Creating virtual machines

We will use the following cmdlets to manage the different aspects of managing a virtual machine in a vSphere environment using PowerCLI cmdlets:

• Get-VM

• Move-VM

• New-VM

• Remove-VM

• Set-VM

We will start by creating a simple virtual machine. To do this, we will use the New-VM cmdlet:

PS C:\> New-VM -Name Test3 -ResourcePool Mgmt -Datastore iSCSI-4 ` -NumCPU 1 -MemoryGB 1 -DiskGB 10 -NetworkName "VM Network" `
–Floppy -CD -DiskStorageFormat Thin -GuestID winNetDatacenterGuest

Name                 PowerState Num CPUs MemoryGB       
----                 ---------- -------- --------       
Test3                PoweredOff 1        1.000   

The output will be as follows:

Note that the ResourcePool parameter accepts ResourcePool, Cluster, VApp, and standalone VMHost as input options. For example, in the following screenshot, I am creating a VM directly under the cluster, Lab Cluster:

We can use the Get-VM cmdlet to check the list of available VMs or a particular VM:

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