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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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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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