Scenario 23

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Scenario 23

Scenario:

You are the administrator of a large vSphere environment for which management automation is extremely important. You use PowerCLI to create detailed reports containing information that is not readily available in the vSphere Client. You want to begin by using PowerCLI to display information on all ESXi hosts and VMs.

Requirements:

Use PowerCLI to perform each of the following tasks:

Connect to vCenter Server.
List all the ESXi hosts that are managed by the vCenter Server.
List all the VMs that are managed by the vCenter Server.

Environment Information:

vCenter Server = vcenter-01.lab.local

Objective: 8.1 Execute VMware Cmdlets and Customize Scripts Using PowerCLI

Guide Reference(s):

Chapter 1 – PowerCLI - Usage

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Solution

To accomplish this task, the administrator can perform the following steps:

Use this command to connect to the vCenter Server:

Connect-VIServer vcenter-01.lab.local

When prompted, provide user credentials to connect to vCenter Server. Then use this command to retrieve and display a list of all ESXi hosts:

Get-VMHost

When prompted, provide user credentials to connect to vCenter Server. Then use this command to retrieve and display a list of all ESXi hosts:

Get-VM