The presentation given at the Dutch VMUG in 2010 by Alan Renouf and Luc Dekens

1. PowerCLI is for Administrators Luc Dekens Alan Renouf terry.mathew@bell.ca

3. EMC vSpecialist

4. Blog http://www.virtu-al.net/

6. Eurocontrol Maastricht

7. Blog http://lucd.info/

9. PowerShell is the universal language for Windows datacenters

10. GUI interfaces are single purpose and rigid

11. Microsoft Common Engineering Criteria program

12. Cmdlets are in a Verb-Noun format

13. Microsoft making admin tasks PowerShell enabled

14. Exchange

15. SQL Server

16. IIS 7

17. More

19. PowerCLI 4.1 U1 adds 258 cmdlets to PowerShell

20. PowerCLI is built on the vSphere APIs

21. PowerCLI is for all your vSphere administration tasks

23. Alan Renouf

24. Arnim Van Lieshout

25. Jonathan Medd

26. Glenn Sizemore

27. Released early 2011

31. Host Profiles (Ent +) - $$$$

32. PowerCLI

33. Storage

34. Networking

35. Advanced FeaturesDEMO

37. Folders

38. Roles

39. Permissions

40. Alarms

41. …DEMO

42. Folder structure Export-Folders"Blue""DC1""C:lueFolders.csv" Import-Folders-FolderType"blue"-DC"DC2"` -Filename"C:lueFolders.csv"

44. No export/import cmdlets

45. Serialising/deserialing objects

46. Simple solution !DEMO

48. As part of the migration

49. … or as a part of your DR procedureDEMO

51. Interaction with the guest OS

52. WMI

53. PowerShellRemoting

54. Invoke-VMScript

55. Testing VMotion and SVMotion

56. Move-VM

57. BackupsDEMO

59. Numerous possibilities !

61. Normally retro-active

62. Can be done ‘direct’

63. Showcase for the integration with WinFormsDEMO

68. Why not ?

69. What is holding you back ?

70. Are you blocked in a PowerCLI script ?

71. Do you have tasks you cant do with PowerCLI ?