Appendix A. Learning PowerGUI Basics

PowerGUI is a cool tool used to speed up the PowerShell implementation. You can use it to manage not only your vSphere infrastructure, but also your Windows-based environment from a single centralized console. You can use the PowerGUI script editor to write your PowerShell scripts. You can download it from http://software.dell.com/products/powergui-freeware/.

PowerGUI is a friendly tool especially useful for people who don't know much about PowerShell scripting. The following screenshot shows the homepage:

Learning PowerGUI Basics

Download the PowerGUI from the previously mentioned link and double click on the downloaded setup file to ...

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