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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
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 11.  Managing VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Air

VMware vCloud Director (vCD) is VMware's product for cloud service providers to build multitenant cloud services. VMware vCloud Air is VMware's public cloud platform built on vCD. Virtual machines managed by vCloud Director should not be modified in VMware vSphere. Both products can be managed using PowerCLI. The PowerCLI modules VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud and  VMware.VimAutomation.PCloud provides cmdlets to use vCD and vCloud Air. In this chapter, you will learn to how to manage vCD and vCloud Air virtual appliances as well as virtual machines using PowerCLI.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Connecting to vCloud Air servers and vCloud Director servers

  • Retrieving organizations

  • Retrieving organization virtual data centers

  • Retrieving organization networks

  • Retrieving vCloud users

  • Using vCloud virtual appliances

  • Managing vCloud virtual machines

  • Using the vCloud Director API with Get-CIView

  • Disconnecting from vCloud Director servers...