Scenario 33

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Scenario 33

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Scenario:

You recently upgraded a vSphere environment to vSphere 5.5 and want to use the Inventory Provider feature in PowerCLI.

Requirements:

Use the Inventory Provider feature in PowerCLI to map a drive letter V to root object in the vCenter inventory.
Use cd and ls commands to list the VMs (and potentially other objects) on an ESXi host.

Environment Information:

vCenter Server name: vcenter-01.lab.local
Datacenter Name: Training
ESXi Host Name: host-01.vclass.local

VDCA510 Objective: N/A
VDCA550 Objective: 7.1 – Execute VMware Cmdlets and Customize Scripts Using PowerCLI

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Solution

Use PowerCLI to run these commands:

Connect-VIServer -Server ‘vcenter-01’ -user Administrator -password vmware
$root = Get-Folder -Norecursion
New-PSDrive -Location $root -Name V -PSprovider VimInventory -Root ‘\’
cd V:
cd ‘\Training\host\New Cluster\host-01.vclass.local’
ls