Preface

If you are a system administrator who manages a considerable-sized environment, then I do not need to elaborate on the importance of scripting to you. Scripting was and always will be one of the most important arsenals in a system administrator's weaponry. With the term scripting, till very recently typically bash or other such shell scripts used to come to mind and more advanced ones, such as Perl, PHP, or Ruby. I love this scripting language for the sheer beauty and power that it presents. If you are coming from a *NIX environment, PowerShell will completely change your perception about scripting. If you are managing a vSphere environment, then besides vRealize Orchestrator, PowerCLI is the most powerful tool available to help you automate ...

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