Preface

VMware vSphere PowerCLI is a command-line automation and scripting tool that provides a Windows PowerShell interface to the VMware vSphere and vCloud products.

Learning PowerCLI shows you how to install and use PowerCLI to automate the management of your VMware vSphere environment. With lots of examples, this book will teach you how to manage vSphere from the command line and how to create advanced PowerCLI scripts.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to PowerCLI, gets you started using PowerCLI. First, you will see how to download and install PowerCLI. Then, you will learn to connect to and disconnect from the vCenter and ESXi servers and retrieve a list of all of your hosts and virtual machines.

Chapter 2, Learning Basic PowerCLI ...

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