Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7

Chapter 14Automating VMware vSphere

The role of a VMware vSphere administrator has become more demanding as the features and capabilities of the platform are enhanced and integrated with adjacent solutions. VMware continues to ensure that these features are quickly consumable for an administrator, as you have seen throughout this book. However, new features often lead to additional responsibilities, more opportunities for errors or inconsistencies, and lower tolerances for outages of critical and complex workloads.

As a vSphere administrator, you will often need to perform repetitive tasks with increasingly more touch points. Examples include creating multiple virtual machines (VMs) from a template, changing the network configuration on a group ...