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VMware vCenter Cookbook

You're reading from   VMware vCenter Cookbook Over 65 hands-on recipes to help you efficiently manage your vSphere environment with VMware vCenter

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ISBN-13 9781783553976
Length 302 pages
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Konstantin Kuminsky is a VMware-, Microsoft-, and Cisco-certified IT professional with over 10 years of experience in different areas of the IT industry, including virtualization, networking, and security. His experience includes the support of Tier 3 Data Centre, the management of private Clouds, the administration of second- and third-level help desk and on-call support, as well as the deployment and support of various redundant systems and environments with high security requirements. Konstantin is also the author of Implementing vCenter Server, published by Packt Publishing, which covers general aspects of vCenter implementation and usage.
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Preface 1. vCenter Basic Tasks and Features FREE CHAPTER 2. Increasing Environment Availability 3. Increasing Environment Scalability 4. Improving Environment Efficiency 5. Optimizing Resource Usage 6. Basic Administrative Tasks 7. Improving Environment Manageability Index

Automating VM deployments

In situations when there is a requirement to deploy many VMs in a short period of time, the process can be automated using PowerCLI scripts.

Note

PowerCLI is not the only way to automate deployments in vSphere. VMware provides an Application Program Interface (API) and Software Development Kit (SDK), which can be used in conjunction with several languages to automate a broad range of tasks in vSphere. More information is available at https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/.

PowerCLI is a snap-in for Windows PowerShell to manage the vSphere environment. It allows administrators to automate any management tasks, including tasks related to guest OS and storage. The tool comes with over 300 cmdlets as well as documentation and examples. PowerCLI is free and can be downloaded from http://my.vmware.com.

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Make sure the version being installed is compatible with the vSphere and PowerShell versions in the environment.

Getting ready

Before creating and testing a VM...

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Konstantin Kuminsky is a VMware-, Microsoft-, and Cisco-certified IT professional with over 10 years of experience in different areas of the IT industry, including virtualization, networking, and security. His experience includes the support of Tier 3 Data Centre, the management of private Clouds, the administration of second- and third-level help desk and on-call support, as well as the deployment and support of various redundant systems and environments with high security requirements. Konstantin is also the author of Implementing vCenter Server, published by Packt Publishing, which covers general aspects of vCenter implementation and usage.
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