PowerCLI
PowerCLI is the "new' name for what used to be called the Virtual Infrastructure Toolkit, or VI Toolkit in short. In order to manage your virtual infrastructure on windows using scripts you will most likely want to use the VI Toolkit for windows and PowerShell
Learning VI-Toolkit Powershell
Powershell CMDLET list (thank you Alan Renouf for the idea and initial work)Doesn't contain much atm, still a great idea, but crossed out as you as reader probably should not spend time on clicking through it.
PowerCLI videos
- Patching ESX with PowerCLI 4.0 U1
- Invoke-VM with PowerCLI 4.0 U1
- #vBrownBag Follow-Up – PowerCLI 201 w/ Jake Robinson
PowerCLI Oneliners
Hugo Peeters started with posting so called oneliners to indicate how powerful the VI-Toolkit on Powershell is. After a while this got picked up by others as sort of a sport to see if you can do it in one line. Below is a collection of links with oneliners from great powershell scripters. These pages now contains links to oneliners from Hugo Peeters, Alan Renouf, get-admin.com and Arne Fokkema
- PowerCLI Oneliners: Statistics
- PowerCLI Oneliners: Events
- PowerCLI Oneliners: Host Configuration
- PowerCLI Oneliners: VM Configuration
- PowerCLI Oneliners: Storage
- ESX PowerCLI One-Liners (vWiki)
PowerCLI scripts
not categorized
- Add/Remove active directory user accounts who belong to a particular security group on all ESX hosts
VM Configuration
Host Management
Storage
Networking
dvSwitch
- PowerCLI: dvPortgroup ports report
- PowerCLI: Disable Netflow for a VDPortgroup or a number of VDPortGroups
