PowerShell is a powerful scripting and automation language extensively utilized in Microsoft environments. Its adoption has expanded with vendors like VMware offering PowerCLI extensions, which provide system administrators with seamless access to vSphere API and automation capabilities.
This session will explore how infrastructure engineers can leverage PowerShell's flexibility to streamline repetitive tasks, expedite implementations, and simplify configurations across various components of IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, virtualization, security appliances, and storage getting to the Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) nirvana.
We will delve into real-life use cases and practical examples demonstrating how to use PowerShell to generate device configurations, utilize REST APIs, employ cmdlet extensions to manage, operate, and automate the likes of EVPN, Cisco Nexus switches, UCS servers, VMware NSX SDN, PureStorage FlashArrays, and FC SANs.
We will include the key lessons learned by comparing different approaches - the "quick & dirty" versus structured, focusing on error handling, data modeling, template usage, global variables, and the trade-offs between prebuilt and custom libraries.
Mitja Robas is an expert, with more than twenty years of experience in designing, implementing and supporting high-demand data centers, complex networks and virtualization solutions deployed for the organisations across the world. He’s been wearing multiple hats by being field engineer, consulting architect, instructor, content developer exercising and sharing his knowledge by integrating technologies from vendors like Cisco, VMware, PureStorage, Veeam, Microsoft. Recently, he is leading the Professional Services technical team at NIL part of Conscia.
