Day to Day Automation of VMware Products to Increase Productivity and Efficiency

1. Day to Day Automation of VMware Products
to Increase Productivity and Efficiency
Brian Graf, VMware, Inc
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2. • This presentation may contain product features that are currently under development.
• This overview of new technology represents no commitment from VMware to deliver these
features in any generally available product.
• Features are subject to change, and must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or
sales agreements of any kind.
• Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.
• Pricing and packaging for any new technologies or features discussed or presented have not
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Disclaimer
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3. Who Am I?
• Brian Graf
– Senior Technical Marketing Manager – Vmware
– PowerCLI Automation, ESXi Lifecycle, ROBO
• vExpert, VCAP5-DCA/DCD
• VMware Blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/
• Personal Blog: http://www.vtagion.com
• Twitter: @vBrianGraf
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4. Agenda
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1
Getting Started
• Background
• Who is PowerCLI for? No, but really…
2
PowerCLI Use Cases
• What do people use PowerCLI for?
• Why should YOU use PowerCLI?
• Examples and demos of PowerCLI in action.
3
Performance
• What’s coming in the next release?

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Many of us have become very comfortable in performing tasks manually in the desktop
client or the vSphere Web Client, but doing things manually will always take more time and
be more prone to errors, as opposed to automating them. Come learn how easy our
automation solution is and how you can start automating actions, reports, and processes in
your virtual environment today! We will discuss how to perform bulk actions against objects
in the environment, create fast and valuable reports, and how to move away from all the
manual and redundant tasks. If you do something more than once, you should automate it.
If you are a PowerCLI beginner or haven’t even tried PowerCLI this session is for you. Stop
wasting your time and learn how to reclaim your day, the PowerCLI way.
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Many of us have become very comfortable in performing tasks manually in the desktop
client or the vSphere Web Client, but doing things manually will always take more time and
be more prone to errors, as opposed to automating them. Come learn how easy our
automation solution is and how you can start automating actions, reports, and processes in
your virtual environment today! We will discuss how to perform bulk actions against objects
in the environment, create fast and valuable reports, and how to move away from all the
manual and redundant tasks. If you do something more than once, you should automate it.
If you are a PowerCLI beginner or haven’t even tried PowerCLI this session is for you. Stop
wasting your time and learn how to reclaim your day, the PowerCLI way.
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6. Microsoft® PowerShell™ – Overview
• Microsoft PowerShell is the foundation of PowerCLI
• The best shell today for Windows Environments
– Easy to learn and understand
– Built for system administrators, not for programmers
– Object Orientated
– Extended to the entire Datacenter
• Microsoft is serious about it
– So is VMware
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7. PowerCLI – Overview
• Command line tool that leverages Microsoft PowerShell
• The best shell for automating and managing your
virtual environment
– Follows PowerShell syntax and command verbs
– Almost 500 cmdlets for working with vSphere environments
– 10+ Products and technologies, and more to come!
– PowerCLI 6.0 is backwards compatible to vSphere 5.0
– No license required
– Improved through community feedback
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8. Who is Powercli Meant For?
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Basic Admins Advanced Admins Developers Management
Day-to-day
Administration
Work with
vSphere API
Create .NET
Applications
Reporting
Mass Configuration
Changes
Create Advanced
Functions
DevOps Auditing
Health reports Parallel Jobs
GUI / App
Overlays
Forecasting

9. PowerCLI Use Cases

10. What Do People Use Powercli For?
Save time through automation
Simplify automated tasks and user workflows
Diagnose, explore and resolve issues
Make large scale changes in a consistent and auditable way
Produce customized reporting
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11. Produce Customized Reporting
– Complex queries for the entire SDDC
• Combination of data from VMware & 3rd party software and
hardware
– Output usage information for license purposes
– Create audit reports for best practices
– Export configuration information
– Security Auditing (See Hardening Guide)
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Get-VM | Select-Object Name, NumCPU, MemoryMB,
PowerState, Host | Export-CSV Simple_Inventory.csv
-NoTypeInformation
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13. Reporting – What Should I Report?
• General Details
– # of Hosts
– # of VMs
– # of Templates
– # of Clusters
– # of Datastores
– # of Active VMs
– # of Inactive VMs
– # of DRS Migrations for the last days
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• VM Details
– VMs created over the last x days
– VMs removed over the last x days
– VMs with no Tools installed
– VMs with CD-Roms connected
– VMs with Floppy Drives Connected
– VMs with CPU ready over x%
– VMs with over x amount of vCPUs
• Host Details
– Hosts in Maintenance Mode
– Hosts in disconnected state
– NTP Server check for a given NTP
Name
– NTP Service check
– Host active Alerts
– ESXi hosts without Lockdown
enabled
– ESXi hosts with unsupported mode
enabled
• And much much more…

14. Save Time Through Automation
We enable our customers to:
– Remove the “Human Error Aspect” by enabling them to
produce repeatable tested scripts
– Manage VMware and 3rd Party software and hardware
– Provide automation tasks that are not native to the product
– Quickly produce Prototype tools
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15. Make Large Scale Changes in a Consistent and Auditable Way
• We enable our customers to configure multiple VMware SDDC Environments from the same
interface
• Easily define changes and execute them in large scale environments
• Deploy new VMware products and features
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Customers no longer manage 1 or 10 Servers, its often 100s or 1000s
vCloud Air
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16. PowerCLI Basics – Connect to vCenter
PowerCLI Command:
Connect-VIServer –Server 10.144.99.9 –User administrator@vSphere.local
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17. PowerCLI Command:
New-VICredentialStoreItem –Host 10.144.99.9 `
–user administrator@vsphere.local –password vmware1!
Get-VICredentialStoreItem
PowerCLI Basics – Store vCenter Credentials
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18. PowerCLI Basics
Get-VM
PowerCLI Command:
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19. PowerCLI Basics
Get-VM -Name “MGMT*"
PowerCLI Command:
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20. PowerCLI Basics
(Get-VM).Count
PowerCLI Command:
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21. PowerCLI Basics – Datastores
Get-Datastore
PowerCLI Command:
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22. PowerCLI Basics - Datastores
Get-Datastore –name Green
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PowerCLI Command:
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23. PowerCLI Basics - Datastores
$ds = Get-Datastore –name Green
PowerCLI Command:
Get-VM -Datastore $ds | Start-VM
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24. PowerCLI Basics – Finding Commands
PowerCLI Command:
Get-Command *VM*
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25. PowerCLI Basics – Getting Help
PowerCLI Command:
Get-Help New-VM -Examples
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26. Taking Action! – Modifying Bulk Objects
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Get-VMHost | Add-VMHostNtpServer 198.60.73.8
Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostFirewallException |
where ` {$_.Name -eq "NTP client"} | `
Set-VMHostFirewallException -Enabled:$true
Get-VMHost | Get-VmHostService | Where-Object
` {$_.key -eq "ntpd"} | Start-VMHostService
Get-VMhost | Get-VmHostService | Where-Object
` {$_.key -eq "ntpd"} | Set-VMHostService -
policy "automatic"
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27. DEMO – Using what we’ve learned

28. Mass Portgroup Migration
$Cluster = "Staging"
$CurrentPG = "vDS-Staging01"
$NewPG = "vDS-Staging02"
Get-Cluster $Cluster | Get-VM | Get-NetworkAdapter | `
Where {$_.NetworkName -eq $CurrentPG } | Set-NetworkAdapter `
-NetworkName $NewPG -Confirm:$false
PowerCLI Command:
vSphere Distributed Switch
vDS-Staging01 vDS-Staging02
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29. Diagnose, Explore and Resolve Issues
• We enable our customers to
• Resolve problems that can not be solved through
the UI
– Exploration -> Diagnoses -> Resolution
• Access Physical Console diagnostics (ESXCLI)
• Easily step through their troubleshooting process
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30. PowerCLI GUI’s?!

31. There is a Time and Place for Everything…
• Larger actions are taking place
• More sophisticated queries / settings that would result in a very long function
• Interaction within the scripts
• The user is uncomfortable working in a CLI
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32. There is a Time and Place for Everything…
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33. GUI Demo/Example

34. VMware Products
And how PowerCLI can work with them

35. vCloud Air Cmdlets
Extensibility of High-Level Cmdlets
to the cloud

36. New in PowerCLI 6.0: Manage vCloudAir
• Manage On-Premises and vCloud air in the same console
• 100+ Cmdlets to work with the Cloud
• “Tenant” PowerCLI removed
• Optional Install in PowerCLI
• Connect to multiple Clouds
• Get-CIView gives entire public API
• Store credentials for easy connection
• Report
• Troubleshoot
• Automate
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vCloud
AIr
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37. New in PowerCLI 6.0: Manage vCloud Air
Example PowerCLI code for some of the new vCloud Air cmdlets:
Connect to default vCloud Air Instance
Connect-PIServer –Username me@mycompany.com –Password VMware1!
List all vCloud Air Datacenters you have access to
Get-PIDatacenter
Connect to all vCloud Air Datacenters you have access to
Get-PIDatacenter | Connect-PIDatacenter
Connect-PIServer
Disconnect-PIServer
Get-PIDatacenter
Cmdlets:
“CI” Cmdlets now have a “PI” Alias and
work with vCloud Air
Updated Cmdlets:
vCloud
AIr
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38. Manage vCloud Air
Connect-PIServer
Disconnect-PIServer
Get-PIDatacenter
Cmdlets:
“CI” Cmdlets now have a “PI” Alias and
work with vCloud Air
Updated Cmdlets:
vCloud
AIr
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Example PowerCLI code for some of the new vCloud Air cmdlets:

39. VSAN Cmdlets

40. New in PowerCLI 6.0: VSAN Cmdlets
Example PowerCLI code for some of the new VSAN cmdlets:
Enable the VSAN VMKernel Network for a host
Get-VMHost Host1 | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMKernel | Where {$_.PortGroupName -eq "Management
Network" } | Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VsanTrafficEnabled $true -Confirm:$false
Enable VSAN on Cluster1 and set to Automatic Disk Claim Mode
Get-Cluster Cluster1 | Set-Cluster -VsanEnabled:$true -VsanDiskClaimMode Automatic -Confirm:$false
List Hosts and Disk Groups
Get-VsanDiskGroup | Select VMHost, Name | FT -AutoSize
Get-VsanDisk
New-VsanDisk
Remove-VsanDisk
Cmdlets:
Get-VsanDiskGroup
New-VsanDiskGroup
Remove-VsanDiskGroup
New-Cluster
Set-Cluster
Updated Cmdlets:
New-VMHostNetworkAdapter
Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter
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41. New in PowerCLI 6.0: VSAN Cmdlets
Example PowerCLI code for enabling VSAN:
Get-VsanDisk
New-VsanDisk
Remove-VsanDisk
Cmdlets:
Get-VsanDiskGroup
New-VsanDiskGroup
Remove-VsanDiskGroup
New-Cluster
Set-Cluster
Updated Cmdlets:
New-VMHostNetworkAdapter
Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter
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42. vRealize Operations

43. vRealize Operations Cmdlets
Example PowerCLI code for some of the new vRealize Operations cmdlets:
New Cmdlets:
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Get-OMAlert
Get-OMAlertDefinition
Get-OMAlertSubType
Get-OMAlertType
Get-OMRecommendation
Get-OMResource
Get-OMStat
Get-OMStatKey
Get-OMUser
Set-OMAlert
Connect-OMServer
Disconnect-OMServer
# Connect to vRealize Operations Manager
Connect-OMServer 10.134.14.26 -user administrator -password VMware1!
# Get current Alerts
$alert = Get-OMAlert
# Get the Alert Definitioins
Get-OMAlertDefinition -Name $alert

44. Site Recovery Manager
Low-Level API access

45. Site-Recovery Manager
Example PowerCLI code advanced SRM:
$SrmConnection = Connect-SrmServer 10.20.181.32
$SrmConnection | Get-Member
$SrmApi = $SrmConnection.ExtensionData
$SrmApi
$SrmApi.Recovery.ListPlans()
Connect-SRMServer
Disconnect-SRMServer
Cmdlets:
Leverages Site Recovery Manager API
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46. VMware NSX
REST API calls from PowerCLI

47. Cmdlets for NSX?
Example PowerCLI code advanced NSX functions:
$Credential = Get-Credential
Connect-NSXManager -NSXIP 10.144.99.22 -NSXPassword VMware1! -vCIP 10.144.99.15 -Credential $Credential
# --- Create REST Headers
$Auth = "admin" + ':' + $NSXPassword
$Encoded = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Auth)
$EncodedPassword = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($Encoded)
$Headers = @{"Authorization"="Basic $($EncodedPassword)";}
# --- Send REST call and process results
$uri = "https://$NSXIP/api/2.0/services/vcconfig"
$body = "<vcInfo><ipAddress>$vCIP</ipAddress>"
$body += "<userName>$vcuser</userName><password>"
$body += "$vcpass</password></vcInfo>"
There are none
Cmdlets:
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48. What’s New – Tech Preview

49. PowerCLI Tech Preview – What’s New?

50. PS> Whats-New
• New module and product support for vRealize Operations
• Even more storage management and automation with:
• vSphere Storage API Cmdlets
• NFS User Cmdlets
• Updated vSphere API for IO Filtering Cmdlets
• Connect and manage On-Demand resources in vCloud Air
• Updated vCloud Air Cmdlets for networking
• Host hardware information
• Update Manager now included in core installer for simpler and quicker deployment
• Updated Support for SRM 6.1
• Licensing Snapin converted to Module
PowerCLI Tech Preview – What’s New?

51. Tech Preview
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New Cmdlets: New Cmdlets: New Cmdlets:
Operations Manager:
Get-OMAlert
Get-OMAlertDefinition
Get-OMAlertSubType
Get-OMAlertType
Get-OMRecommendation
Get-OMResource
Get-OMStat
Get-OMStatKey
Get-OMUser
Set-OMAlert
Host Info:
Get-VMHostHardware
Get-VMHostPciDevice
Storage:
Get-VAIOFilter
Set-VAIOFilter
Get-VasaProvider
Get-VasaStorageArray
New-VasaProvider
Remove-VasaProvider
NFS 4.1:
Get-NfsUser
New-NfsUser
Remove-NfsUser
Set-NfsUser
vCloud Air/On-Demand:
Connect-PIComputeInstance
Disconnect-PIComputeInstance
Get-OrgVdcNetwork
Get-PIComputeInstance
Get-PIDatacenter

52. What Now?:
7 Question PowerCLI Survey: http://bit.ly/powerclisurvey
Download PowerCLI 6.0 R1 Now!: http://bit.ly/PowerCLI6r1
PowerActions
Onyx for Web Client
Download PowerCLI reference poster (PDF):
http://bit.ly/PowerCLIPosterv2

53. Learn More:
@PowerCLI
@vBrianGraf
Blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vmwarepowercli
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/PowerCLI-Users-
162324/about
VMware Communities:
https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/automationtools/
powercli

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57. Day to Day Automation of VMware Products
to Increase Productivity and Efficiency
Brian Graf, VMware, Inc
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