VMware vSphere 5: Automation with vSphere PowerCLI v5.0

System administrators or technical personnel responsible for managing or automating vSphere system administration tasks.

By the end of the course, you should gain an understanding of the capabilities of vSphere PowerCLI and be able to do the following:

• Run vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets at the command prompt and in scripts
• Connect vSphere PowerCLI to a VMware vCenter Server™ system and a VMware ESXi™ host
• Automate VMware ESXi® configuration tasks
• Automate the provisioning of virtual machines
• Automate the configuration and modification of virtual machines
• Automate cluster configuration and management
• Automate reporting about virtual machines, ESXi hosts, clusters, and resource pools

Módulo 1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course goals and objectives

Módulo 2 Introduction to Windows PowerShell and VMware vSphere PowerCLI
• Introduce and describe Windows PowerShell cmdlets
• Describe Windows PowerShell and vSphere PowerCLI features like parameters, pipelines, filtering, variables, scripting, methods, functions, assignment operators, and execution policies
• List types of vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets
• Use the Get-help cmdlet
• Execute commands at the command prompt and create and execute a script
• Connect vSphere PowerCLI to an ESXi host or vCenter Server system
• Get information about an ESXi host
• Create a datacenter and add an ESXi host to it
• Use basic programming features: loops, if-conditions, arrays

Módulo 3 Automating VMware ESXi Host Configuration
• Use vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets to find the number of physical network interface cards available on a host
• Create, configure, and modify a standard or distributed virtual switch
• Add and remove a DNS server on an ESXi host
• Configure NTP on an ESXi host
• Find and display storage paths
• Add and modify a VMware vSphere VMFS datastore
• Rescan ESXi storage
• Configure an iSCSI software adapter
• Create and apply a host profile
• Test an ESXi host for host profile compliance
• Back up and restore an ESXi host configuration

Módulo 4 Virtual Machine Provisioning, Configuration, and Protection
• Create a virtual machine
• Create a virtual machine template and use a template to deploy a virtual machine
• Create a customization specification for an operating system
• Use an XML or .csv file specification to create virtual machines
• Install an operating system and VMware Tools
• Modify virtual machine hardware configuration, including vCPUs, memory, NICs, virtual disks, and raw device mapping disks
• Change virtual machine power state
• List information about virtual machines
• Create and manage virtual machine snapshots

Módulo 5 Migration and Clustering
• Use VMware vMotion® to migrate a virtual machine
• Use Storage vMotion to migrate virtual machine storage
• Use cold migration to migrate a virtual machine
• Configure a host to support vMotion migration
• Create and modify a vCenter Server cluster
• Move an ESXi host into and out of a cluster
• Use a host profile to manage a cluster
• Create and manage resource pools
• Place an ESXi host in maintenance mode

Módulo 6 Automating Reporting
• Retrieve virtual machine properties, including the IP address; storage capacity and free space; active CD connections or snapshots; limits, reservations, and shares settings, operating system type; and power state
• Gather virtual machine performance information for specific parameters, for specific time periods, and display the information in various output formats
• Retrieve ESXi host properties, including datastore connections, the number of hosted virtual machines, configured virtual switches, storage capacity and utilization report, and triggered alarms
• Retrieve cluster and resource pool properties