VMware PowerCLI

Sometimes we end up having to use Powercli just to end up using other CLI via powercli itself (for example the ESX CLI). It would be very useful to have powercli have access to see what those options and commands are available, rather than consta...

Since Powershell v3, we are allowed to splat paramters which can be very useful, espcially when you dymancaly build your splat out of your variables e.g. NICTeamingPolicy Get Name MemberType Definition---- ---------- ----------ActiveNic Propert...

It would be nice to be able to locally generate a fully customized sysprep file and then use it in a non-persistent OS customization spec. This would allow per-vm customizations to be injected into the unattend file via script without having to s...

Ability to execute on the host via a remote command a DNS ping to validate host can reach DNS and/or NTP servers. Would allow to remotely validate DNS and NTP are reachable and responding by each host. Reports as "ok" or "fail _DNS x.x.x.x"

Returns all IP's, masks, gateways currently in use by a host and why for each host. With options to export all or select like vmotion, vsan, kernel, FT, etc..

I want to be able to do something like this: Query VMs on a particular datastore e.g. vSANdatastore, VVolDatastore Query policy of those VMs e.g. Get-SpbmEntityConfiguration Query default policy on datastore Flag if there is a mismatch betwe...

$a = get-cisservice com.vmware.cis.tagging.tag $alltags = $a.list() $a.get($tag) We have too many tags and being able to filter based on category and name would be helpful.

Allow end user to pull vmware.log from VM by passing VM Obj to Get-Log or VM name.

In the current VimDatastore PSProvider a New-Item always results in the creation of a folder.In analogy with the FileSystem PSProvider, it would be useful being able to use the ItemType parameter to specify either a File or a Directory.That would ...

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..