VMWare - Connect to VMWare ESXi using PowerShell
by
Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: March 16 2020
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Add the following to PowerShell ISE to connect to a VMWare ESXi hypervisor:
Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
Add-PSSnapin VMware.VumAutomation
Connect-VIServer -Server server_name -User username -Password password
You can add additional commands to this script to automate certain tasks. For example, you could automate the backup of the VMWare datastores.
Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
Add-PSSnapin VMware.VumAutomation
Connect-VIServer -Server server_name -User username -Password password
$datastore = Get-Datastore Datasore1
$datastore.ExtensionData.info.url
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