Chapter 4. Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI

In this chapter, we will cover the following major recipes:

• Enabling remote management on a Horizon View Connection Server so that PowerShell can be used remotely
• Establishing a remote PowerShell session
• Viewing all the PowerCLI commands and their options
• Managing desktop pools with PowerCLI
• Creating an automatically provisioned linked-clone desktop pool
• Creating an automatically provisioned full-clone desktop pool
• Creating a manually provisioned desktop pool
• Creating a manual unmanaged desktop pool
• Creating a Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Pool
• Updating the Horizon View pools
• Creating a network label specifications
• Exporting network label specifications for linked-clone pools
• Exporting network label specifications for full-clone pools
• Retrieving the Horizon View Composer Server information
• Retrieving a list of the Horizon View desktop pools
• Removing desktop pools
• Entitling a desktop pool
• Entitling or unentitling an individual desktop
• Reviewing the desktop pool entitlement
• Refreshing a linked-clone desktop or pool
• Recomposing a linked-clone desktop pool
• Rebalancing a linked-clone desktop pool
• Updating the Horizon View global settings
• Updating the Horizon View connection broker settings
• Adding a vCenter Server to Horizon View
• Removing a vCenter Server from Horizon View
• Updating the settings of vCenter Server that is linked to Horizon View
• Monitoring the remote Horizon View sessions
• Resetting a Horizon View desktop
• Disconnecting the Horizon View Client session
• Logging Off the Horizon View Client Session
• Configuring the Horizon View license
• Retrieving the global Horizon View configuration data
• Retrieving the Horizon View connection broker information
• Retrieving a list of virtual machines that are managed by Horizon View
• Retrieving a list of physical machines
• Retrieving AD user or group Information
• Retrieving information about persistent data disks
• Retrieving the Horizon View event reports and their descriptions
• Retrieving the Horizon View event reports
• Retrieving the Horizon View infrastructure health monitors and their status
• Retrieving a list of the vCenter Servers linked to the Horizon View environment
• Retrieving a list of the Windows RDS Servers registered with Horizon View