Learning PowerCLI : a practical guide to get you started with automating VMware vSphere via PowerCLI / Robert van den Nieuwendijk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nieuwendijk, Robert van den.

Series:

Profesional expertise distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

VMware--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

VMware.

Virtual computer systems--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Virtual computer systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

van den Nieuwendijk Robert: Robert van den Nieuwendijk is an IT veteran from the Netherlands with over thirty years of experience in Information Technology. He holds a bachelor degree in software engineering. After working a few years as a programmer of air traffic control and vessel traffic management systems, he started his own company Van den Nieuwendijk Informatica in 1988. Since then he has worked as a freelance systems administrator of OpenVMS, Windows Server, Linux, and VMware vSphere systems, for Dutch governmental organizations and cloud providers. During winter he is also a ski and snowboard instructor at an indoor ski school. With his background as a programmer, he always tries to make his job easier by writing programs or scripts to perform repeating tasks. In the past, he used the C programming language, OpenVMS DCL, Visual Basic Script and KiXtart to do this. Now, he uses Microsoft PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI for all of his scripting work. Robert is a frequent contributor and moderator at the VMware VMTN Communities. Since 2012 VMware awarded him the vExpert title for his significant contributions to the community and a willingness to share his expertise with others. He has a blog at http: //rvdnieuwendijk. com where he writes mainly about VMware PowerCLI, Microsoft PowerShell, and VMware vSphere. If you want to get in touch with Robert, then you can find him on Twitter. His username is @rvdnieuwendijk. Robert is also the author of Learning PowerCLI, Packt Publishing.

Summary:

""Learning PowerCLI"" is written in a friendly and practical style with a focus on getting you started and automating daily tasks quickly and efficiently. If you manage or administrate a vSphere environment, and want to make that easier and more efficient, then this book is for you!This book is ideal for you if you want to learn how to automate your VMware vSphere infrastructure, by getting the most out of PowerCLI. It's assumed that you have some experience in administrating a VMware vSphere environment. Knowledge of Microsoft's Windows PowerShell is not a prerequisite.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction to PowerCLI; Downloading and installing PowerCLI; Downloading PowerCLI; Installing PowerCLI; Modifying the PowerShell execution policy; Connecting and disconnecting servers; Connecting to a server; Connecting to multiple servers; Suppressing certificate warnings; Disconnecting from a server; Retrieving the PowerCLI Configuration; Using the credential store; Retrieving a list of all of your virtual machines; Suppressing displaying deprecated warnings

Using wildcard charactersFiltering objects; Using comparison operators; Using aliases; Retrieving a list of all of your hosts; Displaying the output in a grid view; Summary; Chapter 2: Learning Basic PowerCLI Concepts; Using the Get-Command, Get-Help, and Get-Member cmdlets; Using Get-Command; Using Get-VICommand; Using Get-Help; Using Get-PowerCLIHelp; Using Get-PowerCLICommunity; Using Get-Member; Using providers and PSdrives; Using providers; Using PSDrives; Using the vSphere PowerCLI Inventory Provider; Using the vSphere PowerCLI Datastore Provider

Copying files between a datastore and your PCUsing arrays and hash tables; Creating calculated properties; Using raw API objects with ExtensionData or Get-View; Using the ExtensionData property; Using the Get-View cmdlet; Using Managed Object References; Using the Get-VIObjectByVIView cmdlet; Extending PowerCLI objects with the New-VIProperty cmdlet; Working with vSphere folders; Summary; Chapter 3: Working with Objects in PowerShell; Using objects, properties, and methods; Using methods; Expanding variables and subexpressions in strings; Understanding what expands a string

Expanding a string when it is usedUsing here-strings; Using the pipeline; Using the ByValue parameter binding; Using the ByPropertyName parameter binding; Using the PowerShell object cmdlets; Using the Select-Object cmdlet; Using the Where-Object cmdlet; Using the ForEach-Object cmdlet; Using the Sort-Object cmdlet; Using the Measure-Object cmdlet; Rounding a value; Using the Group-Object cmdlet; Using the Compare-Object cmdlet; Using the Tee-Object cmdlet; Creating your own objects; Using the New-Object cmdlet; Using a hash table to create an object

Creating objects using the Select-Object cmdletAdding properties to an object with Add-Member; Using type declarations; Using COM objects; Summary; Chapter 4: Managing vSphere Hosts with PowerCLI; Adding a host to a VMware vCenter Server; Creating a datacenter; Creating a cluster; Adding a host; Enabling and disabling maintenance mode; Working with host profiles; Creating a host profile; Attaching the host profile to a cluster or a host; Testing the host profile for compliance; Applying a host profile to a host or cluster; Using host profile answer files; Exporting a host profile

Importing a host profile

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource ; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 03, 2014).

ISBN:

9781782170174

1782170170

OCLC:

870892400