VMware PowerCLI

From the time when the animals could still speak, the $global:DefaultVIServer and $global:DefaultVIServers variables have been a pain in the * for intellisense. Who hasn't typed $global:def followed by a <Tab> (ISE) or <Ctrl><Space)...

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...

Currently the Remove-HardDisk cmdlet comes with the message "The FlatHardDisk 'xyz.vmdk' is not attached to a VM. The requested operation is only supported for devices attached to VM" when applied to a zombie VMDK.While Get-HardDisk has a Datasto...

Currently there is no property for physical network adapters on hosts that simply lists the link as "up" or "down" like you would be able to see from the ESXCLI or in the vSphere client. This would be useful for getting a quick report of all hosts...

Request: Add Version and Content Version to returned data of Get-ContentLibraryItem cmdlet (or via extension data). Background: Working with New/Set-ContentLibraryItem and needing to update Description field with updated template info. If submitte...

Forcing the client side to have the same certificate trust chain as the server places undue burden to have the two in sync. The clients are many, untrusted and ephemeral, there should be no need to force their upkeep if the check on the VC/ESX can...

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 vCen...

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 does Get-Metric -MetricGroup 'CPU' -Name 'usage' 4 objects are returned....

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 wo...

Afaik this relic of the old "init" script serves no other purpose besides displaying some text on the console.And that text is quite annoying when importing the PowerCLI modules from an automation script.