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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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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

Applying recommendations for partially automated DRS clusters


PowerCLI offers you the ability to set a cluster into autopilot, but that is not a requirement to receive the benefits for DRS. DRS clusters can also be set into a partially automated mode that lets DRS make recommendations and allows the administrator to apply those recommendations. PowerCLI offers native cmdlets to retrieve a list of recommendations and allows them to be applied.

Get-DRSRecommendations and Apply-DRSRecommendation allow you to retrieve the current recommendations and then apply them. In vSphere 6, the Apply-DRSRecommendation cmdlet changes to Invoke-DRSRecommendation. The functionality is the same, but the verb changes. Like any other native cmdlet, you can take the results and scope the list of recommendations to apply. One important thing to note here is that the Get-DRSRecommendation and the Apply-DRSRecommendation cmdlets only apply to compute clusters and not to storage clusters.

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