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Learning PowerCLI for VMware VSphere

By : Robert van den Nieuwendijk
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Learning PowerCLI for VMware VSphere

By: Robert van den Nieuwendijk

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Learning PowerCLI for VMware VSphere
Robert van den Nieuwendijk
Feb, 2014 | 374 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning PowerCLI
Learning PowerCLI
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to PowerCLI
Introduction to PowerCLI
Downloading and installing PowerCLI
Modifying the PowerShell execution policy
Connecting and disconnecting servers
Using the credential store
Retrieving a list of all of your virtual machines
Retrieving a list of all of your hosts
Summary
2
Learning Basic PowerCLI Concepts
Learning Basic PowerCLI Concepts
Using the Get-Command, Get-Help, and Get-Member cmdlets
Using providers and PSDrives
Using arrays and hash tables
Creating calculated properties
Using raw API objects with ExtensionData or Get-View
Extending PowerCLI objects with the New-VIProperty cmdlet
Working with vSphere folders
Summary
3
Working with Objects in PowerShell
Working with Objects in PowerShell
Using objects, properties, and methods
Expanding variables and subexpressions in strings
Using here-strings
Using the pipeline
Using the PowerShell object cmdlets
Creating your own objects
Using COM objects
Summary
4
Managing vSphere Hosts with PowerCLI
Managing vSphere Hosts with PowerCLI
Adding a host to a VMware vCenter Server
Enabling and disabling maintenance mode
Working with host profiles
Working with host services
Configuring the host firewall
Configuring vSphere Image Builder and Auto Deploy
Using esxcli from PowerCLI
Using the vSphere CLI commands from PowerCLI
Removing a host from the VMware vCenter Server
Summary
5
Managing Virtual Machines with PowerCLI
Managing Virtual Machines with PowerCLI
Creating a virtual machine
Registering a virtual machine
Using OS customization specifications
Starting and stopping a virtual machine
Modifying the settings of a virtual machine
Converting a virtual machine into a template
Moving a virtual machine to another folder, host, cluster, resource pool, or datastore
Updating the VMware Tools
Upgrading virtual machine compatibility
Using snapshots
Running commands on the guest OS
Configuring Fault Tolerance
Opening the console of a virtual machine
Removing a virtual machine
Summary
6
Managing Virtual Networks with PowerCLI
Managing Virtual Networks with PowerCLI
Using vSphere Standard Switches
Using host network adapters
Using standard port groups
Using vSphere Distributed Switches
Removing vSphere Distributed Switches
Using distributed virtual port groups
Configuring host networking
Configuring the network of a virtual machine
Summary
7
Managing Storage with PowerCLI
Managing Storage with PowerCLI
Rescanning for new storage devices
Creating datastores
Retrieving datastores
Setting the multipathing policy
Configuring the vmhba paths to a SCSI device
Working with Raw Device Mappings
Configuring Storage I/O Control
Configuring Storage DRS
Upgrading datastores to VMFS-5
Removing datastores
Summary
8
Managing High Availability and Clustering with PowerCLI
Managing High Availability and Clustering with PowerCLI
Creating vSphere HA and DRS clusters
Retrieving clusters
Modifying cluster settings
Moving hosts to clusters
Moving clusters
Using DRS rules
Using DRS recommendations
Using resource pools
Using Distributed Power Management (DPM)
Removing clusters
Summary
9
Managing vCenter with PowerCLI
Managing vCenter with PowerCLI
Working with roles and permissions
Managing licenses
Configuring alarms
Retrieving events
Summary
10
Reporting with PowerCLI
Reporting with PowerCLI
Retrieving log files
Creating log bundles
Performance reporting
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
Index

Chapter 7. Managing Storage with PowerCLI

Your virtual machines need storage for their configuration files, disks, swap files, and snapshot files. These files can be placed on datastores that reside on a host's local storage, Network File System (NFS), Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), Fibre Channel (FC) or Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and Storage Area Networks (SANs). Datastores can be grouped into Datastore Clusters to create pools of datastores for storage aggregation, easy initial placement of disks, and load balancing using Storage DRS. In this chapter, we will discuss how to manage storage with PowerCLI.

The topics that will be covered in this chapter are as follows:

  • Rescanning for new storage devices

  • Creating datastores

  • Retrieving datastores

  • Setting the multipathing policy

  • Configuring the vmhba paths to a SCSI device

  • Working with Raw Device Mappings

  • Configuring Storage I/O Control

  • Configuring Storage DRS

  • Upgrading datastores to VMFS-5

  • Removing datastores

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