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Learning PowerCLI for VMware VSphere

You're reading from   Learning PowerCLI for VMware VSphere Automate your Vmware vSphere environment by learning how to install and use PowerCLI. This book takes a practical tutorial approach that will have you automating your daily routine tasks in no time.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782170167
Length 374 pages
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Learning PowerCLI
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Introduction to PowerCLI 2. Learning Basic PowerCLI Concepts FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Objects in PowerShell 4. Managing vSphere Hosts with PowerCLI 5. Managing Virtual Machines with PowerCLI 6. Managing Virtual Networks with PowerCLI 7. Managing Storage with PowerCLI 8. Managing High Availability and Clustering with PowerCLI 9. Managing vCenter with PowerCLI 10. Reporting with PowerCLI Index

Working with host profiles


A host profile is a collection of all of the configuration settings for an ESXi host, such as storage and networking configurations and security settings. You can create a host profile from a reference host or import an existing host profile. After attaching a host profile to a host, the host can be checked for compliance with the host profile. If the host is compliant, you know the settings of the host are the same as the settings of the host profile. If the host is not compliant, the host profile can be applied to the host to make the host compliant.

The next screenshot of the vSphere Web Client shows you some of the settings that you can configure in a host profile:

Common Information Model (CIM) Indication Subscriptions are subscriptions to the notifications for hardware-related events, such as problems with the cooling, battery, processor, memory, or power of an ESXi server.

Creating a host profile

To get started, you first need to configure a reference host....

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