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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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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

Configuring custom storage and path selection policies


One of the more common uses for ESXCLI in PowerCLI is the configuration of Storage Array Type Plug-in (SATP) and path selection policy (PSP) settings. These configurations are particularly important from array to array. While ESXi ships with many default configurations, storage array vendors often have specific settings and claim rules that might need to be configured on each host. These settings can easily be set with ESXCLI, and since it works on the command line, it can work in PowerCLI with the ESXCLI object.

Getting ready

To begin this recipe, you will need a PowerCLI window and a connection to a vCenter Server. If we continue from the previous recipe, you can leverage the ESXCLI object and variable, and if not, you can obtain a new object in Step 1 of this recipe.

How to do it…

In order to configure custom storage and the path selection policies, perform the following steps:

  1. The first step is to obtain your ESXCLI object. To do this...

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