Basics for PowerCli

[ranjitcool]

I wanted to write a script that will email me a daily vDR backup report.

Obviouly PowerCli is the choice. Never scriptted in it before.

Where do i look for some basic articles, looked around internet, want to get a quick start and figure my way out.

Please advice/suggest/recommend.

Thanks

[Troy_Clavell]

thread moved to VMware vSphere PowerCLI Community

[RvdNieuwendijk · Accepted solution]

Take a look at this blogpost by Allan Renouf:

http://www.virtu-al.net/2009/11/10/powercli-where-do-i-start/.

Regards, Robert

[ranjitcool]

Thanks,

This too was helpful.

http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=138

[LucD]

The bad news first, I'm afraid that there is no vDR interface available to PowerCLI.

If you want to pull reports from vDR you will have to pick up files/logs that vDR exports.

The good news, there are many sources of info available to start with PowerCLI.

To name just a few:

• The Getting Started with PowerCLI 4.1 – Automating Your vSphere Environment
• Numerous blogs, starting with PowerCLI blog which contains links to many other blogs and books
• A very interesting introductory post by Jonathan called 10 Steps to Kick-Start Your VMware Automation with PowerCLI