VMware PowerCLI

While the Get-Metric cmdlet could potentially be very useful, at the moment it is imho useless.The cmdlet is apparently missing the Rollup parameter.For example, when one doesGet-Metric -MetricGroup 'CPU' -Name 'usage' 4 objects are returned. I ...

Today, vCenter SSO operations can not be Automated through PowerCLI, it would be very useful to expose a module that would provide such capabilities. Below are several articles outline use cases that rely on a CLI that resides on the vCenter Serve...

The Get-Metric returns metric information, but it only shows the metric's Label, not the Key.While on the Get-Stat cmdlet the Stat parameter expects the Key.An example:On Get-Metric one has to useGet-Metric -MetricGroup 'CPU' -Name 'Core Utilizati...

Open Source PowerCLI in the same way that PowerShell has been open sourced, i think the benefits are clear from what we have seen with PowerShell. Would be great to see the source code in a github repo where the community can contribute.

Would be great to be able to get PowerCLI Core on the vRO appliance and to be able to paste PowerCLI code straight into a workflow!

Would be great to have an official NSX-V Module from VMware that is supported, the community one works great but its not officially supported so we can't use it in production.

ability to work with baseline groups through PowerCLI and VUM

VMware PowerCLI cmdlets are way more verbose than regular PowerShell cmdlets.A demonstration function Get-Test{ [cmdletbinding()] param() Write-Verbose "In function" Get-VM | Out-Null Get-Process | Out-Null}Get-Test -Verbose This produces the fo...

It would be great to have Cmdlets for adding/removing/assigning/getting licenses via PowerCLI for all relevant products. i.e. ESXi license, vCenter license, vSAN License etc. This would help improve the ability to add/assign licenses quickly b...

connecting and getting info from app volumes manager. deleting/creating/expending user writable volumes. managing appstack /writables assignments. automating configurations and operations.