Perform Day2 Operations on vRA Deployments using PowervRACloud

With the latest version 1.4 of PowervRACloud, I have added cmdlets to manage vRA Deployments. 

In this blog, I will demonstrate how to perform Day2 Operations on vRA Deployments using PowervRACloud. 

You can visit here to get more details on PowervRACloud or reach out to me on my Twitter or @PowervRACloud

YouTube Demo

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RmVMWMbStI]

You can view the recorded YouTube Demo or go through the blog for a detailed procedure 

Pre-requisites

Following are the pre-requisites 
  • PowervRACloud Version 1.4
  • Powershell 6/7
  • Access to vRA Cloud or vRA 8.x environment

Environment Details

The cmdlets have been tested with the following environment 
  • Powershell 7.1 installed on CentOS 7
  • vRA Cloud December Release
  • vRA 8.2 

Procedure 

Step 1 – You will need to first Connect using Connect cmdlets
Connect-vRA-Cloud 
Connect-vRA-Server
Step 2 – Execute any of the following commands to perform Day2 Operations on vRA Deployment(s)

PowervRACloud Command Description Sample Output Screenshot
Get-vRA-SingleDeployment It retrieves single vRA Deployment in a particular Org. You can use output to save in variable for other cmdlets
Get-vRA-DeploymentResources It retrieves resources associated with a vRA Deployment in a particular Org. You can use output to save in variable for other cmdlets
PowerOff-vRA-Deployment It powers Off vRA Deployment in a particular Org
PowerON-vRA-Deployment It Powers ON vRA Deployment in a particular Org

Create-vRA-DeploymentResourceSnapshot It creates Snapshot for vRA Deployment Resource (vSphere Virtual Machine) in a particular Org

Delete-vRA-DeploymentResourceSnapshot It deletes Snapshot for vRA Deployment Resource (vSphere Virtual Machine) in a particular Org

Revert-vRA-DeploymentResourceSnapshot It reverts to a Snapshot for vRA Deployment Resource (vSphere Virtual Machine) in a particular Org
PowerOff-vRA-DeploymentResource It powers off a vRA Deployment Resource (vSphere Virtual Machine) in a particular Org
PowerON-vRA-DeploymentResource It powers on a vRA Deployment Resource (vSphere Virtual Machine) in a particular Org

Reset-vRA-DeploymentResource It resets a vRA Deployment Resource (vSphere Virtual Machine) in a particular Org

Reboot-vRA-DeploymentResource It reboots a vRA Deployment Resource (vSphere Virtual Machine) in a particular Org


Suspend-vRA-DeploymentResource It suspends a vRA Deployment Resource (vSphere Virtual Machine) in a particular Org

Change-vRA-DeploymentLease It modifies vRA Deployment lease in a particular Org

Change-vRA-DeploymentOwner It modifies vRA Deployment owner in a particular Org

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