VMware PowerCLI

The current tools for creating and replacing and manipulating SSL certs across vSphere is painful, better than it used to be but still painful. Maybe add support sending CSR off to the common PKI server such as Microsoft etc.

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...

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 maintenan...

I want Connect-SRMServer to authenticate to SRM via SSPI so that I do not have to enter my credentials.

Add cmdlets to manipulate the content of Host Profiles.There is no simple, nor documented way to add/edit content of Host Profiles

When trying to dismount a CD ISO mounted in an OS, it's very common that the OS has some hold on that ISO that will cause attempts to disconnect the CDDrive to create a VM Question asking for confirmation to force the dismount. One can attempt com...

I have an OSS tool for documentation and my Mac customers can't run without this cmdlet (and others, but let's start with this one). https://github.com/arielsanchezmora/vDocumentation/issues/45Get-VMHostHardware : Cmdlet Get-VMHostHardware is not ...

Since a few PowerCli versions this cmdlet is not working anymore. We have this error: PS> get-vm -Name MyComputer | Open-VMConsoleWindowOpen-VMConsoleWindow : A general system error occurred: Authorize ExceptionAt line:1 char:25+ get-vm -N...

Today, there is a limitation with the Move-VM cmdlet for a compute-only Cross vCenter vMotion where VMDKs stored across different datastores will actually be relocated to a single datastore after performing the migration. It is possible to overrid...

PowerShell provides the ability to tab-complete parameter values via argument completers. For example: Get-Process -Name <tab> Get-Service -DisplayName <tab> Get-Command -Module VMwar<tab> Get-Variable -Name r<tab> ...