Chris Halverson 
PowerCLI Essentials [EPUB ebook] 

Simplify and automate server administration tasks with Power CLI

• Automate VMware’s VSphere environment by learning the essentials of Power CLI


• Impress your peers by developing scripts to perform administration tasks


• Discover the intricate workings of Power CLI through simple and real-life examples

Power CLI Essentials is focused toward virtualization professionals and system administrators who want to discover and learn about the automation techniques associated with Power CLI for complex virtual environments.

• Download and install Power CLI and its basics as well as the basics of Power Shell


• Enchance your scritping experience


• Build longer scripts and simpler reports


• Relate a task in VMware administration to a Power CLI script


• Discover methods to acquire and change information remotely


• Set up orchestrator to manage your workflow

Have you ever wished you could automatically get a report with all the relevant information about your VMware environments in exactly the format you want? Or that you could automate a crucial task that needs to be performed on a regular basis? Powerful Command Line Interface (Power CLI) scripts do all these things and much more for VMware environments. Power CLI is a command-line interface tool used to automate VMware v Sphere environments. It is used to handle complicated administration tasks through use of various cmdlets and scripts, which are designed to handle certain aspects of VSphere servers and to help you manage them.

This book will show you the intricacies of Power CLI through real-life examples so that you can discover the art of Power CLI scripting. At the start, you will be taught to download and install Power CLI and will learn about the different versions of it. Moving further, you will be introduced to the GUI of Power CLI and will find out how to develop single line scripts to duplicate running tasks, produce simple reports, and simplify administration. Next, you will learn about the methods available to get information remotely. Towards the end, you will be taught to set up orchestrator and build workflows in Power Shell with update manager and SRM scripts.

Each and every topic in this book is explained in a very easy-to-follow fashion with real-life, simple examples so you’ll get an idea not only about working with Power CLI, but will also get an idea about scripting.