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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

Configuring custom storage and path selection policies


One of the more common uses for ESXCLI in PowerCLI is the configuration of Storage Array Type Plug-in (SATP) and path selection policy (PSP) settings. These configurations are particularly important from array to array. While ESXi ships with many default configurations, storage array vendors often have specific settings and claim rules that might need to be configured on each host. These settings can easily be set with ESXCLI, and since it works on the command line, it can work in PowerCLI with the ESXCLI object.

Getting ready

To begin this recipe, you will need a PowerCLI window and a connection to a vCenter Server. If we continue from the previous recipe, you can leverage the ESXCLI object and variable, and if not, you can obtain a new object in Step 1 of this recipe.

How to do it…

In order to configure custom storage and the path selection policies, perform the following steps:

  1. The first step is to obtain your ESXCLI object. To do this...