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PowerCLI Cookbook

You're reading from   PowerCLI Cookbook Over 75 step-by-step recipes to put PowerCLI into action for efficient administration of your virtual environment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393724
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Philip Brandon Sellers Philip Brandon Sellers
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Configuring the Basic Settings of an ESXi Host with PowerCLI FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring vCenter and Computing Clusters 3. Managing Virtual Machines 4. Working with Datastores and Datastore Clusters 5. Creating and Managing Snapshots 6. Managing Resource Pools, Reservations, and Limits for Virtual Machines 7. Creating Custom Reports and Notifications for vSphere 8. Performing ESXCLI and in-guest Commands from PowerCLI 9. Managing DRS and Affinity Groups using PowerCLI 10. Working with vCloud Director from PowerCLI A. Setting up and Configuring vCloud Director Index

Creating a virtual datacenter in vCenter


vSphere has several defined objects that are used to create virtual datacenters. For example, an object named Datacenter sits at the root of vSphere and allows the clusters and other host infrastructures to be placed inside the virtual datacenter. Installations might have multiple datacenters; however, most VMware administrators use additional datacenter objects in vSphere to represent a physical site and use the datacenter object as a boundary where the infrastructure exists. In this recipe, you will take a look at the code needed to create your new datacenter object in vCenter.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need to open a PowerCLI prompt, you need the DNS name or IP address of your vCenter host, and the password for the default administrator account in vCenter.

How to do it…

In order to create a virtual datacenter, and to create new datacenter object in vCenter, perform the following steps:

  1. The first step is to connect to your vCenter server...

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