Day to Day Automation of VMware Productsto Increase Productivity and Efficiency

Brian Graf, VMware, Inc

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• This presentation may contain product features that are currently under development.

• This overview of new technology represents no commitment from VMware to deliver these features in any generally available product.

• Features are subject to change, and must not be included in contracts, purchase orders, or sales agreements of any kind.

• Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.

• Pricing and packaging for any new technologies or features discussed or presented have not been determined.

Disclaimer

Who Am I?

• Brian Graf– Senior Technical Marketing Manager – Vmware– PowerCLI Automation, ESXi Lifecycle, ROBO

• vExpert, VCAP5-DCA/DCD• VMware Blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/• Personal Blog: http://www.vtagion.com• Twitter: @vBrianGraf

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Agenda

1Getting Started• Background• Who is PowerCLI for? No, but really…

2PowerCLI Use Cases• What do people use PowerCLI for?• Why should YOU use PowerCLI?• Examples and demos of PowerCLI in action.

3 Performance• What’s coming in the next release?

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INF4793Many of us have become very comfortable in performing tasks manually in the desktop client or the vSphere Web Client, but doing things manually will always take more time and be more prone to errors, as opposed to automating them. Come learn how easy our automation solution is and how you can start automating actions, reports, and processes in your virtual environment today! We will discuss how to perform bulk actions against objects in the environment, create fast and valuable reports, and how to move away from all the manual and redundant tasks. If you do something more than once, you should automate it. If you are a PowerCLI beginner or haven’t even tried PowerCLI this session is for you. Stop wasting your time and learn how to reclaim your day, the PowerCLI way.

INF4793Many of us have become very comfortable in performing tasks manually in the desktop client or the vSphere Web Client, but doing things manually will always take more time and be more prone to errors, as opposed to automating them. Come learn how easy our automation solution is and how you can start automating actions, reports, and processes in your virtual environment today! We will discuss how to perform bulk actions against objects in the environment, create fast and valuable reports, and how to move away from all the manual and redundant tasks. If you do something more than once, you should automate it. If you are a PowerCLI beginner or haven’t even tried PowerCLI this session is for you. Stop wasting your time and learn how to reclaim your day, the PowerCLI way.

Microsoft® PowerShell™ – Overview• Microsoft PowerShell is the foundation of PowerCLI

• The best shell today for Windows Environments– Easy to learn and understand– Built for system administrators, not for programmers– Object Orientated– Extended to the entire Datacenter

• Microsoft is serious about it– So is VMware

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PowerCLI – Overview• Command line tool that leverages Microsoft PowerShell

• The best shell for automating and managing your virtual environment– Follows PowerShell syntax and command verbs– Almost 500 cmdlets for working with vSphere environments– 10+ Products and technologies, and more to come!– PowerCLI 6.0 is backwards compatible to vSphere 5.0– No license required– Improved through community feedback

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Who is Powercli Meant For?

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Basic Admins Advanced Admins Developers Management

Day-to-day Administration

Work with vSphere API

Create .NET Applications Reporting

Mass Configuration Changes

Create Advanced Functions DevOps Auditing

Health reports Parallel Jobs GUI / App Overlays Forecasting

PowerCLI Use Cases

What Do People Use Powercli For?

Save time through automation

Simplify automated tasks and user workflows

Diagnose, explore and resolve issues

Make large scale changes in a consistent and auditable way

Produce customized reporting

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Produce Customized Reporting– Complex queries for the entire SDDC

• Combination of data from VMware & 3rd party software and hardware

– Output usage information for license purposes– Create audit reports for best practices– Export configuration information– Security Auditing (See Hardening Guide)

Get-VM | Select-Object Name, NumCPU, MemoryMB, PowerState, Host | Export-CSV Simple_Inventory.csv -NoTypeInformation

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Reporting – What Should I Report?• General Details

– # of Hosts– # of VMs– # of Templates– # of Clusters– # of Datastores– # of Active VMs– # of Inactive VMs– # of DRS Migrations for the last days

• VM Details– VMs created over the last x days– VMs removed over the last x days– VMs with no Tools installed– VMs with CD-Roms connected– VMs with Floppy Drives Connected– VMs with CPU ready over x%– VMs with over x amount of vCPUs

• Host Details– Hosts in Maintenance Mode– Hosts in disconnected state– NTP Server check for a given NTP

Name– NTP Service check– Host active Alerts– ESXi hosts without Lockdown

enabled– ESXi hosts with unsupported mode

enabled

• And much much more…

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Save Time Through Automation

We enable our customers to:– Remove the “Human Error Aspect” by enabling them to

produce repeatable tested scripts– Manage VMware and 3rd Party software and hardware– Provide automation tasks that are not native to the product– Quickly produce Prototype tools

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Make Large Scale Changes in a Consistent and Auditable Way

• We enable our customers to configure multiple VMware SDDC Environments from the same interface

• Easily define changes and execute them in large scale environments

• Deploy new VMware products and features

Customers no longer manage 1 or 10 Servers, its often 100s or 1000s

vCloud Air

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PowerCLI Basics – Connect to vCenterPowerCLI Command:

Connect-VIServer –Server 10.144.99.9 –User administrator@vSphere.local

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PowerCLI Command: New-VICredentialStoreItem –Host 10.144.99.9 `–user administrator@vsphere.local –password vmware1!

Get-VICredentialStoreItem

PowerCLI Basics – Store vCenter Credentials

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PowerCLI Basics

Get-VMPowerCLI Command:

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PowerCLI Basics

Get-VM -Name “MGMT*"PowerCLI Command:

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PowerCLI Basics

(Get-VM).CountPowerCLI Command:

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PowerCLI Basics – Datastores

Get-DatastorePowerCLI Command:

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PowerCLI Basics - Datastores

Get-Datastore –name GreenPowerCLI Command:

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PowerCLI Basics - Datastores

$ds = Get-Datastore –name GreenPowerCLI Command:

Get-VM -Datastore $ds | Start-VM

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PowerCLI Basics – Finding CommandsPowerCLI Command:

Get-Command *VM*

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PowerCLI Basics – Getting HelpPowerCLI Command:

Get-Help New-VM -Examples

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Taking Action! – Modifying Bulk Objects

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Get-VMHost | Add-VMHostNtpServer 198.60.73.8

Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostFirewallException | where ` {$_.Name -eq "NTP client"} | `Set-VMHostFirewallException -Enabled:$true

Get-VMHost | Get-VmHostService | Where-Object ` {$_.key -eq "ntpd"} | Start-VMHostService

Get-VMhost | Get-VmHostService | Where-Object ` {$_.key -eq "ntpd"} | Set-VMHostService -policy "automatic"

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DEMO – Using what we’ve learned

Mass Portgroup Migration

$Cluster = "Staging" $CurrentPG = "vDS-Staging01" $NewPG = "vDS-Staging02"

Get-Cluster $Cluster | Get-VM | Get-NetworkAdapter | `Where {$_.NetworkName -eq $CurrentPG } | Set-NetworkAdapter `-NetworkName $NewPG -Confirm:$false

PowerCLI Command:

vSphere Distributed SwitchvDS-Staging01 vDS-Staging02

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Diagnose, Explore and Resolve Issues• We enable our customers to

• Resolve problems that can not be solved through the UI– Exploration -> Diagnoses -> Resolution

• Access Physical Console diagnostics (ESXCLI)

• Easily step through their troubleshooting process

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PowerCLI GUI’s?!

There is a Time and Place for Everything…• Larger actions are taking place

• More sophisticated queries / settings that would result in a very long function

• Interaction within the scripts

• The user is uncomfortable working in a CLI

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There is a Time and Place for Everything…

GUI Demo/Example

VMware ProductsAnd how PowerCLI can work with them

vCloud Air CmdletsExtensibility of High-Level Cmdlets to the cloud

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New in PowerCLI 6.0: Manage vCloudAir• Manage On-Premises and vCloud air in the same console

• 100+ Cmdlets to work with the Cloud

• “Tenant” PowerCLI removed

• Optional Install in PowerCLI

• Connect to multiple Clouds

• Get-CIView gives entire public API

• Store credentials for easy connection

• Report• Troubleshoot• Automate

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New in PowerCLI 6.0: Manage vCloud Air

Example PowerCLI code for some of the new vCloud Air cmdlets: Connect to default vCloud Air Instance

Connect-PIServer –Username me@mycompany.com –Password VMware1!

List all vCloud Air Datacenters you have access to

Get-PIDatacenter

Connect to all vCloud Air Datacenters you have access to

Get-PIDatacenter | Connect-PIDatacenter

Connect-PIServerDisconnect-PIServerGet-PIDatacenter

Cmdlets:“CI” Cmdlets now have a “PI” Alias and work with vCloud Air

Updated Cmdlets:

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Manage vCloud Air

Connect-PIServerDisconnect-PIServerGet-PIDatacenter

Cmdlets:“CI” Cmdlets now have a “PI” Alias and work with vCloud Air

Updated Cmdlets:

vCloud AIr

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Example PowerCLI code for some of the new vCloud Air cmdlets:

VSAN Cmdlets

New in PowerCLI 6.0: VSAN Cmdlets

Example PowerCLI code for some of the new VSAN cmdlets:Enable the VSAN VMKernel Network for a host

Get-VMHost Host1 | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VMKernel | Where {$_.PortGroupName -eq "Management Network" } | Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -VsanTrafficEnabled $true -Confirm:$false

Enable VSAN on Cluster1 and set to Automatic Disk Claim Mode

Get-Cluster Cluster1 | Set-Cluster -VsanEnabled:$true -VsanDiskClaimMode Automatic -Confirm:$false

List Hosts and Disk Groups

Get-VsanDiskGroup | Select VMHost, Name | FT -AutoSize

Get-VsanDiskNew-VsanDiskRemove-VsanDisk

Cmdlets:Get-VsanDiskGroupNew-VsanDiskGroupRemove-VsanDiskGroup

New-ClusterSet-Cluster

Updated Cmdlets:New-VMHostNetworkAdapterSet-VMHostNetworkAdapter

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New in PowerCLI 6.0: VSAN Cmdlets

Example PowerCLI code for enabling VSAN:

Get-VsanDiskNew-VsanDiskRemove-VsanDisk

Cmdlets:Get-VsanDiskGroupNew-VsanDiskGroupRemove-VsanDiskGroup

New-ClusterSet-Cluster

Updated Cmdlets:New-VMHostNetworkAdapterSet-VMHostNetworkAdapter

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vRealize Operations

vRealize Operations Cmdlets

Example PowerCLI code for some of the new vRealize Operations cmdlets:

New Cmdlets:

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Get-OMAlertGet-OMAlertDefinitionGet-OMAlertSubTypeGet-OMAlertType

Get-OMRecommendationGet-OMResourceGet-OMStatGet-OMStatKey

Get-OMUserSet-OMAlertConnect-OMServerDisconnect-OMServer

# Connect to vRealize Operations ManagerConnect-OMServer 10.134.14.26 -user administrator -password VMware1!

# Get current Alerts$alert = Get-OMAlert

# Get the Alert DefinitioinsGet-OMAlertDefinition -Name $alert

Site Recovery ManagerLow-Level API access

Site-Recovery Manager

Example PowerCLI code advanced SRM:

$SrmConnection = Connect-SrmServer 10.20.181.32

$SrmConnection | Get-Member $SrmApi = $SrmConnection.ExtensionData $SrmApi $SrmApi.Recovery.ListPlans()

Connect-SRMServerDisconnect-SRMServer

Cmdlets:

Leverages Site Recovery Manager API

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VMware NSXREST API calls from PowerCLI

Cmdlets for NSX?

Example PowerCLI code advanced NSX functions: $Credential = Get-CredentialConnect-NSXManager -NSXIP 10.144.99.22 -NSXPassword VMware1! -vCIP 10.144.99.15 -Credential $Credential

# --- Create REST Headers $Auth = "admin" + ':' + $NSXPassword $Encoded = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Auth) $EncodedPassword = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($Encoded) $Headers = @{"Authorization"="Basic $($EncodedPassword)";} # --- Send REST call and process results

$uri = "https://$NSXIP/api/2.0/services/vcconfig"$body = "<vcInfo><ipAddress>$vCIP</ipAddress>" $body += "<userName>$vcuser</userName><password>"$body += "$vcpass</password></vcInfo>"

There are none

Cmdlets:

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What’s New – Tech Preview

PowerCLI

Image Builder

vCloud Air

vCenter

ESX

Horizon Mirage

Horizon ViewSite

Recovery Manager

vCloud Director

vRealize Operations Manager

Update Manager

Storage

AutoDeploy

Hardware Information

On Demand

VASANFSVAIO

PowerCLI Tech Preview – What’s New?

PS> Whats-New

• New module and product support for vRealize Operations• Even more storage management and automation with:

• vSphere Storage API Cmdlets• NFS User Cmdlets• Updated vSphere API for IO Filtering Cmdlets

• Connect and manage On-Demand resources in vCloud Air• Updated vCloud Air Cmdlets for networking• Host hardware information• Update Manager now included in core installer for simpler and quicker deployment• Updated Support for SRM 6.1• Licensing Snapin converted to Module

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New Cmdlets: New Cmdlets: New Cmdlets:

Operations Manager:Get-OMAlertGet-OMAlertDefinitionGet-OMAlertSubTypeGet-OMAlertTypeGet-OMRecommendationGet-OMResourceGet-OMStatGet-OMStatKeyGet-OMUserSet-OMAlert

Host Info:Get-VMHostHardwareGet-VMHostPciDevice

Storage:Get-VAIOFilterSet-VAIOFilterGet-VasaProviderGet-VasaStorageArrayNew-VasaProviderRemove-VasaProvider

NFS 4.1:Get-NfsUserNew-NfsUserRemove-NfsUserSet-NfsUser

vCloud Air/On-Demand:Connect-PIComputeInstanceDisconnect-PIComputeInstanceGet-OrgVdcNetworkGet-PIComputeInstanceGet-PIDatacenter

What Now?:7 Question PowerCLI Survey: http://bit.ly/powerclisurvey

Download PowerCLI 6.0 R1 Now!: http://bit.ly/PowerCLI6r1

PowerActions

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Download PowerCLI reference poster (PDF): http://bit.ly/PowerCLIPosterv2

Learn More:@PowerCLI

@vBrianGraf

Blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI

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VMware Communities: https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/automationtools/powercli

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Day to Day Automation of VMware Productsto Increase Productivity and Efficiency

Brian Graf, VMware, Inc

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