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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

Managing vRA tenants

A tenant is an organizational unit in vRA that can be a company or a business unit in an enterprise. After deploying vRA, you will only have a default tenant named vsphere.local. To create a new tenant, you have to connect to vRA using the [email protected] account that has the system administrator role in the vsphere.local tenant. In the preceding section, Connecting to vRA servers , we have already retrieved a bearer token for the [email protected] account. In the following section, Creating vRA tenants , we will create a new tenant named Research.

Creating vRA tenants

To create a new tenant, we save the tenant name in the variable $Tenant, as follows:

PowerCLI C:\> $Tenant = 'research'

We will save the URI specifying the identity service and the name of the new tenant in the variable $Uri, using the following command:

PowerCLI C:\> $Uri = "https://$vRAServer/identity/api/tenants/$Tenant"

Next, we create a JSON here-string...

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