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Mastering PowerCLI

You're reading from   Mastering PowerCLI Master PowerCLI to automate all aspects of VMware environments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785286858
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sajal Debnath Sajal Debnath
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Preface 1. PowerShell and PowerCLI Refresher 2. Reusable Advanced Functions and Scripts FREE CHAPTER 3. Deploying vSphere Hosts 4. Managing Networks 5. Managing Storage 6. Managing Clusters and Other Constructs 7. Managing Virtual Machines 8. Managing vSphere Security, SRM, vCloud Air, and vROps 9. Managing the vSphere API 10. Using REST APIs 11. Creating Windows GUI 12. Best Practices and Sample Scripts Index

Configuring Fault Tolerance


In this section, we will discuss how we can use vSphere API's to configure FT through PowerCLI. For this, let's explore the methods and properties that we need to access.

If we access the APIs, we can see that there are two methods, CreateSecondaryVMEx_Task and CreateSecondaryVM_Task, which we can use to configure Fault Tolerance (FT). If we check, we can see that CreateSecondaryVM_Task is the deprecated method. So for this example, we will use the CreateSecondaryVMEx_Task method.

If we check the CreateSecondaryVMEX_Task method, we can see that it takes two different parameters, host and spec. The host parameter is for specifying a host system where the secondary VM should be placed, and spec is a Data Object of type FaultToleranceVMConfigSpec and is used for specifying the values for fault tolerance VM configuration. If we check, we can see that it takes two parameters: disks of type FaultToleranceDiskSpec and vmConfig of type ManagedObjectReference to a datastore...

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