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Mastering PowerCLI

You're reading from   Mastering PowerCLI Master PowerCLI to automate all aspects of VMware environments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785286858
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sajal Debnath Sajal Debnath
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Mastering PowerCLI
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. PowerShell and PowerCLI Refresher FREE CHAPTER 2. Reusable Advanced Functions and Scripts 3. Deploying vSphere Hosts 4. Managing Networks 5. Managing Storage 6. Managing Clusters and Other Constructs 7. Managing Virtual Machines 8. Managing vSphere Security, SRM, vCloud Air, and vROps 9. Managing the vSphere API 10. Using REST APIs 11. Creating Windows GUI 12. Best Practices and Sample Scripts Index

Configuring Netflow


To configure Netflow, we need to access APIs. To do this, we will access the ReconfigureDVPortgroup_Task method. Alan Renouf has a very good blog and description for this (http://www.virtu-al.net/2013/07/23/disabling-netflow-with-powercli/):

PS C:\> (Get-VDPortgroup -Name TestPortGroup).Extensiondata.Config.defaultPortConfig.ipfixEnabled.Value
False

Next, we will change the value. As seen in the following output, it takes a VMware.Vim.DVPortgroupConfigSpec type specification:

PS C:\> (Get-VDPortgroup -Name "TestPortGroup") Extensiondata.ReconfigureDVPortgroup_Task

OverloadDefinitions                                                                                   
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VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference ReconfigureDVPortgroup_Task(VMware.Vim.DVPortgroupConfigSpec spec)

To do this, we will first create a specification and then pass the value to the method in order to...

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