March 2019
Beginner
756 pages
18h 45m
English
book
Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 - Second Edition
by Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak
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Automating with PowerCLI
The most common automation tool provided by vSphere is PowerCLI, a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell that provides cmdlets used for managing and automating vSphere and other VMware products.
Today, two versions of PowerShell and PowerCLI exist:
- PowerCLI 6.5: This version is based on the standard Windows PowerShell
- PowerCLI 10.0: This version is based on PowerShell Core, which is a multi-platform implementation of PowerShell
PowerShell Core can be installed on Windows, Linux, and macOS and it is the recommended version of PowerShell to use. Microsoft is going to deprecate old Windows PowerShell, so you should switch to PowerCLI 10 if you have not done so already. As mentioned, PowerShell ...
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