Installing VMware PowerCLI on macOS

PowerCLI is a PowerShell-based command-line interface developed by VMware for managing and automating VMware vSphere environments. It provides a comprehensive set of tools. It allows IT professionals to automate various aspects of vSphere management, including virtual machines (VMs), networking, storage, and guest operating systems.

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Deploying vSphere IaaS Control Plane with Avi Load Balancer and VDS – part 1

vSphere IaaS Control Plane with VMware Avi Load Balancer and vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides a robust architecture for managing and delivering containerized applications in a virtualized environment. This setup, enables unified environment where Kubernetes applications can run alongside with traditional virtual machines. Administrators can deploy K8S workload clusters directly on vSphere environment. For some time, this product was know as vSphere with Tanzu or Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service, aka TKGs.

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Backup and restore ESXi host configuration data using command line

In some cases we need to reinstall ESXi host. To avoid time consuming setting up servers, we can quickly backup and restore host configuration. To achieve this, there are three possible ways: ESXi command line, vSphere CLI or PowerCLI

In this article I will show how backup and restore host configuration data using ESXi command line.

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