In this chapter, you will cover the following recipes:
Deploying the first virtual machine
Cloning a virtual machine to a template
Deploying new virtual machines from a template
Importing a virtual appliance from OVA
Performing a hot add of virtual hardware to an existing virtual machine
Enabling and disabling Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine
Increasing the disk space in a virtual machine
Upgrading the virtual hardware version of a virtual machine
Locating and reloading inaccessible or invalid virtual machines
Setting VMware Tool settings from PowerCLI
Creating basic reports of VM properties using VMware Tools and PowerCLI