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Sajal Debnath
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Sajal Debnath

Sajal Debnath is a highly certified Cloud computing technocrat with more than 12 years of experience in virtualized data center design, Cloud computing, and BC/DR solutions. He is an EMCISA, VCAP-DCD/DCA, VCAP-CID/CIA, RHCE 4/5/6, RHCVA, Openstack, and ITIL certified person. He is presently associated with VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd. as a senior system engineer. Previously, he worked with France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, and many more in multiple roles. He is involved in prestigious Indian government projects, such as National Cloud, Digital Locker, and so on.
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PowerActions for vSphere Web Client


The last topic of this chapter is PowerActions for vSphere Web Client. This is an amazing fling that integrates the vSphere Web Client and PowerCLI to provide complex automation solutions from within the standard vSphere Web Client.

This is actually deployed as a plugin for the vSphere Web Client and allows the end users access to PowerCLI commands and scripts in the vSphere Web Client integrated PowerShell Console. In addition to that, this enables the users to right-click on entity in Web Client and run a script against that entity. Sounds amazing, right? Also, Mac and Linux users get the PowerShell console from their environment directly.

The fling can be installed from https://labs.vmware.com/flings/poweractions-for-vsphere-web-client. The prerequisites for this fling installation are as follows:

  • VMware vSphere 5.1 to 6.0 (earlier than 5.1 has not been tested)

  • PowerShell host machine

  • Windows 2003 Server or newer

  • .NET 4.0 or 4.5

  • PowerShell v1, v2, v3, or v4...

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Sajal Debnath

Sajal Debnath is a highly certified Cloud computing technocrat with more than 12 years of experience in virtualized data center design, Cloud computing, and BC/DR solutions. He is an EMCISA, VCAP-DCD/DCA, VCAP-CID/CIA, RHCE 4/5/6, RHCVA, Openstack, and ITIL certified person. He is presently associated with VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd. as a senior system engineer. Previously, he worked with France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, and many more in multiple roles. He is involved in prestigious Indian government projects, such as National Cloud, Digital Locker, and so on.
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