Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "The –Name parameter is required."

A block of code is set as follows:

$Cluster = Get-Cluster –Name Cluster01
New-VM –Name VM1 –ResourcePool $Cluster

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

PowerCLI C:\> New-VM –Name VM1 –ResourcePool (Get-Cluster –Name Cluster01)

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "clicking the Next button moves you to the next screen".