Recently, the new book Learning PowerCLI – Second Edition was published by Packt Publishing. Learning PowerCLI – Second Edition contains 517 pages of PowerCLI goodness. The book starts with downloading and installing PowerCLI. It continues with basic PowerCLI concepts, and working with PowerShell objects. Managing vSphere host, virtual machines, virtual networks, storage, high availability, clusters, and vCenter Server are the following topics. After patching ESXi hosts and upgrading virtual machines using vSphere Update Manager, managing VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Air, using Site Recovery Manager, vRealize Operations Manager, and REST API to manage NSX and vRealize Automation, the book finishes with a chapter about reporting.
If you are new to PowerCLI or have some PowerCLI experience and want to improve your PowerCLI skills, Learning PowerCLI – Second Edition will teach you to use PowerCLI to automate your work!
What’s New
Compared to the first edition, the following new topics are added in Learning PowerCLI – Second Edition:
- Importing OVF or OVA packages
- Using Tags
- Using VMware vSAN
- Using vSphere storage policy-based management
- Configuring enhanced vMotion compatibility (EVC) mode
- Patching ESXi hosts and upgrading virtual machines
- Managing VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Air
- Using Site Recovery Manager
- Using vRealize Operations Manager
- Using REST API to manage NSX and vRealize Automation
Learning PowerCLI – Second Edition is available exclusively from Packt Publishing: https://www.packtpub.com/virtualization-and-cloud/learning-powercli-second-edition
About the Author
Learning PowerCLI – Second Edition is written by Robert van den Nieuwendijk. Robert is a freelance system engineer living and working in the Netherlands. He is a VMware vExpert since 2012 and a moderator of the VMware VMTN Communities. Robert has a blog at http://rvdnieuwendijk.com. You can follow Robert on Twitter as @rvdnieuwendijk.
