Hal Rottenberg hal@halr9000.

com

 Hal

Rottenberg hal@halr9000.com

Over 12 years in the IT industry; everything

from helpdesk, to sysadmin, to technical

consultant
Author, Managing VMware Infrastructure with
PowerShell: TFM from Sapien Press (due out
as soon as he can possibly get it done)
Community Director, PowerShellCommunity.org
Co-Host, PowerScripting Podcast
(powerscripting.net)
Blog Author, TechProsaic (halr9000.com)

 Introduction
Feature overview
Demo 1: new providers
New Cmdlets
Demo 2: wiki deploy
Demo 3: Creating a VM
Demo 4: Access VI SDK

 Programming

API

Web service (WSDL)

Samples included for Java, C, C#
Low level

Scripting

API

Perl and COM interfaces available

Wrapper for web services

You still must learn

the VI SDK
Higher level than
SDK, but not by
much
Perl interface not
familiar to Windows
admins
COM interface was
not very popular,
hard to find
examples

PowerShell snap-in
Client-side automation objects
correspond to server-side managed
objects and managed entities
Not just a web service wrapper
Favors action-oriented cmdlets over object
methods
Goal: 80% of tasks will not require SDK
Ability to access the SDK for more
complex tasks

 Fully

supported:

Virtual Center 2.x

ESX Server 3.x (including 3i)

Unofficially

supported:

VMware Server 2.0 beta

Works

with PowerShell v1 or v2 CTP

 Includes
Count Name
----- ---1 Add
1 Connect
1 Disconnect
1 Dismount
37 Get
Datacenter,...
1 Mount
7 Move
Folde...
19 New
CustomField...
20 Remove
Cu...
2 Restart
27 Set
CustomField...
1 Shutdown
2 Start
3 Stop
2 Suspend
1 Test

over 120 cmdlets

Group
----{Add-VMHost}
{Connect-VIServer}
{Disconnect-VIServer}
{Dismount-Tools}
{Get-CDDrive, Get-Cluster, Get{Mount-Tools}
{Move-Cluster, Move-Datacenter, Move{New-CDDrive, New-Cluster, New{Remove-CDDrive, Remove-Cluster, Remove{Restart-VMGuest, Restart-VMHostService}
{Set-CDDrive, Set-Cluster, Set{Shutdown-VMGuest}
{Start-VM, Start-VMHostService}
{Stop-Task, Stop-VM, Stop-VMHostService}
{Suspend-VM, Suspend-VMGuest}
{Test-VMHostSNMP}

 Also includes two PSProviders

Remote filesystem (datastore) access via

VimDatastore provider
Hierarchical management of Folders, Datacenters,
VMHosts, VMs using VimInventory provider

Name
---VimDatastore
VimInventory

Capabilities
-----------Filter, ShouldProcess
Filter

Drives
-----{DS}
{VI}

 VimInventory
VimDatastore
New-PSDrive
-Root '/'
New-PSDrive
-Root '/'

EXPERIMENTA
L!

-Name VI -PSProvider VimInventory `

-location (Get-Folder -NoRecursion)
-Name DS -PSProvider VimDatastore `
-location (Get-Datastore $DatastoreName)

 Get-VM
Get-VMHost

PS > Get-VM
Name
PS
> Get-VMHost
---SDK-RHAS4U4
Name
SDK-W2003ENT
---fudgeapp01
192.168.0.51
fudgedb01
192.168.0.55
vcenter.halr9000.com
fudgedb02
SDK-XPSP2

Get-CDDrive
Get-Cluster

PowerState Num CPUs

---------- -------PoweredOffState
1
PoweredOff----1
PoweredOffConnected
1
PoweredOffConnected
1
PoweredOn 2
PoweredOff 1
PoweredOff 1

Memory (MB)
----------512
Id
256
-256
HostSys...
512
HostSys...
1500
1024
256

PS > Get-VM vcenter.halr9000.com | Get-CDDrive

ISOPath
HostDevice
RemoteDevice
ConnectionState
ID
Name

:
:
:
:
:
:

PS > Get-Cluster "test cluster" | fl

HAEnabled
: False
VMware.VimAutomation.Client20.ConnectInfoImpl
HAAdmissionControlEnabled : False
VirtualMachine-vm-158/3000
HAFailoverLevel
: 1
CD/DVD Drive 1
DRSEnabled
: False
DRSMode
: FullyAutomated
CustomFields
: {}
ID
: ClusterComputeResource-domain-c44
Name
: Test Cluster

 New-Datacenter
New-Cluster
Add-VMHost
New-VM

 Create

folders wiki-style

 Cmdlets
New-VM

used:

 Remove-Snapshot
Move-VM
Set-NetworkAdapter
Restart-VMGuest

 Cmdlets

used:

New-Snapshot

 get-vm

MYSERVER | move-vm -dest

(get-vmhost ESX2)
get-cluster TEST | get-vm | move-vm
dest (get-cluster PRODUCTION)

 Get-VIEvent
Get-Task
Get-Log
Get-Stat

 Cmdlets

used:

Get-VIEvent

 When

the simplified interface

doesnt cut ityou can always work
with the SDK
Cmdlets used
Get-View

ISCSI

Configuration

VI Toolkit: http://vmware.com/go/powershell
VI Toolkit blog:
http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/
VI Toolkit Community:
http://communities.vmware.com/community/d
eveloper/windows_toolkit
PowerShellCommunity.org:
http://powershellcommunity.org
PowerScripting Podcast:
http://powerscripting.net
Managing VI with PowerShell: TFM:
http://sapienpress.com/vmware.asp
Hals Blog: http://halr9000.com