Mastering PowerCLI

Creating a vSphere scheduled task

In this section, we will discuss ways in which we can create a vSphere scheduled task using the vSphere API through PowerCLI. For this, we will use the ServiceInstance managed object. This is the singleton root object in the inventory.

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For more details, please check the vSphere API documentation at Managed Object Types | ServiceInstance (http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/index.jsp#com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc/vim.ServiceInstance.html).

To create a scheduled task, we will use the CreateScheduledTask method. If we examine the method, we can see that this method takes two inputs: an entity (MoRef) and a specification (ScheduledTaskSpec).

To create a task, we need to create a scheduled task specification. This in ...