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vSphere PowerCLIThe best tool for automating vSphere

http://vmware.com/go/powercli

You need to automate! You’re only one click away from a new

VM, application or network. Your virtual environment is not “out of

control” – having to manage more than before is the new reality.


SDVMUG October 2009 A brief intro to PowerCLI. Reporting with PowerCLI. VM Provisioning and Lifecycle. Storage Management. Q + A.


What is PowerCLI? PowerCLI is an automation tool. Designed with the admin in mind.

You don’t need to spend weeks learning the API.

Based on Windows PowerShell.Provides a modern and powerful scripting

framework.


PowerCLI Supports: ESX 3.0+ VirtualCenter/vCenter 2.0+ Any version of Windows that supports

PowerShell.


PowerCLI Goals. Power:

Automate any vSphere action. Simplicity:

Any vSphere admin can read PowerCLI code and immediately understand what it does.


People use PowerCLI to… Clone hundreds of VMs from a template. Perform mass migrations with Storage

VMotion. Easily integrate vSphere with other apps. More than 500 examples on our

community.http://vmware.com/go/powercli


DemoA 5 Minute Tour of PowerCLI.


Reporting 3 Types Of Reporting Inventory

Get-* cmdlets Events

Get-VIEvent Performance

Get-Stat


DemoReporting


Just to repeat myself 3 Types Of Reporting Inventory

Get-* cmdlets Events

Get-VIEvent Performance

Get-Stat


Some Interesting StatsInteresting Stuff disk.write.average

disk.read.average Resource Contention cpu.swapwait.summation

cpu.ready.summation

disk.totalreadlatency.average

disk.totalwritelatency.average

Generally Bad Stuff mem.swapout.average

disk.busresets.summation

disk.commandsaborted.summation

Storage Management *-Datastore *-ScsiLun *-ScsiLunPath Storage VMotion


DemoStorage Management (Contains future features)


Storage: Conclusion PowerCLI makes it easy to:

Provision storage.Report on storage.Diagnose storage problems.


VM Provisioning New-VM Get-Template Get-OSCustomizationSpec Set-VM


Demo

VM Provisioning and Lifecycle (Contains future features)


Provisioning: Conclusion PowerCLI makes provisioning large

numbers of assets very easy.


Coming Soon Configure virtual switch teaming, failover,

etc. Thin provisioning.

Convert existing or provision new. Guest management.

Copy files in and out. Roles and Permissions.

Duplicate between vCenter instances.


Conclusion PowerCLI is extremely powerful and

useful. It’s getting better all the time. It’s free and easy to install. This is a must-know tool for any

vSphere admin.


Learn More. Download at

http://vmware.com/go/powercli Join our community. Subscribe to the PowerCLI blog.

http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell Extensions at

http://codeplex.com/vitoolkitextensionshttp://vmware.com/go/powercli

Questions?

Download today: http://vmware.com/go/powercli


san diego vmug oct 2009

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