Practical PowerShell Integration from Bare Metal to the Cloud
summary
Claims a working end-to-end automation that goes from bare metal BIOS and service‑profile provisioning through ESXi Auto Deploy boot, vCenter host profiles, and vCloud Director registration. Uses VMware PowerCLI plus Cisco UCS PowerTool and examples like Invoke-VMScript for in‑guest ops. Demonstrates rolling firmware and ESXi upgrades with zero VM downtime, generates code via a GUI watcher, and cites 1700 cmdlets and a demo script written in four hours as evidence it actually works.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:23What is VMware
- 10:41Open Data Book
- 14:28Snapin
- 15:45VCloud Director
- 17:05Overview
- 17:31VMware Infrastructure
- 18:45UCS
- 19:50Software Management Layer
- 21:01API
- 21:46Automation
- 32:58Auto Deploy Demo
- 33:22Defining Rules
- 35:14Virtual Center
- 36:10Post Profiles
- 39:56Deployment
- 40:16Host Maintenance
- 42:56Scripts
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