Chapter 14
Automating VMware vSphere
The role of a VMware vSphere administrator has become more demanding as the features and capabilities of the platform are enhanced and integrated with adjacent solutions. VMware continues to ensure that these features are quickly consumable for an administrator, as you have seen throughout this book. However, new features often lead to additional responsibilities, more opportunities for errors or inconsistencies, and lower tolerances for outages of critical and complex workloads.
As a vSphere administrator, you will often need to perform repetitive tasks with increasingly more touch points. Examples include creating multiple virtual machines (VMs) from a template, changing the network configuration on a group of VMs or hosts, migrating VMs to new datastores with Storage vMotion, and gathering information about an environment for internal and external audits. Automation can help you complete these tasks much more quickly, provide greater consistency...
