PowerCLI for the PowerShell Inclined

Josh Atwellvtesseract.com

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Get-Agenda• What is PowerCLI• Getting Started• Managing vSphere Environment• Get-View and .ExtensionData• Managing Update Manager (VUM)• Project Onyx

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What is PowerCLI

www.vmware.com/go/powercli

Windows PowerShell for VMware Virtual Infrastructure and components

PowerCLI Admin Guide

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PowerCLI Capabilities

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First CommandsGet-PowerCLIConfiguration

Set-PowerCLIConfiguration –DefaultVIServerMode ‘multiple’

Get-PowerCLIVersion

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Connecting

Connect-VIServer$cred = Get-CredentialConnect-VIserver –Credential $cred

Multiple Ways to ConnectConnect-VIserver –AllLinkedConnect-Viserver –Menu

$DefaultVIServer

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Get-View• Returns the vSphere .Net view objects

• Filters!

• Methods

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Get-View Filters$filter = @{“Name” = “VMName”}Get-View –ViewType “VirtualMachine” –Filter $filter

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Get-View and Methods

Test-vMotion

$si = Get-View ServiceInstance -Server $global:DefaultVIServer $VmProvCheck = get-view $si.Content.VmProvisioningChecker

$result = $VmProvCheck.CheckMigrate( $vmMoRef, $hsMoRef, $pool, $null, $null )

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VM MoRefID Host MoRefID Resource Pool MoRefID

.ExtensionData

Let’s say you need a VM and what host and MoRef that VM is on

$vm.Vmhost$vm.ExtensionData.MoRef.Value$vm.ExtensionData.ResourcePool.Value

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Browse Datastores - Hard

Use of PSDrives for browsing datastores

$datastore = Get-Datastore “Name”$psdrivename = $datastore.name

New-PSDrive -Name $psdrivename -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root / -Location $datastore

Get-Childitem ($psdrivename + “:/”)

Remove-PSdrive -name $psdrivename -Confirm:$false

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Browse Datastores - Easy

• vi = Inventory of current VIServer• vis = Inventory of All connected VIServers

• cd vi:• dir (alias for Get-ChildItem)

– will give you what is in that root directory• dir –recurse

– gives all objects including subfolders

P. 28 of PowerCLI Admin Guide

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Browse Folders - Easy• vmstore:• vmstores:

• cd vmstore:• dir (get-childitem)• dir –recurse | Select Name, ItemType

P. 28 of PowerCLI Admin Guide

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Wider Management• VMware Update Manager• vCloud Director• View• AutoDeploy• Distributed Virtual Switch

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Update Manager (VUM)

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NOTE: VUM Snap-in is version specific. V5 snap-in does not manage vSphere 4 Update Manager

• Locate Commands Quickly– Get-VICommand *patch*– Get-VICommand *baseline*– Get-VICommand –PSSnapin VMware.VumAutomation

Project Onyx

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Now supporting vSphere 5.5!!

PowerCLI Community

Get-PowerCLICommunity

http://www.vbrownbag.com/http://www.virtu-al.net/http://www.lucd.info/http://geekafterfive.com/http://vnugglets.com/ (Get-View)

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Published Resources

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VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference Alan Renouf, Luc Dekens, Glenn Sizemore, Jonathan Medd, Arnim van Lieshout

Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell Hal Rottenberg

VMware vSphere PowerCLI Hal Rottenberg PluralSight

Published Resources

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Mastering vSphere 5.5 Scott Lowe, Nick Marshall, Forbes Guthrie, Matt Liebowitz, Josh Atwell

Learning PowerCLI Robert van den Nieuwendijk