My journey to automate vCloud Director with PowerShell – part #4 : create an organization virtual datacenter

After creating an organization, the next part was to create an OrgVDC. With the help of the New-OrgVDC commandlet, it was not really difficult to create one. (https://code.vmware.com/docs/11794/cmdlet-reference/doc/New-OrgVdc.html) You just have add name and description and references to other objects which you can easily get. In the above example I …

My journey to automate vCloud Director with PowerShell – part #3 : create an organization

create an organization To create an organization you can use the commandlet New-Org (https://code.vmware.com/docs/11794/cmdlet-reference/doc/New-Org.html). It provides some basic parameters for the organization.   What I missed here is the ability to set the policy settings of the organization. For example the vApp and vApp template leases.But I found that if …

My journey to automate vCloud Director with PowerShell – part #2: Connect

connect This was the simplest part of the journey. Just execute the Connect-CIServer commandlet (https://code.vmware.com/docs/11794/cmdlet-reference/doc/Connect-CIServer.html) and you’re finished. The only thing you need to know whether you want to log in as Organization Administrator and make changes in the vCloud Director organization or if you want to log on as …