Mastering PowerCLI电子书

Mastering PowerCLI

Table of Contents

Mastering PowerCLI

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgment

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. PowerShell and PowerCLI Refresher

The essence of PowerShell and PowerCLI

The history of scripting

PowerShell

PowerCLI

The vSphere PowerCLI package

The vCloud PowerCLI package

Implementing programming constructs in PowerShell

Conditional logic

Conditional logic using loops

The difference between Foreach and Foreach-object

Automation through PowerShell scripts

Running and scheduling scripts

Using version control with GitHub

The fork & pull model

The shared repository model

Branch

Testing your scripts using Pester

Connecting to a vCenter and other VMware environments using PowerCLI cmdlets

Summary

2. Reusable Advanced Functions and Scripts

Specifying function attributes

Specifying parameter attributes

Using parameter validation attributes

Dynamic parameters

Switch parameters

PowerShell help files

Creating comment-based help

Error handling in PowerShell

Summary

3. Deploying vSphere Hosts

Image Builder with PowerCLI

Using host profiles

Configuring Auto Deploy for ESXi hosts

Adding hosts to a vCenter server

Summary

4. Managing Networks

Managing vSphere standard switches

Managing networking for ESXi

Managing vSphere distributed switches

Managing port groups

Creating private VLANs

Configuring vSphere network I/O control

Configuring Netflow

Working with ports

Configuring traffic shaping

Configuring port blocking

Configuring the security policy

Configuring the teaming policy

Summary

5. Managing Storage

Managing datastores

Configuring Fibre Channel storage

Configuring iSCSI storage

Configuring NFS storage

Configuring virtual SAN

Using datastore clusters

Using Raw Device Mapping

Managing storage using storage policy-based management

Cmdlets related to policy rules

Cmdlets related to storage policy

Cmdlets related to Spbm capabilities and compatible storage

Cmdlets related to policy application

Cmdlets related to policy backup and migration

Applying VMFS resignaturing

Configuring vFLASH using PowerCLI Extensions

Summary

6. Managing Clusters and Other Constructs

Configuring vCenter logical constructs

Folder

Datacenter

Cluster

Configuring the Enhanced vMotion Compatibility mode

Configuring High Availability

Using Dynamic Resource Scheduling

Using the DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules

Managing resource pools

Managing alarms

Summary

7. Managing Virtual Machines

Creating virtual machines

Modifying virtual machines

Hard disks

Network adapters and USB devices

Passthrough devices

Snapshots

Resource configuration and policies

Managing VMware tools in a VM

Managing templates

Managing OS customization specifications

Managing the guest OS

Managing vApps

Summary

8. Managing vSphere Security, SRM, vCloud Air, and vROps

The vSphere Security Hardening Guide

Managing vSphere Update Manager

Configuring a firewall and services in an ESXi host

Managing host profiles

Managing vCenter Site Recovery Manager

Managing vCloud Air

Managing vRealize Operations Manager

Summary

9. Managing the vSphere API

Using the Get-View cmdlet to return .NET View objects

Using the ExtensionData property to return .NET View objects

Using the vSphere API

Creating a vSphere scheduled task

Configuring Distributed Power Management

Configuring Fault Tolerance

Managing Content Libraries

Managing SRM advanced configurations

Generating PowerCLI code using Onyx

PowerActions for vSphere Web Client

Summary

10. Using REST APIs

Introducing REST APIs

Introducing JSON

Syntax rules

Values

The Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet

vRealize Automation REST APIs

Authenticating and getting a vRA token

Managing tenants

Creating a tenant

Listing identity stores for a tenant

Linking an identity store to a tenant

Managing machines

Listing shared and private catalog items

Managing approvals

Managing provisioned resources

Managing network profiles

Summary

11. Creating Windows GUI

Different ways to create a Windows GUI

Building a GUI using Windows Forms

Creating a button

Creating a TextBox

Creating ListBox

Creating CheckBox

Using SAPIEN PowerShell Studio

Building GUI using WPF

Summary

12. Best Practices and Sample Scripts

Best practices

Security Hardening Script

Capacity check report

Parameter descriptions

Using a proper editor

Sublime Text

ISESteroids

Summary

Index