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Mastering VMware vSphere® 5
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Mastering VMware vSphere® 5

by Scott Lowe
October 2011
Beginner
768 pages
25h 44m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 14

Automating VMware vSphere

As a VMware vSphere administrator, you'll need to perform lots of repetitive tasks. Examples include creating five new VMs from a template, changing the network configuration on 18 VMs, or creating a new port group on seven different ESXi hosts. All these examples are tasks where automation would help you complete the task more quickly, provide greater consistency, save you time, and ultimately save your organization money. Clearly, automation is an area that can benefit every vSphere administrator and every organization that adopts vSphere in their environment.

In this chapter, you will learn to

  • Identify some of the tools available for automating vSphere
  • Configure vCenter Orchestrator
  • Use a vCenter Orchestrator ...
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