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PowerCLI Cookbook

You're reading from   PowerCLI Cookbook Over 75 step-by-step recipes to put PowerCLI into action for efficient administration of your virtual environment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393724
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Philip Brandon Sellers Philip Brandon Sellers
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Configuring the Basic Settings of an ESXi Host with PowerCLI 2. Configuring vCenter and Computing Clusters FREE CHAPTER 3. Managing Virtual Machines 4. Working with Datastores and Datastore Clusters 5. Creating and Managing Snapshots 6. Managing Resource Pools, Reservations, and Limits for Virtual Machines 7. Creating Custom Reports and Notifications for vSphere 8. Performing ESXCLI and in-guest Commands from PowerCLI 9. Managing DRS and Affinity Groups using PowerCLI 10. Working with vCloud Director from PowerCLI A. Setting up and Configuring vCloud Director Index

Importing a vApp template into vCloud


The real utility of vCloud environments comes from the service catalogs and automated deployment of services. This orchestration makes it simpler for end users to go to a self-service portal and order a new instance of a service that is created and deployed on the backend infrastructure automatically.

The end user doesn't need to worry about which physical host to install the application, the database tier and the application tier, the network connections and IP pool of the application, and certainly not which types of storage should be utilized. All of these decisions should be made for the user based on the policy and definition of the vApp in vCloud.

The vApp is the building block of services in vCloud Director as well as vSphere. vApps package together the multiple pieces that create a full service or application. Many times, applications require multiple systems in order to operate, and the vApp concept helps them package together those disparate...

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