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

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784393724

Length 274 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

PowerCLI

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Philip Brandon Sellers

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

PowerCLI Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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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

Connecting to a vCloud environment

Before you can do any work in a vCloud environment, you need to connect to it. Connecting to vCloud Director or to a vCloud Hybrid Service Provider looks very similar to connecting to vCenter or an ESXi host.

Getting ready

The cmdlet to connect to vCloud is essentially the same as the Connect-VIServer cmdlet used to connect to vCenter or an individual ESXi host. Instead of the VI acronym, the cmdlets for vCloud Director use CI. So, the cmdlet to connect to vCloud is Connect-CIServer.

How to do it…

In order to connect to a vCloud environment, perform the following steps:

The first step is to connect using the Connect-CIServer cmdlet. Try using it just like a Connect-VIServer cmdlet:
```
Connect-CiServer vcloud.lab.local
```
If the certificate used to install vCloud Director is not trusted, you will be prompted with a message about an invalid certificate, as shown in the following screenshot:
You can choose to accept the certificate either one time or permanently. However...