Fault Tolerance on
    - Turning Fault Tolerance off
  - Opening the console of a virtual machine
  - Removing a virtual machine
  - Summary
- 6. Managing Virtual Networks with PowerCLI
  - Using vSphere Standard Switches
    - Creating vSphere Standard Switches
    - Configuring vSphere Standard Switches
    - Adding network adapters to a switch
    - Removing vSphere Standard Switches
  - Using host network adapters
    - Creating host network adapters
    - Retrieving host network adapters
    - Configuring host network adapters
      - Configuring network speed and the duplex setting
      - Configuring the management network
      - Configuring vMotion
    - Removing host network adapters
    - Configuring NIC Teaming
  - Using standard port groups
    - Creating standard port groups
    - Configuring standard port groups
    - Removing standard port groups
  - Using vSphere Distributed Switches
    - Creating vSphere Distributed Switches
      - Creating a new vSphere Distributed Switch from scratch
      - Cloning a vSphere Distributed Switch
      - Creating a vSphere Distributed Switch from an export
    - Retrieving vSphere Distributed Switches
    - Configuring vSphere Distributed Switches
      - Rolling back the configuration of a vSphere Distributed Switch
      - Importing the configuration of a vSphere Distributed Switch from a backup
      - Upgrading a vSphere Distributed Switch
    - Adding hosts to vSphere Distributed Switches
    - Adding host physical network adapters to a vSphere Distributed Switch
    - Removing host physical network adapters from a vSphere Distributed Switch
    - Removing hosts from a vSphere Distributed Switch
    - Exporting the configuration of vSphere Distributed Switches
  - Removing vSphere Distributed Switches
  - Using distributed virtual port groups
    - Creating distributed virtual port groups
      - Creating distributed virtual port groups from a reference group
      - Creating distributed virtual port groups from an export
    - Configuring distributed virtual port groups
      - Renaming a distributed virtual port group
      - Rolling back the configuration of a distributed virtual port group
      - Restoring the configuration of a distributed virtual port group
    - Configuring Network I/O Control
      - Enabling Network I/O Control
      - Disabling Network I/O Control
    - Exporting the configuration of distributed virtual port groups
    - Migrating a host network adapter from a standard port group to a distributed port group
    - Removing distributed virtual port groups
  - Configuring host networking
  - Configuring the network of a virtual machine
  - Summary
- 7. Managing Storage with PowerCLI
  - Rescanning for new storage devices
  - Creating datastores
    - Creating NFS datastores
    - Getting SCSI LUNs
    - Creating VMFS datastores
      - Creating software iSCSI VMFS datastores
  - Retrieving datastores
  - Setting the multipathing policy
  - Configuring the vmhba paths to a SCSI device
    - Retrieving the vmhba paths to a SCSI device
    - Modifying the vmhba paths to a SCSI device
  - Working with Raw Device Mappings
  - Configuring Storage I/O Control
    - Retrieving Storage I/O Control settings
  - Configuring Storage DRS
    - Creating a Datastore Cluster
    - Retrieving Datastore Clusters
    - Modifying Datastore Clusters
    - Adding datastores to a Datastore Cluster
    - Retrieving the datastores in a Datastore Cluster
    - Removing datastores from a Datastore Cluster
    - Removing Datastore Clusters
  - Upgrading datastores to VMFS-5
  - Removing datastores
  - Summary
- 8. Managing High Availability and Clustering with PowerCLI
  - Creating vSphere HA and DRS clusters
  - Retrieving clusters
    - Retrieving the HA master or primary hosts
    - Retrieving cluster configuration issues
  - Modifying cluster settings
    - Disabling HA
    - Disabling or enabling host monitoring
    - Associating a host profile with a cluster
    - Enabling VM and application monitoring
    - Configuring the heartbeat datastore selection policy
  - Moving hosts to clusters
  - Moving clusters
  - Using DRS rules
    - Creating VM-VM DRS rules
    - Creating VM-Host DRS rules
      - Creating virtual machines DRS groups
      - Creating hosts DRS groups
      - Retrieving DRS groups
      - Modifying DRS groups
        
        Adding virtual machines to a DRS group
        
        Removing virtual machines from a DRS group
      - Removing DRS groups
      - Creating virtual machines to hosts DRS rules
    - Retrieving DRS rules
    - Modifying DRS rules
    - Removing DRS rules
  - Using DRS recommendations
  - Using resource pools
    - Creating resource pools
    - Retrieving resource pools
    - Modifying resource pools
    - Moving resource pools
    - Configuring resource allocation between virtual machines
    - Removing resource pools
  - Using Distributed Power Management (DPM)
    - Enabling DPM
    - Configuring hosts for DPM
    - Testing hosts for DPM
      - Putting hosts in standby mode
      - Starting hosts
    - Retrieving the DPM configuration of a cluster
    - Disabling DPM
  - Removing clusters
  - Summary
- 9. Managing vCenter with PowerCLI
  - Working with roles and permissions
    - Retrieving privileges
    - Using roles
      - Creating roles
      - Retrieving roles
      - Modifying roles
      - Removing roles
    - Using permissions
      - Creating permissions
      - Retrieving permissions
      - Modifying permissions
      - Removing permissions
  - Managing licenses
    - Adding license keys to the license inventory
    - Retrieving license keys from the license inventory
    - Removing license keys from the license inventory
    - Assigning licenses to hosts
    - Retrieving assigned licenses
    - Removing assigned license keys from hosts
    - Using the LicenseDataManager
      - Associating license keys with host containers
      - Applying the associated license key to all the hosts in the container
      - Retrieving license key associations
        
        Retrieving all of the license key associations to the host containers in your environment
        
        Retrieving the license keys associated with a specific host container
        
        Retrieving the effective license key of a host container
      - Modifying license key associations
      - Removing license key associations
  - Configuring alarms
    - Retrieving alarm definitions
    - Modifying alarm definitions
    - Creating alarm actions
      - Configuring the vCenter Server mail server and sender settings
    - Retrieving alarm actions
    - Removing alarm actions
    - Creating alarm action triggers
    - Retrieving alarm action triggers
    - Removing alarm action triggers
  - Retrieving events
  - Summary
- 10. Reporting with PowerCLI
  - Retrieving log files
  - Creating log bundles
  - Performance reporting
    - Retrieving the statistical intervals
    - Retrieving performance statistics
    - Retrieving metric IDs
  - Exporting reports to CSV files
  - Generating HTML reports
  - Sending reports by e-mail
  - Reporting the health of your vSphere environment with vCheck
  - Using PowerGUI
  - Summary
- Index

Titel: Learning PowerCLI. Automate your Vmware vSphere environment by learning how to install and use PowerCLI. This book takes a practical tutorial approach that will have you automating your daily routine tasks in no time
Autor: Robert van den Nieuwendijk
Originaler Titel: Learning PowerCLI. Automate your Vmware vSphere environment by learning how to install and use PowerCLI. This book takes a practical tutorial approach that will have you automating your daily routine tasks in no time.
ISBN: 9781782170174, 9781782170174
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2014-02-14
Format: E-book
Artikelkennung: e_3bc8
Verleger: Packt Publishing

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