VMware PowerCLI

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11 Vote

Port VMHostHardware to PowerCLI core

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/45 Get-VMHostHardware : Cmdlet Get-VMHostHardware is not...

Created 01 May 00:53 by Guest

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14 Vote

Cmdlet to let you upload patch zip files to Update Manager

Updating patch zip files to Update Manager by PowerCLI is currently missing, preventing full automation across multiple vCenters. Adding a new cmdlet for this would be useful in several automation scripts for new and current deployments.

Created 31 Aug 16:07 by Guest

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4 Vote

Add support to remediate a single host with the cluster based image update

Now its only possible to remediate the whole cluster but not a single hosts over powerCLI. I can update a single host over the gui without problems, that should also be possible over powerCLI.

Created 10 Oct 14:45 by Guest

2 Already exists
13 Vote

Add all Common parameters, including WhatIf & Confirm, to all PowerCLI cmdlets that can cause a change

There are still a number of PowerCLI cmdlets, that change objects/settings/environments, that do not support the Common Parameters, of which WhatIf and Confirm are the more important ones.Some examples: Update-Tools, Remove-EsxSoftwareDepot, Expor...

Created 29 Sep 19:06 by Luc Dekens

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13 Vote

Allow New-ScsiController to hot add new SCSI controllers

Via the GUI, one is able to add a new SCSI controller to a running VM. However, New-ScsiController never allows this, and returns exception "The VM must be in the following state: PoweredOff." It would be nice to have parity with the GUIs here for...

Created 26 Sep 01:55 by Dan Barr

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13 Vote

Create commandlet for managing VM scheduled tasks

Currently, creating or modifying schedule tasks like reboots or snapshots requires a visit to the gui. During a Windows Updates cycle, we will many VMs to individually schedule for reboot.

Created 04 Sep 21:41 by Guest

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12 Vote

Add License Key info to vCenter object

It may not be a huge addition, but it would be nice to see LicenseKey as an attribute of vCenter in a way similar to the ESXi hosts "I.E. get-vmhost | select LicenseKey". The alternative is a good bit of get-view trickery with the LicenseManager.

Created 15 Feb 15:14 by Greg Madro

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4 Vote

Support for gMSA

Add support to run PowerCLI scripts using managed service accounts. This allows for non-interactive executions of PowerCLI scripts.

Created 20 Jul 05:34 by Guest

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12 Vote

Get VMware Component Versions

I would like official VMware cmdlets to be able to get a list of the versions of the VMware components I have installed in my environment as per Williams site here: http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2017/08/powercli-script-to-help-correlate-vcenter-e...

Created 23 Aug 15:34 by Alan Renouf

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5 Vote

Get-Tag, Get-Category, and Get-TagAssignment should have an option for EntityType

The Get- command for Tags should have an option for EntityType to only select the Tags, Categories, or Assignments for those EntityTypes. On large systems pulling all the TagAssignments and then filtering with Where-Object can be slow.

Created 24 Sep 23:04 by Seth Randall

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