Getting the VMware host object
Cmdlets become available to manage a host after we connect to that host to manage it. The first concept that you will need to become aware of are PowerShell objects. Objects are defined as data obtained from commands that run in PowerShell and PowerCLI. To perform configuration on an ESXi host, the commands that you run will need a host object, which is specified.
In this recipe, you will learn how to obtain a VMHost object.
Getting ready
To begin with, open a PowerCLI window and connect to an ESXi host or a vCenter instance.
How to do it...
- PowerCLI is straightforward. To retrieve an ESXi host object, just run the following command line:
Get-VMHost - After running the
Get-VMHostcmdlet, an object that contains one or more ...
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