PowerCLI cookbook over 75 step-by-step recipes to put PowerCLI into action for efficient administration of your virtual environment

If you are a virtualization professional who wants to unleash the power of automation and combat the complexity of sprawling virtual environments, this book is ideal for you. This book will enhance your skills of administering VMware vSphere and vCloud Director with PowerCLI.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sellers, Philip
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Birmingham, UK Packt Publishing 2015
Series:Quick answers to common problems
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a Chapter 4: Working with Datastores and Datastore ClustersIntroduction -- Performing Storage vMotion -- Finding Raw Disk Mappings in your environment -- Locating thin or thick provisioned disk -- Converting thin to thick disks with Storage vMotion -- Creating and managing datastore clusters -- Setting Storage DRS automation levels for individual virtual machines -- Setting Storage DRS automation levels for individual VMs using PowerCLI 6 -- Chapter 5: Creating and Managing Snapshots -- Introduction -- Creating a snapshot 
505 0 |a Joining an ESXi host to vCenterCreating a configuration script to set all properties uniformly -- Chapter 2: Configuring vCenter and Computing Clusters -- Introduction -- Creating a virtual datacenter in vCenter -- Creating a cluster and adding ESXi hosts -- Setting cluster advanced features including HA, DRS, and EVC -- Setting up resource pools -- Setting up folders to organize objects in vCenter -- Setting permissions on vCenter objects -- Chapter 3: Managing Virtual Machines -- Introduction -- Deploying the first virtual machine 
505 0 |a Getting a list of snapshots in the environmentManipulating the list of snapshots to get better information -- Scoping and filtering a list of snapshots -- Removing targeted snapshots -- Find lost or unknown snapshots -- Creating a function to automatically remediate snapshots -- Scheduling automatic snapshot remediation -- Creating a snapshot management module -- Chapter 6: Managing Resource Pools, Reservations, and Limits for Virtual Machines -- Introduction -- Setting reservations and limits for resource pools -- Balancing share allocations on resource pools 
505 0 |a Cloning a virtual machine to a templateDeploying new virtual machines from a template -- Importing a virtual appliance from OVA -- Performing a hot add of virtual hardware to an existing virtual machine -- Enabling and disabling Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine -- Increasing the disk space in a virtual machine -- Upgrading the virtual hardware version of a virtual machine -- Locating and reloading inaccessible or invalid virtual machines -- Setting VMware Tool settings from PowerCLI -- Creating basic reports of VM properties using VMware Tools and PowerCLI 
505 0 |a Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Configuring the Basic Settings of an ESXi Host with PowerCLI -- Introduction -- Connecting to an ESXi host or a vCenter instance -- Getting the VMware host object -- Joining an ESXi host into Active Directory -- Enabling services and setting security profiles -- Setting network configuration -- Creating datastores on an ESXi host -- Configuring syslog settings on an ESXi host 
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