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PowerCLI Cookbook

You're reading from   PowerCLI Cookbook Over 75 step-by-step recipes to put PowerCLI into action for efficient administration of your virtual environment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393724
Length 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Philip Brandon Sellers Philip Brandon Sellers
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

PowerCLI Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Configuring the Basic Settings of an ESXi Host with PowerCLI FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring vCenter and Computing Clusters 3. Managing Virtual Machines 4. Working with Datastores and Datastore Clusters 5. Creating and Managing Snapshots 6. Managing Resource Pools, Reservations, and Limits for Virtual Machines 7. Creating Custom Reports and Notifications for vSphere 8. Performing ESXCLI and in-guest Commands from PowerCLI 9. Managing DRS and Affinity Groups using PowerCLI 10. Working with vCloud Director from PowerCLI Setting up and Configuring vCloud Director Index

Reporting shares, reservations, and limits of resource pools and virtual machines


Now that you have the shares fully automated and scheduled, you might need to report the values and ensure that everything is good. Since your shares are defined by the number of VMs and the custom attribute value, you can easily create a table-formatted report that includes the set values for memory and CPU shares and compare that against a computed value. This will help you to verify that your function is working in the future. For this recipe, you will write an additional function to add into your module.

Getting ready

This recipe will continue inside the .psm1 file that you created in the previous recipe. You will need this file, a text editor, a PowerCLI window, and an active connection to vCenter.

How to do it…

In order to report shares, reservations, and limits of resource pools and virtual machines, perform the following steps:

  1. The first step is to get a basic function established. Refer to the Automating...

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