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PowerCLI Cookbook

By : Philip Brandon Sellers
Book Image

PowerCLI Cookbook

By: Philip Brandon Sellers

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PowerCLI Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Reporting shares, reservations, and limits of resource pools and virtual machines


Now that you have the shares fully automated and scheduled, you might need to report the values and ensure that everything is good. Since your shares are defined by the number of VMs and the custom attribute value, you can easily create a table-formatted report that includes the set values for memory and CPU shares and compare that against a computed value. This will help you to verify that your function is working in the future. For this recipe, you will write an additional function to add into your module.

Getting ready

This recipe will continue inside the .psm1 file that you created in the previous recipe. You will need this file, a text editor, a PowerCLI window, and an active connection to vCenter.

How to do it…

In order to report shares, reservations, and limits of resource pools and virtual machines, perform the following steps:

  1. The first step is to get a basic function established. Refer to the Automating...