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Netstack support

As VMware starts to split out core services into using their own netstacks (the best practice for vMotion today is to use the vmotion netstack... expecting to see other things like vSAN head in that direction, too)... it's even more important to b...

Created 23 Aug 18:53 by Steve Kaplan

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PowerCLI 10 compatibility with PoshRSJob

Now that we have a new version of PowerCLI being developed, could we get you all to add compatibility for PowerCLI cmdlets with the PoshRSJob module? I have been struggling with this for about a year now, and I think this may be the opportunity to...

Created 21 Mar 19:01 by Cole Reynolds

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20 Vote

Pester support : add an option to create a "mock" PowerCLI .Net object with values assigned to properties

In Pester one can mock an object, and that also works for the PowerCLI .Net objects.But the New-MockObject cmdlet creates an empty object, and since most properties in PowerCLI .Net objects are read-only, that doesn't offer the possibility to mock...

Created 24 Jan 21:40 by Luc Dekens

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19 Vote

New-AlarmDefinition cmdlet

Cmdlets exist to create new alarm actions and triggers on existing alarms, but no cmdlet exists to actually create a new alarm.

Created 07 Sep 18:55 by Jason Robinson

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Notes/Description for Maintenance Mode

Would like to add a command line option to provide details when a user puts a host into maintenance mode. We have this option today with shutdown. Customer requested through TAM: Lack of communication internally when a host is put into maintenance...

Created 23 May 19:30 by Guest

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Expose VM Create Date property in Get-VM if/when createDate is available in vSphere API

The version of vSphere running on VMware Cloud on AWS introduces a new createData property under VM->config->createDate[1] which provides the date/time of when a VM is created. Today this is currently not available outside of VMWonAWS, but i...

Created 23 Oct 17:29 by William Lam

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15 Vote

Minimise the time between PowerShell v6 RTM and PowerCLI Core RTM (preferable to 0 days)

When PowerShell Core alpha (aka PS v6) was released, PowerCLI Core was released (as a fling) on the same day. Unfortunately PowerCLI Core stopped following the release schema of PS v6 since PS v6 went into beta. It would be a missed opportunity, i...

Created 31 Aug 03:13 by Luc Dekens

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14 Vote

Correlate Guest Disk to VMDK

When it comes time to re-size a disk, if multiple disks in the guest share the same size there is no indication which disk in the VMware configuration needs to be changed. I would want to see it work like a cmdlet or a view that matches them up an...

Created 21 Feb 15:52 by Guest

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Add the VM Encryption cmdlets to PowerCLI so the features are supported

Add the VM Encryption cmdlets to PowerCLI so the features are supported, these are currently found in a community module here: https://github.com/vmware/PowerCLI-Example-Scripts/tree/master/Modules/VMware.VMEncryption

Created 22 Aug 13:25 by Alan Renouf

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Managing cpu/mem hot-add for VMs

Currently there isn't a good way to configure VM memory hot-add and cpu hot-add via PowerCLI. These seem like good options for Set-VM.

Created 31 Aug 17:17 by Damien Solodow

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