Some useful commands for working with PowerCLI on VMware objects
The best thing to do is to get lots of practice in with these commands
The most useful PowerShell book
This book is great for beginners and a complete introduction to PowerShell. The concepts can then be applied to PowerCLI
Useful PowerShell GUIs
Note: These will be useful for practicing Powershell with the concepts you learn being able to be applied to PowerCLI
PowerGUI
This is a free tool that is extremely useful to use PowerCLI productively and comes with a ton of pre-created scripts. That tool is PowerGUI and it includes the VMware Community PowerPack.
SAPIEN PrimalScript and PrimalForms
Two commercial tools
PowerSE and PowerWF
A free editor and a commercial workflow solution from
Idera PowerShell Plus
An editor and console environment
VMware Onyx
This tool acts as a proxy server between your vSphere Client and vCenter server. The Onyx console shows you everything you do in the vSphere Client generated as a PowerCLI script (automatically) that you can use and modify however you like
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