Book Image

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

Protecting virtual machines


The Protect-SrmVm function of the Meadowcroft.SRM module will protect a virtual machine and put the virtual machine in an SRM protection group. The syntax of the Protect-SrmVm function is as follows:

Protect-SrmVM [-ProtectionGroup] <SrmProtectionGroup> 
    [[-Vm] <VirtualMachineImpl>] [[-VmView] <VirtualMachine>]  
    [<CommonParameters>]

The -ProtectionGroup parameter is required.

In the following example, we will add virtual machine VM1 to the protection group Protected VMs Protection Group. First, we will retrieve the Protected VMs Protection Group and save it in the variable $SrmProtectionGroup:

PowerCLI C:\> $SrmProtectionGroup = Get-SrmProtectionGroup
    -Name 'Protected VMs Protection Group'

Next, we will retrieve the view of virtual machine VM1 and save it in variable $VMView:

PowerCLI C:\> $VMView = (Get-VM -Name VM1).ExtensionData

Finally, VM1 is added to the Protected VMs Protection Group with the following command...