Working with ports

So far, we have worked with host, switch, and port groups; now, let's explore how we can get details of a port and modify it. To manage a port, we will use the following two cmdlets:

• Get-VDPort

• Set-VDPort

We can get the details of the port using the Get-VDPort cmdlet and set details via the Set-VDPort cmdlet.

Configuring traffic shaping

We can use PowerCLI to configure traffic shaping in distributed ports, and we can use the following two cmdlets to configure it:

• Get-VDTrafficShapingPolicy

• Set-VDTrafficShapingPolicy

Obviously, Get-VDTrafficShapingPolicy will provide you with the details of the current policy set and Set-VDTrafficShapingPolicy will allow us to change the existing settings.

Next, let's set the parameters for traffic shaping.

Configuring port blocking

Next, we will check port blocking options using PowerCLI. The following are the cmdlets available for this purpose:

• Get-VDBlockedPolicy

• Set-VDBlockedPolicy

  

Configuring the security policy

To configure the security...