Storage policy-based management (SPBM) is the control plane of VMware's management layer for Software-Defined Storage (SDS). SPBM can use the vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) providers to expose storage topologies, capabilities, and state information to vCenter Server. You can also manually define storage capabilities by using tags. For example, you can create tags for replicated and nonreplicated storage. These tags will be assigned to datastores. From the capabilities or tags, you can create SPBM rules, rule sets, and storage policies. These storage policies can be used to create virtual machines on storage that is compliant with a certain storage policy. Storage policies can be exported to XML files, which can be imported later.
Learning PowerCLI - Second Edition
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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.
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Learning PowerCLI - Second Edition
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Learning PowerCLI Second Edition
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Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to PowerCLI
Learning Basic PowerCLI Concepts
Working with Objects in PowerShell
Managing vSphere Hosts with PowerCLI
Managing Virtual Machines with PowerCLI
Managing Virtual Networks with PowerCLI
Managing Storage
Managing High Availability and Clustering
Managing vCenter Server
Patching ESXi Hosts and Upgrading Virtual Machines
Managing VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Air
Using Site Recovery Manager
Using vRealize Operations Manager
Using REST API to manage NSX and vRealize Automation
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