Beginners Guide to Managing VMware using PowerShell

Title: Beginners Guide to Managing VMware using PowerShell

Author(s): Xtravirt (Peter Grant)

Target Audience: Technical - Intermediate

Current Revision: 1.0 November 2009

First Published: 4 November 2009

Products: VMware, Microsoft PowerShell

UID: XD10133

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Title:

Beginners Guide to Managing VMware using PowerShell

Author(s):

Xtravirt (Peter Grant)

Target Audience:

Technical - Intermediate

First Published:

4 November 2009

Products:

VMware, Microsoft PowerShell

UID:

XD10133

This document is a beginner’s guide to configuring and using PowerShell to perform administration tasks within a VMware Infrastructure. This assumes little or no experience with PowerShell and will go through the steps of downloading, configuring and using it to perform simple tasks.

Release the power...go forth and manage VMware using Microsoft's PowerShell

Overview

It aims to serve as a basic introduction and to show the steps required to get started with VMware & Powershell.

Key Concepts:

PowerShell Introduction
Install Steps and First Commands
Creating PowerShell Scripts
Running PowerShell Scripts from DOS Command Prompts or Task Scheduler

It aims to serve as a basic introduction and to show the steps required to get started with VMware & Powershell