PowerShell for Networking Engineers

In the first part of the PowerShell webinar Mitja Robas described the basics of PowerShell, the environments in which you could run it, and demonstrated how you could use it to execute simple REST API calls.

You can use PowerShell to create device configurations, push device configurations to network devices, execute REST API calls to configure or monitor network devices that support REST API, or combine all these functions into a full-blown infrastructure provisioning solution.

PowerNSX allows you to query, create, and delete VMware NSX objects - from transport zones and logical switches to edge routers, BGP routing or distributed firewalls - with PowerShell.

In this section of the webinar Anthony Burke and Nick Bradford describe the basics of PowerNSX and usage guidelines, and demonstrate several real-life examples, from creating a VXLAN-backed port group to full-blown application infrastructure provisioning and automatic Visio diagramming.