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Learning PowerCLI

You're reading from   Learning PowerCLI A comprehensive guide on PowerCLI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786468017
Length 562 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to PowerCLI FREE CHAPTER 2. Learning Basic PowerCLI Concepts 3. Working with Objects in PowerShell 4. Managing vSphere Hosts with PowerCLI 5. Managing Virtual Machines with PowerCLI 6. Managing Virtual Networks with PowerCLI 7. Managing Storage 8. Managing High Availability and Clustering 9. Managing vCenter Server 10. Patching ESXi Hosts and Upgrading Virtual Machines 11. Managing VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Air 12. Using Site Recovery Manager 13. Using vRealize Operations Manager 14. Using REST API to manage NSX and vRealize Automation 15. Reporting with PowerCLI

Using tags


Tags are labels that you can attach to objects in the vSphere inventory. Every object can have zero, one, or many tags attached. You can use tags to group objects based on anything you want.

For example, you can create a John Doe tag that specifies the owner of a virtual machine is John Doe. Using the John Doe tag, you can easily find all of the virtual machines owned by John Doe.

Tag categories are used to group related tags together. Every tag must belong to a tag category. At the creation of a tag category, you can specify to which object types the tags in this tag category can be attached. You can also specify if only one, or more than one, tag in the tag category can be attached to an object.

Continuing the preceding example, you can create a tag category, Owner, which contains the tags for each owner. You can apply this tag category to the virtual machine objects. If you want your virtual machines to have only one owner, you can specify that only one tag from the Owner tag...

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