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Learning PowerCLI - Second Edition

By : Robert van den Nieuwendijk
Book Image

Learning PowerCLI - Second Edition

By: Robert van den Nieuwendijk

Overview of this book

VMware vSphere PowerCLI, a free extension to Microsoft Windows PowerShell, enables you to automate the management of a VMware vSphere or vCloud environment. This book will show you how to automate your tasks and make your job easier. Starting with an introduction to the basics of PowerCLI, the book will teach you how to manage your vSphere and vCloud infrastructure from the command line. To help you manage a vSphere host overall, you will learn how to manage vSphere ESXi hosts, host profiles, host services, host firewall, and deploy and upgrade ESXi hosts using Image Builder and Auto Deploy. The next chapter will not only teach you how to create datastore and datastore clusters, but you’ll also work with profile-driven and policy-based storage to manage your storage. To create a disaster recovery solution and retrieve information from vRealize Operations, you will learn how to use Site Recovery Manager and vRealize Operations respectively. Towards the end, you’ll see how to use the REST APIs from PowerShell to manage NSX and vRealize Automation and create patch baselines, scan hosts against the baselines for missing patches, and re-mediate hosts. By the end of the book, you will be capable of using the best tool to automate the management and configuration of VMware vSphere.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Learning PowerCLI Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Managing vRA tenants


A tenant is an organizational unit in vRA that can be a company or a business unit in an enterprise. After deploying vRA, you will only have a default tenant named vsphere.local. To create a new tenant, you have to connect to vRA using the [email protected] account that has the system administrator role in the vsphere.local tenant. In the preceding section, Connecting to vRA servers , we have already retrieved a bearer token for the [email protected] account. In the following section, Creating vRA tenants , we will create a new tenant named Research.

Creating vRA tenants

To create a new tenant, we save the tenant name in the variable $Tenant, as follows:

PowerCLI C:\> $Tenant = 'research'

We will save the URI specifying the identity service and the name of the new tenant in the variable $Uri, using the following command:

PowerCLI C:\> $Uri = "https://$vRAServer/identity/api/tenants/$Tenant"

Next, we create a JSON here-string containing id, urlName...