PowerCLI Cookbook

Chapter 3. Managing Virtual Machines

In this chapter, you will cover the following recipes:

• Deploying the first virtual machine
• Cloning a virtual machine to a template
• Deploying new virtual machines from a template
• Importing a virtual appliance from OVA
• Performing a hot add of virtual hardware to an existing virtual machine
• Enabling and disabling Fault Tolerance on a virtual machine
• Increasing the disk space in a virtual machine
• Upgrading the virtual hardware version of a virtual machine
• Locating and reloading inaccessible or invalid virtual machines
• Setting VMware Tool settings from PowerCLI
• Creating basic reports of VM properties using VMware Tools and PowerCLI

Introduction

In the first two chapters of this book, you created a base platform that will allow ...