TA6944 PowerCLI is for Administrators!

VMworld 2010 - San Francisco - TA6944PowerCLI is for Administrators!
Alan Renouf & Luc Dekens

Who Are we ?
Alan
vExpert 2009 & 2010
EMC vSpecialist
Blog http://www.virtu-al.net/
Podcast http://get-scripting.blogspot.com/
Luc
vExpert 2009 & 2010
Eurocontrol Maastricht
Blog http://lucd.info/
LucD on the VMTN PowerCLI community

Agenda
Introduction
Request 1: Deploy guests
Request 2: Move the guests around
Request 3: Simplify through GUI
Request 4: Network update
Request 5: Report on what is there
Request 6: Capacity planning
Request 7: Visit of the auditors
Request 8: Single-pane-of-glass

Introduction
PowerCLI is for all your vSphere administration tasks
PowerCLI is extended with each release
PowerCLI is build on the vSphere APIs
Easy to call other public APIs
PowerShell is the ‘lingua franca’ for Windows datacenters
Active Community: PowerShell and PowerCLI

Agenda
Introduction

Deploy guests 1
First step in life-cycle management
New or from a template
Number of clicks in the vSPhere client
PowerCLI helps to automate this process
DEMO

Deploy guests 2
Import-Csv C:TempServers.csv | Foreach {
New-VM –Name $_.Name `
-VMHost (Get-VMHost virtuesx1*) `
-Datastore (Get-Datastore ix2*) `
-DiskMB $_.OSDisk `
-MemoryMB $_.Mem `
-NumCpu $_.NumCPU `
-Location (Get-Folder $_.Project) `
-RunAsync
}

Agenda
Introduction

Move guests 1
Selecting guests
Complicated selection criteria
vMotion
svMotion

Move guests 2
# vMotion
Move-VM –Name ACME-DC01 `
-Destination (Get-Cluster Cluster01)
# svMotion
Move-VM –Name ACME-DC01 `
-Datastore (Get-Datastore DS1)

Agenda
Introduction

GUI
Still a lot of typing involved
vEcoShell/PowerGUI
PowerPacks: collection of actions

Agenda
Introduction

Network update 1
Change portgroups and VLAN
Distributed switches: not yet available
Use vSphere APIs to extend your options
vSphere API Referenceis indispensable!
And Onyx can guide you!

Network update 2

Network update 3

Network update 4

Network update 5
function New-dvSwPVLAN{
param($dvSw, $primaryNr, [int[]] $secondaryNr, [string[]] $secondaryType)
$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSConfigSpec
# Primary
$pvlan = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPvlanConfigSpec
$pvlan.operation = "add"
$pvlan.pvlanEntry = New-Object VMware.Vim.VMwareDVSPvlanMapEntry
$pvlan.pvlanEntry.primaryVlanId = $primaryNr
…
$taskMoRef = $dvSw.ReconfigureDvs_Task($spec)
…
}
Full script on http://lucd.info

Agenda
Introduction

reporting
First encounter with PowerCLI for most
The information is out there
Know what is available
PowerCLI 4.1 introduced new features:
the ExtensionDataproperty
The New-VIPropertycmdlet
Use the PowerShell to create different types of files
Builtin: CSV, Html, text…
COM interface: Office documents (Visio, Word, Excel)

Agenda
Introduction

Capacity planning 1
vSPhere has historical statistical data
Get-Stat is your friend!
How to get the data in the format you want
Create Office documents from PS through COM objects

Statistical intervals
Full article on http://lucd.info

Find the metrics 1

Find the metrics 2

Capacity planning 2
Think before you write the script
Use PowerShell to your advantage
Group-Object is your friend!
Use COM to produce Office documents

Capacity planning 3

Capacity planning 4
Export-Xls -Path $fileName -WorksheetName "Memory" -ChartType "xlLine"

Agenda
Introduction

Audit 1
vSPhere keeps track of tasks and events
How to get at the information?

Audit 2
Script to CSV
vSphere API Reference

Audit 3

Audit 4

Agenda
Introduction

Single pane of glass
Integrate with your monitoring tool
PowerShell is in SCOM 2007 R2
Roll your own scripts
Use PowerWF Studio to create a Management Pack

Conclusion
PowerCLI covers all your vSphere administration tasks
Easy access to the Web Services
PowerShell is omnipresent
Easily integrates with your Windows environment
Access .Net, Office, Back-Office… features/components

Book
We are writing a PowerCLI book
A ‘practical’ book
4 vExperts and a MVP !
Available: 2011 Q1

Links & references
PowerCLI
Update Manager
Onyx
PowerCLI Community
PowerCLI Blog
vEcoShell
PowerWFStudio
Podcasts: Get-Scripting & PowerScripting

PowerCLI Poster
They are big !
Easy to fold
Plenty for everyone !

SUPPORT AND TRAINING
VMware vSphere Automation
2 day instructor led course, 40% Lecture, 60% hands on lab
Available worldwide, use PSO credits
http://vmware.com/go/vsphereautomation
VMware Scripting and SDK Support
Dedicated help when developing scripts / applications
Expert API engineers happy to help
http://vmware.com/go/sdksupport

PowerCLI is for admins!

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TA6944 PowerCLI is for Administrators!

by Alan Renouf on Oct 16, 2010

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