Unleash the Power of VMware with PowerCLI: A Beginner's Journey to Mastery

Are you fascinated by the idea of automation and scripting, but unsure of where to begin? Look no further! This guide is tailored specifically for those who are new to PowerCLI and want to learn the ropes.
In the coming minutes, we will take you from a complete novice to a PowerCLI pro. By the end of this journey, you will have the skills and knowledge to build your very own VMware vSphere Inventory Report.
All you need to start your journey is a Windows Server and a willingness to learn. So, let's dive in and start automating like a pro!
Chapters
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0:00 🎬 Intro
1:48 🎬 Installing VMware PowerCLI module
3:46 🎬 Learning the basics
9:16 🎬 What are Variables and how to use them
11:00 🎬 A looping mechanism called ForEach
14:42 🎬 Script build for VMware vSphere inventory report
Script Files
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You can download the VMware vSphere Report script file from my GitHub page. Any updates to the script will be performed via GitHub. Be sure to click on the notifications button at the top of the page.
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[@sMadaras]

You are a brilliant teacher. Your strength is didactics. It's a rare skill nowadays.

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Sandor, thank you for this great feedback, much appreciated

[@Sriharsha.G]

Sir Very nice content and teaching ,looking for more videos on VMware and powercli, learnt a lot from your videos, keep going on. Thank you.

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Sriharsha, thank you for this great feedback. Definitely more content to come, so stay tuned :)

[@mohammedasifkhanp5032]

Hello SysAdmin, How are you doing?😀 I see you have responded back to every single comments down below, this shows how enthusiastic you are and you are religiously interested getting feedback from your fellow viewers/subscribers. Well, I am your subscriber from past 8 years. your every single video is full of information as this one. And I am looking forward for more alike videos from you. Thanks a lot for your time/efforts you put behind making all this stuffs. ❤🤝😃

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Mohammed, I'm doing great hope you are well also. I really appreciate your comment and the kind words, it means a lot. Thank you for being such a long-time Sysadmin subscriber. I assure you there is more great content to come for everyone.

[@martymoreno63]

Outstanding video!

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Marty, thank you so much

[@ThePiyush383]

hey Sysadmin, Great video. Did you post any video showing, how we can get coloured the output for 'Overall Status' based on the value. Is it something to be achieved using "Out-conditionalFormating" cmdlet ? Waiting for your reply.

[@aparichit861]

Nice video for a start in PowerShell learning for a beginner. Please also make a video how to make all output data in a file which can be open in excel format.

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Aparichit, thank you. This is definately possible, not only can you produce the html report but also a CSV of the same data. I will add this into my video content list

[@MA-ob4yr]

Really Awesome, let me get more learning from you. Please create reports for cluster usage report

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi M A, thank you. We can add cluster information to this report above the hosts. What information would you like to see from the cluster ?

[@MA-ob4yr]

@@sysadmintutorials Thanks for your prompt response, I would like to pull monthly average utlization of CPU and Memory of clusters in all vcenters. Basically how to extract monthly average utlization of CPU and Memory of all clusters from multiple vcenters. This admin work will helps me really alot.

[@Sriram-qq8il]

Great.thank you

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Sriram, you are most welcome :)

[@tlourey]

Red for off yes. Yellow for error or unknown (nothings perfect - not even jasbot Powershell) Green for powered on is optional. If they *regularly* change then yes it should be green. But if the normal status is on, that status doesn't change much and it only changes when something *is* wrong there is no need to call attention to it, so leave it white

[@tlourey]

That doesn't mean you remove the item from the report. Just not highlight it

[@sysadmintutorials]

Yes that sounds good, we can add those colours in. I'll do a few options in the update and then you guys can change the script to light it up the way you want :)

[@tedsatim3555]

Thanks my dear sir! That was some good material 👌

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Ted, thank you my friend

[@vincenton3535]

Hi ❤ I love the video, pacing of your training is fantastic. Could I please ask you to email the script ? and yes love to see the host offline display in 'RED', I see if I use CHATGPT to assist if dont hear from you early enough. Now that I have this script thanks your training video, I can now produce a report to present to management of the hosts failed on a regular basis. I am yet to produce many other reports with status of other hardwares as well. How do I use your service as I am based in OZ (Australia) being in a different timezone.? Thank you kindy

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Vincenton3535 thank you for your kind comments. I see that you downloaded the script from my Github page which is great. You can reach out to me via my email. Within my KZbin channel click on About tab.

[@amitchettri_ac]

is it possible to configure the powercli on the linux node?

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Amit, yes you sure can, you have to install PowerShell first and then you can import the VMware.PowerCLI module. Have a look at this article, select Linux OS and then follow the instructions for installation: developer.vmware.com/powercli/installation-guide

[@vincenton3535]

I have created the script but when i paste the html in Chrome, the output is in html code, where in your demo, you have the GUI table. Is there something I have missed? Could I also have your email address for any further assistance or communication moving forward ?

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi again Vincent, can you elaborate on what you mean by pasting the html in Chrome ? You should only need to double click the html file once and it will open in your browser.

[@vincenton3535]

@@sysadmintutorials hi My bad, syntax error I spelt my filename.hlmt instead of html. Fixed and thank you for replying.

[@sysadmintutorials]

Great that you fixed it, easy one :)

[@abd.alharbi]

Hi. Great content. I wish you'd cover APIs as I'm trying to get tags associated to objects through APIs. Or at least refer me to an article. Cheers.

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Abdullah, thank you. This is only a beginner's guide as you can appreciate there are thousands of other things to cover but can't fit them all into a short video. However if you let me know what you're after exactly and more people want to also learn the same thing i'd be happy to create a video on it.

[@abd.alharbi]

@@sysadmintutorials Right on. The scenario is as follows; say, I have a VM that is running a service in production. It's assigned a 'prod' tag. This tag is under 'env' category. When I query for VMs, I want to see all the tags associated with each VM under all categories. I can't use PS as the reporting tool I'm using doesn't accept PS scripting. Is this achievable? I went through your channel hoping to find something that might help in that regard but wasn't successful. Looking forward to your reply.

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Abdullah, does your reporting tool accept csv's ?

[@abd.alharbi]

@@sysadmintutorials It does. The way I'm currently generating the report is by exporting the list of VMs in a CSV format and dropping the file in a specific folder to be consumed by the reporting tool. But I'm dealing with multiple data centers with different vShephere clients and the process gets monotonous. I'm resorting to APIs hoping to speed up the process.

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Abdullah you can use powershell/powercli to export to csv's

[@Culsta]

Hello, just going through your videos really amazing. I really like to know how to colour the status and also and send the report via email please. Thanks in advance 😊

[@sysadmintutorials]

Thank you Cutlas, I'm finishing up another video this week which will be posted soon on server monitoring, I will add this to my list to ensure a video comes out with those additions for you :)

[@Culsta]

@@sysadmintutorials Thank you so much for your response !! 😀 I am. Waiting boss.

[@MrArsalan1988]

Hi

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Arsalan, thanks for joining