VMware PowerCLI

Currently, some features of StorageDRS Clusters require using ConfigSpec calls, which is cumbersome, while other config aspects are in the CmdLet. For instance, I can set SpaceUtilizationThresholdPercent, but I can't set the desired Affinity rules...

It would be useful to specify the parameters like hostprofile, Image Profile, Scriptbundle.. not via "-Item". It´s not even clear to everyone what the content of "-Item" means. Imagin you have named your cluster and hostprofile by the same name. Y...

We were in a big migration, when i say big I maen move 1000+ vms over 100+ datastores multi-vendor. Total 1500 TB of storage. and it would have been very handful if there was a cmdlet we could use to only migrate the config files of a vm. I found ...

It would be nice to be able to easily configure networking as it was once before. Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface / Set-VMGuestNetworkInterface, you are missed.

essentially make it where new-Harddisk doesn’t throw invalid disk backing when trying to add physical RDMs to the second node of a mscs cluster. I was able to figure out how to script it after many hours of research.

For NSX IDFW and 3rd party integration, GI drivers must be installed

This Command does not downgrade VIBs: Install-VMHostPatch -VMHost $VMhost -HostPath $HostPath ESXCLI also downgrades VIBs: $esxcli2 = Get-ESXCLI -VMHost $VMhost -V2 $CreateArgs=$esxcli2.software.vib.install.CreateArgs() $CreateArgs.depot=$Hos...

Update the various get-cluster, set-cluster, etc... to support the features that are currently only available through the GUI - Predictive DRS, Migration Threshold, DataStore PDL, Datastore ADL, Heartbeat DataStore location, etc..

There are many Virtual Appliances such as vSphere Replication, HCX as well as other 3rd party solutions which integrate with vCenter Server's vService Extension Service. For these OVF/OVAs to be properly deployed and powered on, you need to bind t...

The Server parameter that is present on multiple cmdlets, has imho some inconsistencies. For example: - connect to 2 vCenters (VC1 and VC2) - get an ESXi node object from VC1 ($esx = Get-VMHost -Server VC1 | Select -First 1) - now Get-VIPermission...