VMware PowerCLI User's Guide

• About   View
• Updated Information   View
• Introduction to VMware PowerCLI   View
• • Microsoft PowerShell Basics   View
  • • PowerShell Command-Line Syntax   View
    • PowerShell Pipelines   View
    • PowerShell Wildcards   View
    • PowerShell Common Parameters   View
  • PowerCLI Concepts   View
  • • PowerCLI Modules   View
    • Interoperability Between the PowerCLI and vCloud Director PowerCLI Modules   View
    • • Retrieving vSphere Inventory Objects from Cloud Resources   View
    • Selecting Objects in PowerCLI   View
    • Providing Login Credentials   View
    • Running PowerCLI Cmdlets Asynchronously   View
    • Managing Default Server Connections   View
    • Customization Specification Objects in PowerCLI   View
    • Using ESXCLI with PowerCLI   View
    • PowerCLI Inventory Provider   View
    • PowerCLI Datastore Provider   View
    • PowerCLI About Articles   View
• Installing VMware PowerCLI   View
• • Supported Operating Systems   View
  • Supported VMware Products   View
  • Supported Windows PowerShell Versions   View
  • Prerequisites for Installing and Running PowerCLI   View
  • Install PowerCLI   View
  • Allow Execution of Local Scripts   View
  • Update a PowerCLI Module   View
  • Uninstall PowerCLI   View
• Configuring VMware PowerCLI   View
• • Scoped Settings of vSphere PowerCLI   View
  • • Configuring the Scope of the PowerCLI Settings   View
    • Priority of Settings Scopes in PowerCLI   View
    • PowerCLI Configuration Files   View
  • Using Custom Scripts to Extend the Operating System Support for PowerCLI Cmdlets   View
• Configuring Customer Experience Improvement Program   View
• • Categories of Information That VMware Receives   View
  • Join the Customer Experience Improvement Program in PowerCLI   View
• Sample Scripts for Managing vSphere with VMware PowerCLI   View
• • Connect to a vCenter Server System   View
  • Manage Virtual Machines on vSphere   View
  • Add a Standalone Host to a vCenter Server System   View
  • Set the License Key for a Host on vCenter Server   View
  • Activate Maintenance Mode for a Host on vCenter Server   View
  • Create vSphere Inventory Objects   View
  • Create Virtual Machines on vCenter Server Using an XML Specification File   View
  • Manage Virtual Machine Templates on vCenter Server   View
  • Create and Use Snapshots on vCenter Server   View
  • Update the Resource Configuration Settings of a Virtual Machine on vCenter Server   View
  • Get a List of Hosts on a vCenter Server System and View Their Properties   View
  • Change the Host Advanced Configuration Settings on vCenter Server   View
  • Move a Virtual Machine to a Different Host Using VMware vSphere vMotion   View
  • Move a Virtual Machine to a Different Datastore Using VMware vSphere Storage vMotion   View
  • Move a Virtual Machine to a Different vCenter Server System   View
  • Create a Host Profile on a vCenter Server System   View
  • Apply a Host Profile to a Host on vCenter Server   View
  • Manage Statistics and Statistics Intervals on vCenter Server   View
  • Modify the Settings of the NIC Teaming Policy for a Virtual Switch   View
  • Create a vApp on vCenter Server   View
  • Modify the Properties of a vApp   View
  • Export or Import vApps   View
  • Create an iSCSI Host Storage   View
  • Add Passthrough Devices to a Host and Virtual Machine   View
  • Create a Custom Property Based on an Extension Data Property   View
  • Create a Script-Based Custom Property for a vSphere Object   View
  • Apply a Customization Object to a Cloned Virtual Machine   View
  • Modify the Default NIC Mapping Object of a Customization Specification   View
  • Modify Multiple NIC Mapping Objects of a Customization Specification   View
  • Create Multiple Virtual Machines that Use Static IP Addresses   View
  • Create Multiple Virtual Machines with Two Network Adapters   View
  • Create a vSphere Role and Assign Permissions to a User   View
  • View the Action Triggers for an Alarm on vCenter Server   View
  • Create and Modify Alarm Actions and Alarm Triggers on vCenter Server   View
  • Remove Alarm Actions and Triggers   View
  • Create and Modify Advanced Settings for a Cluster   View
  • Modify the vCenter Server Email Configuration   View
  • Modify the vCenter Server SNMP Configuration   View
  • Use Esxtop to Get Information on the Virtual CPUs of a Virtual Machine   View
  • Filter vSphere Objects with Get-View   View
  • Populate a View Object with Get-View   View
  • Update the State of a Server-Side Object   View
  • Reboot a Host with Get-View   View
  • Modify the CPU Levels of a Virtual Machine with Get–View and Get–VIObjectByVIView   View
  • Browse the Default Inventory Drive   View
  • Create a New Custom Inventory Drive   View
  • Manage Inventory Objects Through Inventory Drives   View
  • Browse the Default Datastore Drives   View
  • Create a New Custom Datastore Drive   View
  • Manage Datastores Through Datastore Drives   View
  • Modify the Timeout Setting for Web Tasks   View
  • Using Tags   View
  • • Retrieve a Tag and Save It into a Variable   View
    • Retrieve a Tag Category and Save It into a Variable   View
    • Create a Tag Category and a Tag   View
    • Assign a Tag to Virtual Machines   View
    • Retrieve Objects by Tag   View
    • Generate Tags Automatically by Using a Script   View
    • Add an Entity Type to a Tag Category   View
    • Retrieve Tag Assignments   View
  • Network Management with vSphere Distributed Switches   View
  • • Create a Distributed Switch and Configure Networking   View
    • Configure a Distributed Switch   View
    • Migrate Virtual Machine Networking Configuration from a vSphere Standard Switch to a vSphere Distributed Switch   View
    • Migrate Physical and Virtual NICs to a vSphere Standard Switch   View
    • Migrate Physical and Virtual NICs to a vSphere Distributed Switch   View
    • Configure the Traffic Shaping Policy   View
    • Configure the Security Policy   View
  • Create a Virtual Machine from a Content Library Item   View
  • Create a vApp from a Content Library Item   View
  • Create a New VM-VM DRS Rule   View
  • Create a New VM-VMHost DRS Rule   View
• Sample Scripts for Managing vSphere Policy-Based Storage with VMware PowerCLI   View
• • Create a Tag-Based Storage Policy   View
  • Create a Capability-Based Storage Policy   View
  • Associate a Storage Policy with a Virtual Machine and Its Hard Disk   View
  • Disassociate a Storage Policy Associated with a Virtual Machine and Its Hard Disk   View
  • Enable SPBM on a Cluster and Verify that It Is Enabled   View
  • Remove a Storage Policy   View
  • Edit a Storage Policy   View
  • Export and Import a Storage Policy   View
  • Create a Virtual Machine in a Datastore Compatible with Storage Policy   View
  • Create a vSAN Datastore   View
  • Modify a vSAN Datastore   View
  • Create a vSAN Stretched Cluster   View
  • Create an NFS 4.1 Datastore   View
  • Add a VASA Provider and Create a Policy   View
  • Invoke a Planned Failover on a Replication Group and Reverse the Replication   View
  • Attach a Flat VDisk to a Virtual Machine   View
• Sample Scripts for Managing VMware Site Recovery Manager with VMware PowerCLI   View
• • Connect to an SRM Server   View
  • Protect a Virtual Machine   View
  • Create a Report of the Protected Virtual Machines   View
  • Create a Report of the Virtual Machines Associated with All Protection Groups   View
• Sample Scripts for Managing the vSphere Automation SDK with VMware PowerCLI   View
• • Create a Local Content Library on an Existing Datastore   View
• Sample Scripts for Managing vCloud Director with VMware PowerCLI   View
• • Connect to a vCloud Director Server   View
  • Create and Manage Organizations   View
  • Create and Manage Organization Virtual Data Centers   View
  • Filter and Retrieve Organization Virtual Data Center Networks   View
  • Import a vApp Template from the Local Storage   View
  • Create a vApp Template from a vApp   View
  • Import a vApp from vSphere   View
  • Create and Modify a vApp   View
  • Manage Virtual Machines with vApps   View
  • Manage Virtual Machines and Their Guest Operating Systems   View
  • Retrieve a List of the Internal and External IP Addresses of Virtual Machines in vApps   View
  • Create and Manage Access Control Rules   View
  • Filter and Retrieve vApp Networks   View
  • Create vApp Networks for a Selected vApp   View
  • • Create an Isolated vApp Network   View
    • Create an NAT Routed vApp Network   View
    • Create a Direct vApp Network   View
  • Modify or Remove vApp Networks   View
• Sample Scripts for Managing vSphere Update Manager with VMware PowerCLI   View
• • Connect to a vCenter Server System   View
  • Create Patch Baselines   View
  • Attach and Detach Baselines   View
  • Scan a Virtual Machine   View
  • Check Virtual Machine Baseline Status   View
  • Stage Patches   View
  • Remediate a Virtual Machine   View
  • Upgrade Virtual Machine Hardware   View
  • Remediate a Cluster   View
  • Remediate a Host   View
  • Download Patches and Scan Objects   View
• Sample Scripts for Managing vRealize Operations Manager with VMware PowerCLI   View
• • Connect to a vRealize Operations Manager Server   View
  • Check Memory Waste Levels   View
  • Get Remediation Recommendations   View
  • Change Alert Ownership   View
  • Create a Report for Problematic Hosts   View
• Sample Scripts for Managing VMware Cloud on AWS with VMware PowerCLI   View
• • Connecting to VMware Cloud on AWS   View
  • Connect to VMware Cloud on AWS by Using an API Token   View
  • Connect to VMware Cloud on AWS by Using an OAuth Security Context   View
  • Connect to a vCenter Server System Running in VMware Cloud on AWS   View
  • Connect to a vCenter Server System by Using an OAuth 2.0 Authentication   View
  • Connect to a Specific Instance of VMware Cloud on AWS   View