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Learning PowerCLI

You're reading from   Learning PowerCLI A comprehensive guide on PowerCLI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786468017
Length 562 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to PowerCLI FREE CHAPTER 2. Learning Basic PowerCLI Concepts 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 8. Managing High Availability and Clustering 9. Managing vCenter Server 10. Patching ESXi Hosts and Upgrading Virtual Machines 11. Managing VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Air 12. Using Site Recovery Manager 13. Using vRealize Operations Manager 14. Using REST API to manage NSX and vRealize Automation 15. Reporting with PowerCLI

Retrieving vRA business groups

A business group in vRA is a subdivision of the users in a tenant. A business group is also named a subtenant in the vRealize Automation API. Each business group must have a reservation of servers, storage, and networks.

To retrieve the vRA business groups of the vsphere.local tenant, we connect to the vRA server using the [email protected] account that has the tenant administrator role and the IaaS administrator role in the vsphere.local tenant. The following code is similar to the code in the preceding section, Connecting to vRA servers . First, we will save the server name, username, password, and tenant name in variables, using the following commands:

PowerCLI C:\> $vRAServer = 'vra-01a.corp.local'
PowerCLI C:\> $Username = '[email protected]'
PowerCLI C:\> $Password = 'VMware1!'
PowerCLI C:\> $Tenant = 'vsphere.local'

We will create a JSON here-string to store the username, password, and tenant...

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