What's New in PowerCLI 5.0

1. What’s New In PowerCLI 5.0
Jonathan Medd

2. Also known as…..
What’s New in
PowerCLI 4.1 and
5.0 in the 2nd half
of 2011

3. New in PowerCLI 5.0
Summary
• License Manager snapin
• Image Builder Snapin
• Auto Deploy Snapin
• Update Manager PowerCLI 5.0
• No change to View PowerCLI
• Support for new vSphere 5.0
features, such as Storage DRS
• Incremental updates to existing
cmdlets

4. PowerCLI 5.0 Summary

5. Also new in 2nd half of 2011
• VI Property Module
• vSphere Distributed Switch
PowerCLI Snapin released as a
Fling
• PowerCLIMan

6. License Manager Snapin
• Requires vCenter 5.0 or later
• Currently contains one cmdlet, Get-
LicenseDataManager
• Add.PSSnapin
VMware.VimAutomation.License

7. Get-LicenseDataManager Examples
1) Query Licenses
$licenseDataManager = Get-LicenseDataManager
$licenseDataManager.QueryEntityLicenseData()
2) Add Licenses
$licenseData = New-Object VMware.VimAutomation.License.Types.LicenseData
$licenseKeyEntry = New-Object
Vmware.VimAutomation.License.Types.LicenseKeyEntry
$licenseKeyEntry.TypeId = "vmware-vsphere”
$licenseKeyEntry.LicenseKey = "XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX"
$licenseData.LicenseKeys += $licenseKeyEntry
$licenseDataManager.UpdateAssociatedLicenseData($hostContainer.Uid, $licen
seData)

8. Image Builder

9. Image Builder

10. Image Builder

11. Image Builder Snapin
• Requires vCenter 5.0 or later
• Contains cmdlets for managing depots, image
profiles, and VIBs
• Add.PSSnapin VMware.ImageBuilder

12. Image Builder

13. Image Builder

14. Image Builder

15. AutoDeploy

16. AutoDeploy Snapin
• Requires vCenter 5.0 or later
• Contains cmdlets that provide an interface to
VMware Auto Deploy for provisioning physical
hosts with ESXi software
• Add.PSSnapin VMware.DeployAutomation

17. Auto Deploy & Image Builder
– where’s the GUI?
• There is no GUI (yet) for managing either Auto
Deploy or Image Builder
• Time to learn PowerShell!
• Or……

18. Image Builder and Auto Deploy PowerPack
• Alan Renouf has created a PowerGUI
PowerPack for Image Builder and Auto Deploy
• http://www.virtu-al.net/2011/09/15/image-
builder-and-auto-deploy-powerpack/

19. Image Builder and Auto Deploy Demo

20. Update Manager PowerCLI 5.0
• Requires vCenter 5.0 or later
• Does NOT work with downlevel versions of
vCenter – similar to previous releases
• Update Manager PowerCLI 4.x will not work
with Update Manager 5.0

21. Update Manager PowerCLI 5.0 – What’s New?

22. vSphere 5.0 New Features - PowerCLI Support
• Storage DRS (experimental)
• Creating virtual machines and hard disks
on datastore clusters and defining anti-
affinity rules
• ESXi Firewall

24. PowerCLI 5.0 – Incremental Updates
· Cloning templates with New-Template.
· Copying files and folders from and to the guest operating system through
the Copy-VMGuestFile cmdlet.
· Joining domains through the Get-VMHostAuthentication and Set-
VMHostAuthentication cmdlets.
· Joining ESX hosts (version 4.1 and later) into an active directory through the
Get-VMHostAuthentication and Set-VMHostAuthentication cmdlets.
· Retrieving vCenter Server users and groups through the Get-VIAccount
cmdlet.
· Support for vCenter Servers in linked mode through the Connect-VIServer
cmdlet.
· Retrieving object properties through the Get-VIProperty cmdlet.
· Moving virtual appliances through the Move-VApp cmdlets.
· Importing compressed and chunked files through the Import-VApp cmdlet.
· Importing and exporting virtual appliances in OVA format.
· Support for the SSPI passthrough feature of VIX.

25. Also new in 2nd half of 2011
• VI Property Module
• vSphere Distributed Switch
PowerCLI Snapin released as a
Fling
• PowerCLIMan

26. What is a PowerShell Module?
• A collection of files containing functions, scripts etc and possibly other
files such as the manifest to make it more professional
• Stored within a folder as a subfolder of the Modules location. Can be
found via $env:PSModulePath
• Contents made accessible to the user via the Import-Module cmdlet

27. Why Bother with a PowerShell
Module?
• Makes sharing of groups of functions and scripts easy
• Simple XCOPY style deployment of the module folder either internally or
publishing to an external website
• Make your commonly used functions available to yourself without ‘Profile
Bloat’ – they are available as and when you need them from a module

28. VI Property Module
• Currently contains 47 custom VI Properties
• Expanding in number all the time
• Maintained at www.lucd.info

29. What is a VI Property?
• Create custom properties that
persist per PowerCLI session

30. VI Property Module
• New cmdlet Get-VIProperty displays VI Properties in existing
session
• Module contains VI properties for:
– Cluster
– Datastore
– Harddisk
– PhysicalNic
– Portgroup
– ScsiControler
– ScsiLun
– Snapshot
– VirtualMachine
– VMHost
Create your own and submit them for addition to the
module.

31. vSphere Distributed Switch PowerCLI cmdlets
• The no.1 most requested missing feature from
PowerCLI
• Community effort from LucD to fill the gap
• Community effort available as a module in the
PowerCLI Book
• Now released as a snapin as a VMware Fling
• So NOT supported (yet)
– Does not work with PowerCLI 5.0 (yet)
– 32bit only

32. vSphere Distributed Switch PowerCLI cmdlets

33. vSphere Distributed Switch PowerCLI cmdlets

34. PowerCLI 5.0 Poster

35. Resources
• Image Builder – Image Builder
• How to run ESXi stateless with vSphere Auto
Deploy – Gabe’s Virtual World
• Alan Renouf on PowerScripting to talk What’s
New in PowerCLI 5.0.