Using PowerShell to Deploy Unified Access Gateway

A PowerShell script can be used to deploy Unified Access Gateway. The PowerShell script is delivered as a sample script that you can adapt to your environment specific needs.

When you use the PowerShell script, to deploy Unified Access Gateway, the script calls the OVF Tool command and validates the settings to automatically construct the correct command-line syntax. This method also allows advanced settings such as configuration of the TLS/SSL server certificate to be applied at deployment time.

System requirements to deploy Unified Access Gateway using PowerShell

To deploy Unified Access Gateway using PowerShell script, you must use specific versions of the products mentioned.

Note: The Windows Powershell ISE application is not supported for UAG deployments

• PowerShell script runs on Windows 8.1 or later machines or Windows Server 2008 R2 or later

• vSphere ESXi host with a vCenter Server

• Windows or Ubuntu machine running the script must have OVF Tool command installed

  You must install OVF Tool 4.0.1 or later. See Open Virtualization Format (OVF) Tool

• Microsoft Azure - see PowerShell deployment to Microsoft Azure

• Amazon AWS EC2 - see PowerShell deployment to Amazon AWS EC2

  You must select the vSphere datastore and the network to use.

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - see PowerShell deployment to Google Cloud Platform

• vCloud Director - see PowerShell deployment to vCloud Director

• Microsoft Hyper-V

• VMware Cloud Director - see PowerShell deployment to vCloud Director

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