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Mastering PowerCLI

By : Sajal Debnath
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Mastering PowerCLI

By: Sajal Debnath

Overview of this book

Have you ever wished that every morning you could automatically get a report with all the relevant information about your datacenter in exactly the same format you want? Or whether you could automate that boring, exhausting task? What if some crucial task needs to be performed on a regular basis without any error? PowerCLI scripts do all that and much more for VMware environments. It is built on top of the popular Windows PowerShell, with which you can automate server tasks and reduce manual input, allowing you to focus on more important tasks. This book will help you to achieve your goals by starting with a short refresher on PowerShell and PowerCLI and then covering the nuances of advanced functions and reusable scripts. Next you will learn how to build a vSphere-powered virtualized datacenter using PowerCLI while managing different aspects of the environment including automated installation, network, and storage. You will then manage different logical constructs of vSphere environment and different aspects of a virtual machine. Later, you will implement the best practices for a security implementation in vSphere Environment through PowerCLI before discovering how to manage other VMware environments such as SRM, vCloud Director and vCloud Air through PowerCLI. You will also learn to manage vSphere environments using advanced properties by accessing vSphere API and REST APIs through PowerCLI. Finally, you will build a Windows GUI application using PowerShell followed by a couple of sample scripts for reporting and managing vSphere environments with detailed explanations of the scripts. By the end of the book, you will have the required in-depth knowledge to master the art of PowerCLI scripting.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering PowerCLI
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing port groups


So far, we have created standard and distributed virtual switches as well as checked how to configure the different aspects of networking ESXi hosts. Now, we will take a look at how we can configure port groups in virtual switches. We will start with the different cmdlets that we can use to configure port groups for standard switches, and then we will check the port groups of distributed switches.

The cmdlets related to standard switches are as follows:

  • Get-VirtualPortGroup

  • New-VirtualPortGroup

  • Remove-VirtualPortGroup

  • Set-VirtualPortGroup

As the name suggests, we can get details of the Get-VirtualPortGroup cmdlet and create a new one with the New-VirtualPortGroup cmdlet. We will start with creating a new port group.

We can add a VLAN ID to a port group of a virtual switch using the New-VirtualPortGroup cmdlet, using the VLanId switch.

We can remove a port group using the Remove-VirtualPortGroup cmdlet and change the properties of an existing virtual switch using the...