PowerShell, PowerCLI, and VIX are first-class citizens in PowerWF Studio for VMware, providing VMware administrators with the tools necessary to automate many of their daily tasks. PowerWF Studio for VMware offers levels of automation typically only seen in enterprise class solutions. The product supports management of VMware Server, Workstation, Player, and Virtual Infrastructure (both ESX and vCenter).
- Run workflows directly from vCenter by deploying as a VI PowerScript
- Workflows created with PowerWF are easier to understand and modify than conventional scripts.
- Run unattended workflows with the PowerWF Agent
PowerWF comes with awarding winning tools, developed by VMWare expert Robert Petruska, that provide easy-to-use GUI front ends for the command-line tools available for VMware Workstation. These tools make PowerWF a one-stop shop for VMware Workstation tools.
Features include:
Features include:
The VIX activity pack provides building blocks to quickly develop complex workflows for automating virtual machine operations, as well as the guests within virtual machines. PowerWF supports all the functions available within VMware’s VIX API with none of complexities. The product covers VMware Server 1.0, VMware Server 2.0 or earlier, Workstation 6.5 or earlier, and all versions of ESX/ESXi.
Available activities include:
In this demo we take a familiar PowerCLI one-liner scraped from a popular PowerCLI blog (http://peetersonline.nl), convert it into a workflow using PowerWF, deploy it to PowerScripter, then call it directly from the vSphere client via PowerScripter.
