Mastering PowerCLI

Working with ports

So far, we have worked with host, switch, and port groups; now, let's explore how we can get details of a port and modify it. To manage a port, we will use the following two cmdlets:

• Get-VDPort
• Set-VDPort

We can get the details of the port using the Get-VDPort cmdlet and set details via the Set-VDPort cmdlet.

Configuring traffic shaping

We can use PowerCLI to configure traffic shaping in distributed ports, and we can use the following two cmdlets to configure it:

• Get-VDTrafficShapingPolicy
• Set-VDTrafficShapingPolicy

Obviously, Get-VDTrafficShapingPolicy will provide you with the details of the current policy set and Set-VDTrafficShapingPolicy ...