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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7,

You're reading from   Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, Effectively deploy, manage, and monitor your virtual datacenter with VMware vSphere 6.7

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789613377
Length 756 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started FREE CHAPTER
2. Evolution to vSphere 6.7 3. Designing and Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure 4. Analysis and Assessment of Existing Environments 5. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation 6. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.7 7. Life Cycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading 8. Section 2: Managing Resources
9. Managing Networking Resources 10. Managing Storage Resources 11. VM Deployment and Management 12. VM Resource Management 13. Section 3: Advanced Topics
14. Availability and Disaster Recovery 15. Securing and Protecting Your Environment 16. Analyzing and Optimizing Your Environment 17. Troubleshooting Your Environment 18. Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment
19. Building Your Own VMware vSphere Lab 20. Assessment 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Automating tasks with scripts

The administration of the vSphere environment often requires you to perform repetitive tasks that can be time-consuming, involving the same activities to be done for each component of the infrastructure. Examples of these kinds of activities include migrating VMs or deploying new VMs from a template.

The chance to automate some tasks will allow you to optimize your time, improving efficiency and ensuring consistency. Manually modifying the configuration of thousands VMs, for example, will require a lot of time, with the risk of missing some steps or making some errors. Automation can perform the same tasks in seconds with no errors and ensure consistency within the network, reducing the workload of IT staff.

VMware offers some tools to automate tasks, such as PowerCLI, vCLI, vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), and the vSphere Web Services SDK. vSphere Management...

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