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PowerCLI module for App Volumes

connecting and getting info from app volumes manager. deleting/creating/expending user writable volumes. managing appstack /writables assignments. automating configurations and operations.

Created 6 Sep 08:38pm by Daniel Bakshi

2
5 Vote

Enrich PowerCLI to avoid PowerShell scriptlets

Currently there are so many great cmdlets for PowerCLI but often large customers are forced to rely on API calls and Powershell scriptlets, for example to set a boot.delay timeout for VMs during boot. We have to jump from cmdlets to scriptlets bac...

Created 2 Jul 01:56pm by Markus Struck

1 Planned
2 Vote

Enable all vCenter / Host cmdlets to target a specific connection

Not all cmdlets have the -Server attribute and only function if there is a VIServer connection in the $DefaultVIServers variable.An example New-SpbmRuleSet does not have the -Server attribute and throws an error if there is not a VIServer connecti...

Created 24 Sep 01:15pm by John Whittingham

0
37 Vote

Power Actions for HTML5 client

Frankly, I'm surprised I couldn't find this already in the list. I'd like/love to see PowerActions available in the H5 client. There's many things that you can't do in the UI that you can in the API. PowerActions offers the ability to extend the U...

Created 17 Sep 05:23pm by Mike Foley

0 Planned
36 Vote

Update Manager Configuraton

Would be good to get cmdlets for configuring all settings in VUM, such as configuring download settings, local repository, download schedules, and the esxi host/cluster options for update manager

Created 25 Sep 08:05pm by Sam Robertson

3
30 Vote

Cross vCenter Cloning

As an Admin, I want to use `New-VM` to create a VM from a clone on a different linked vCenter, so that I do not have to clone and then migrate.

Created 19 Dec 05:24pm by Jake Robinson

4
22 Vote

Official vRA Module

I have been using the community-based PowervRA module lately to import and export vRA content, and the scriptability for this is much better than the current cloud client. It would be awesome to see VMware officially support or develop the PowervR...

Created 20 Aug 02:57pm by Guest

2
14 Vote

Official NSX-T Module

I appreciate William's work on the community NSX-T module, but we require an officially supported and maintained module from the vendor.

Created 10 May 06:19pm by Guest

0 Will not implement
22 Vote

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 07:01pm by Cole Reynolds

4
6 Vote

Review module VMware.PowerCLI so it acts as a normal PowerShell module

The VMware.PowerCLI module undoubtedly serves a purpose, in that it allows one to update all PowerCLI modules by just doingUpdate-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLIBut there are a number of side-effects that are quite annoying and unique to the PowerCLI...

Created 27 Feb 01:43pm by Luc Dekens

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