Automa'on  Using  PowerCLI  

Eric  Wannemacher  

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Give  me  a  lever  long  enough  and  a  fulcrum  on  which  to  place  it,  and  I  shall  move  the  world.    Archimedes    

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How  Do  I  Use  It?  

•  Things  that  are  boring/repe''ve  – Server  builds  – LUN  migra'ons  – Changing  seRngs  across  many  hosts/VMs  – Reports  for  management/other  teams  – Managing  mul'ple  vCenters  

•  Things  I  should  do,  but  may  not  otherwise  – Configura'on  monitoring  – Log  review  

GeRng  Started  

•  Install  PowerShell  (v2  if  possible)  •  Run  “Set-­‐Execu'onPolicy  RemoteSigned”  

•  Install  PowerCLI  4.0  U1  (Maybe  4.1)  

•  Connect-­‐VIServer  <host  or  vCenter>  •  MAGIC  

•  Disconnect-­‐VIServer  

Demo  Recipes  

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Making  Toast  

# List all VMs Get-VM

# Get one VM Get-VM ubuntu01

# Get VMs that match Get-VM ubuntu*  

Boiling  an  Egg  

# List VMs in a Datacenter

Get-Datacenter dc001 | Get-VM

# List VMs in a cluster

Get-Cluster dc001 | Get-VM  

Sieing  Through  What  You  Have  

# Get 2 CPU or larger VMs Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.NumCPU -ge 2}

# Get 2 GB RAM or larger VMs Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.MemoryMB -ge 2048}  

Available  Ingredients  

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Get-Help Get-VM

Get-Member Get-VM | Get-Member  

Addi'onal  Info  

•  Local  Resources  – h9p://vmwarescrip'ng.com  

– h9p://wannemacher.us  

•  Other  – Managing  VMware  Infrastructure  with  Windows  PowerShell  TFM  

– The  VMware  Community  Forums  (LucD)  – Google