vSphere PowerCLI Getting Started

vSphere PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell, and provides more than 200 cmdlets for managing and automating vSphere.

Requirements
To use vSphere PowerCLI, you need:

.NET 2.0 Service Pack 1
Windows PowerShell 1.0 or Windows PowerShell 2.0 Release To Manufacture (RTM).
If .NET 2.0 is installed without Service Pack 1, some operations might take long to complete.

Supported Platforms
vSphere PowerCLI 4.0 Update 1 works on the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the following operating systems:

Windows Vista
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2003

vSphere PowerCLI 4.0 Update 1 supports the following VMware environments

VMware ESX Server 3.5
VMware ESX Server 3i
VMware VirtualCenter 2.5
VMware ESX 3.0 and VirtualCenter 2.0
VMware ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0
VMware ESX 4.0 Update 1 and vCenter 4.0 Update 1

Run the following (In Bold):

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

Connect-VIServer

cmdlet Connect-VIServer at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Server[0]: vc1.vmadmin.local
Server[1]:
WARNING: There were one or more problems with the server certificate:

* The X509 chain could not be built up to the root certificate.

Name                       Port                       User
----                       ----                       ----
vc1.vmadmin.local       443                        VMADMIN\administrator

Example (Get All VMs):

Get-VM

Name                 PowerState Num CPUs Memory (MB)
----                 ---------- -------- -----------
DC1                 PoweredOn 1        512
VC1                 PoweredOn 1        4096

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