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

• Virtu-Al: Lesson 1 Time Source

• Virtu-Al: Lesson 2 Service and Firewall Configuration

• Virtu-Al: Lesson 3 Networking

• Virtu-Al: Lesson 4 Portgroups

• VMware's PowerCLI 5.5 R2 online cmdlet reference

• Managing VMware with PowerShell -- Frequently Asked Questions

• PowerCLI Poster with all the available cmdlets
• PowerCLI 5.1 Poster

• Workshop and demo scripts by Carter Shanklin

• VMworld 2010 PowerCLI lab manual

• VirtualizePlanet PowerCLI lessons by Ricky El-Qasem

• Getting Started with vSphere PowerCLI (Petri.co.il)

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: Oneliners

PowerCLI scripts

integration

• Introduction to scripting vi using perl or powershell

• Manage VMware Server with PowerShell

• Introduction to the vSphere SDK in Java and C#

• How to run PowerCLI scripts from vCenter alarms

• PowerCLI: WebPowerCLI, run scripts from your browser

not categorized

• Deploy and Redeploy vm's (from templates) from a .csv

• Resourcepool Reservation Script

• Add/Remove active directory user accounts who belong to a particular security group on all ESX hosts

• Quick migration

• Out-Dataset Cmdlet

VM Configuration

• Remove connected iso's

• Restart VMware Tools on all Windows VM's

• PowerCLI: Update VMwaretools without a reboot

• PowerCLI: Add configuration details to VMX

• PowerCLI: Scripted edit of a VMX file

• PowerCLI: Get Virtual Machine disk usage

• PowerCLI: Set CPU Identification Mask

• PowerCLI: Force a VM to enter BIOS setup on next boot

• PowerCLI: Set VM Snapshot location

• PowerCLI: Resolving improper memory limits on your virtual machines

• PowerCLI: Dump virtual machine info as XML

• PowerCLI: Match VM and Windows hard disks

• PowerCLI: Determine vSwitch vmnic for your VM

• PowerCLI: Get VM Swap Information

• PowerCLI: HL Tools – Part 1 – Clone a VM without vCenter

• PowerCLI: HL Tools – Part 2 – Create a nested hypervisor

• PowerCLI: Change Virtual Machines Guest OS Names

• PowerCLI: Create multiple VMs

Host Management

• PowerCLI: Report every VM added to vCenter in the last 30 days

• PowerCLI: Get Virtual Machine total size

• PowerCLI: Export and import customization profiles

• PowerCLI: Export Task and eventlogs to file using TaskHistoryCollector

• PowerCLI: Snap reminder

• PowerCLI: Daily Report

• PowerCLI: Get number of vCPU's used in cluster

• PowerCLI: Factory reset of ESXi

• PowerCLI: Cluster Load

• PowerCLI: Get VMHost Support Bundles

• PowerCLI: Update host from ESXi 5.1 to 5.1 update 1

• PowerCLI: VM stats and Google Charts

Integration with ESXi shell

• PowerCLI: Using plink to modify ESXi host configuration files via SSH

• PowerCLI: enable SSH and configure ESXi Firewall

• PowerCLI: Update ESXi Root Password with Password Generator

Storage

• PowerCLI: HBA Load Balancer

• PowerCLI: Upgrading your VMFS datastores

• PowerCLI: Upgrade from VMFS3 to VMFS5 with no downtime

• PowerCLI: Checking VMFS Version and Block Sizes

• PowerCLI: Set the Path Selection Policy for every device path of every host in your vSphere 5.0/5.1 cluster

Networking

• PowerCLI: Verify and change the existing Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Filter configuration

dvSwitch

• PowerCLI: dvPortgroup ports report
• PowerCLI: Disable Netflow for a VDPortgroup or a number of VDPortGroups

vCloud

• PowerCLI: Show-vCloudStatsHtml.ps1
• PowerCLI: Install Software in Isolated Virtual Machines

libraries

• PowerCLI: Scriptkit