Slides for PowerCLI 101 at VMworld 2011

1. PowerCLI 101

2. Why Automate Save Time Reduce Risk Scale

3. Agenda Introduction to PowerShell vCenter management Storage management Automating VM lifecycle

4. PowerShell 101 (Terminology) Cmdlet(pronounced command-lets) are compiled .NET class that perfoma single action on an object. They are named in the <verb>-<singular noun> format. Objects: A collection of properties and methods with a unique type name. Pipeline: Passes whole .NET objects from one cmdlet to another enabling clean powerful syntax.

5. Get-VM | Where-Object {$_.PowerState –eq ‘Powered Off’} | Start-VM | Format-Table Get-VM Format-Table Where-Object Start-VM PowerShell Pipeline Pipeline in Action

6. PowerShell 101 ( Key Cmdlets) Get-Command Get-Help Get-PSDrive Get-Member Format-List

7. Grow Environment! Live Demo

9. Add existing Host and VMs to new vCenter instance.

10. Create a new cluster

12. New-Datacenter

13. Add-VMHost

14. New-Cluster

15. Set-Cluster

17. ZOMG I Needs Storage?! Live Demo

19. Provision new storage on Array

20. Add datastore to hosts

22. Get-Snapshot

23. Get-VMHost

24. New-Datastore

25. Sort-Object

26. Format-Table

27. Remove-Snapshot

28. Set-NaQtree

29. Set-NaNfsExport

30. Move-VM

31. Get-Datastore

32. Connect-NaController

33. New-NaVol

34. Set-NaSis

35. Enable-NaSis

36. Start-NaSis

38. VM Provisioning Live Demo!

40. Create a new VM.

41. Convert VM to VM Template.

42. Deploy multiple VMs from Template.

44. Get-Datacenter

45. Get-VM

46. Get-VMHost

47. New-VM

48. Remove-VM

49. Set-VM

51. Resources Books

52. Resources Blogs

53. Resources Blogs

54. Resources Forums

55. Resources Forums

56. Resources Forums

60. http://powershellcommunity.org

61. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/ITCG/threadsTwitter: Use the hashtag #PowerShell #PowerCLI to get help.