Mastering PowerCLI

Chapter 7. Managing Virtual Machines

In the previous chapters, we discussed the different aspects of building and automating a vSphere environment using PowerCLI. In this chapter, we will discuss how to manage virtual machines. In general, we will discuss the following topics:

• Creating and managing virtual machines
• Modifying virtual machines
• Managing templates
• Managing OS customization specifications
• Managing the guest OS
• Managing vApps

We will start our discussion with the creation of VMs and other hardware-related aspects of a VM.

Creating virtual machines

We will use the following cmdlets to manage the different aspects of managing a virtual machine in a vSphere environment using PowerCLI cmdlets:

• Get-VM
• Move-VM
• New-VM
• Remove-VM
• Set-VM

We will start by creating ...