June 2009 PowerCLI Webinar

vSphere PowerCLIThe best tool for automating vSphere

http://vmware.com/go/powercli

Agenda For Today A brief intro to PowerCLI. Performance monitoring. Analyzing logs. Advanced configuration. Reporting. Dealing with ESXi.


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 Goals. Power:

Automate any vSphere action. Simplicity:

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


Why we automate. “Those who cannot automate are

condemned to repeat themselves.”-- Some Internet person.

Simple things:Automate if you plan to do it 10+ times.

Hard things:Automate if you plan to do it 50+ times.


People use PowerCLI to… Synchronize guest and host time. Upgrade VMware Tools without

rebooting. Tune HBA storage paths. More than 300 examples on our

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


DemoA 5 Minute Tour of PowerCLI.


Key Performance Cmdlets Get-StatType Get-StatInterval Get-Stat


DemoAnalyzing Performance.


Key Logging Cmdlets Get-LogType

Tells you what types of logs are available.vCenter and ESX have different types.

Get-LogReturns lines from log files.-Bundle: Gets all server logs and

diagnostics. VI Toolkit Extensions

Log archival.http://vmware.com/go/powercli

DemoDealing With Logs.


Advanced Configuration. Key cmdlets:

Get-VMHostAdvancedConfigurationSet-VMHostAdvancedConfigurationGet-VMHostModuleSet-VMHostModule


DemoAdvanced Configuration.


Reporting in style with VESI. VESI is a PowerShell-based automation

tool for VM administrators. VESI also has some great reporting

facilities. Find it at http://www.thevesi.org/


DemoReporting With Virtualization EcoShell.


Dealing With ESXi New in PowerCLI 4.0: Host Profiles

cmdlets.Export-VMHostProfileApply-VMHostProfileWatch the video:

http://vimeo.com/4410391 ESXi configuration scripts in the

community:http://tr.im/nfpb


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?


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