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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

Working with host profiles


A host profile is a collection of all of the configuration settings for an ESXi host, such as storage and networking configurations and security settings. You can create a host profile from a reference host or import an existing host profile. After attaching a host profile to a host, the host can be checked for compliance with the host profile. If the host is compliant, you know the settings of the host are the same as the settings of the host profile. If the host is not compliant, the host profile can be applied to the host to make the host compliant.

The following screenshot of the vSphere Web Client shows you some of the settings that you can configure in a host profile:

Common Information Model (CIM) indication subscriptions are subscriptions to notifications for hardware-related events, such as problems with the cooling, battery, processor, memory, or power of an ESXi server.

Creating a host profile

To get started, you first need to configure a reference host...