From PowerCLI to API – Taking Your Automation Skills to...
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Shows that switching from PowerCLI object wrappers to raw API calls cuts overhead and reveals more properties and methods: concrete timing examples 1.89s vs 1.25s and snapshot queries 2.35s vs <1s, measured 30–80% savings at scale. Uses PowerCLI Get-VM/Get-View, Invoke-RestMethod with vCenter REST, VS Code, Postman and curl2ps, demonstrates building a session token and created VM via REST API that boots successfully. Also explains JSON payloads, enumerations, and where to find managed object IDs.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:28Automation beyond PowerShell
- 10:09Planning automation
- 18:52PowerCLI vs API performance
- 24:07Modular code and API
- 30:49REST API basics
- 36:45vCenter REST API auth
- 42:21Create VM via API
- 50:24Summary
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