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3 Vote

Set Video Memory on VM - Enrich PowerCLI to avoid PowerShell scriptlets

similar to https://powercli.ideas.aha.io/ideas/PCLI-I-246 Currently there are so many great cmdlets for PowerCLI but often large customers are forced to rely on API calls and Powershell scriptlets. We have to jump from cmdlets to scriptlets back a...

Created 09 Nov 15:05 by Markus Struck

1 Looking for Feedback
3 Vote

3d gpu - Enrich PowerCLI to avoid PowerShell scriptlets

similar to https://powercli.ideas.aha.io/ideas/PCLI-I-246 Currently there are so many great cmdlets for PowerCLI but often large customers are forced to rely on API calls and Powershell scriptlets. We have to jump from cmdlets to scriptlets back a...

Created 09 Nov 15:03 by Markus Struck

0 Looking for Feedback
4 Vote

SaveCredentials support for Connect-HVServer

Many of the connect-* cmdlets (Connect-VIServer, Connect-OMServer) support the -SaveCredentials parameter to create a New-VICredentialStoreItem. This is great for running scripts as scheduled tasks without needing to store credentials in clear tex...

Created 25 Apr 21:37 by Guest

1 Looking for Feedback
4 Vote

Online repository with known issues (and fixes) for supported releases.

Could you consider setting up an online database that contains all known/reported issues in the supported VMware PowerCLI releases?Allow users to report issues via the platform, and after verification, make them visible on the platform. Entries re...

Created 24 Apr 17:25 by Luc Dekens

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4 Vote

Improve the wording of the warning re usage of the OSCustomizationSpec parameter.

The current warning text reads: "WARNING: Parameter 'OSCustomizationSpec' is obsolete. This parameter no longer accepts multiple values." However, the parameter is not obsolete. The correct text for this warning is: "WARNING: Parameter 'OSCustomi...

Created 22 Apr 21:56 by Joel Newton

1 Planned
5 Vote

Improve granularity for exceptions fired by PowerCLI cmdlets

Currently many PowerCLI cmdlets return a rather general VimException when something goes wrong. Often the ErrorId and ErrorCategory provide more details on the exception that was fired.But to improve error handling (in Try-Catch constructs) it wou...

Created 11 Nov 21:20 by Luc Dekens

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4 Vote

Code Capture support for scripts

In the current Code Capture version we can only "capture" actions in the Web Client.In the Onyx tool we also had an option to run a script and capture that code. Some of the advantages of such a feature would be:- "see" what code is behind a cmdle...

Created 03 Apr 11:28 by Luc Dekens

0 Will not implement
5 Vote

Adding cmdlets to retreive information about vGPUs attached to vms

It would be really great to have some cmdlets to retrieve some information about vGPUs. Because now if you added an vGPU to your vm there is no easy way to see if your vm has a vGPU attached, Of course you can log in to your ESXi host and run nvid...

Created 12 Sep 10:49 by Gemma van der Voorst

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4 Vote

cmdlet for Reconnect-VMHost

What I'm really missing is a cmdlet for reconnect-vmhost . There already are: Add-VMHostGet-VMHostMove-VMHostRemove-VMHostRestart-VMHostSet-VMHostStart-VMHostStop-VMHostSuspend-VMHost But, when I've installed an ESXi node and added it to vCenter...

Created 05 Feb 10:58 by Gemma van der Voorst

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4 Vote

Content library support for Set-CDDrive cmdlet it is already available via New-CDDrive -ContentLibraryIso

pretty much what the title says we need support to connect an ISO from the content library to a VM. currently we have to use a workaround that removes the CD drive and than adds a new one with the Content library Iso parameter set in order to have...

Created 28 Jan 14:20 by Guest

2 Planned