Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The script uses the Get-Cluster cmdlet to retrieve all the clusters."

A block of code is set as follows:

$HostName = '192.168.0.133' 
$iSCSITarget = '192.168.0.157' 
$VirtualSwitchName = 'vSwitch2' 
$NicName = 'vmnic3' 
$PortGroupName = 'iSCSI Port group 1' 
$ChapType = 'Preferred' 
$ChapUser = 'Cluster01User' 
$ChapPassword = ' Cluster01Pwd' 
$DatastoreName = 'Cluster01_iSCSI01' 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

PowerCLI C:\> New-VM -Name VM1 -ResourcePool (Get-Cluster
  -Name Cluster01) 

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "If your cluster is incorrectly configured, the vSphere Web Client will show you the issues in the  Summary  tab."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.