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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 4 Sep 09:41pm by Guest

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12 Vote

Support for Standalone ESXi Host for OVF cmdlets: Get-OvfConfiguration / Import-VApp

Importing an OVF/OVA can be deployed to either a vCenter Server and/or Standalone ESXi endpoint. Today, both Get-OvfConfiguration / Import-VApp assumes vCenter Server connection but this should not be a constraint or limitation as OVF/OVA import s...

Created 3 Nov 04:19pm by William Lam

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12 Vote

Ability to clear/set status on specific alarms

It would be incredibly useful to be able to programmatically reset a triggered alarm back to green. Not for all alarms of a certain type or across all entities, but a single alarm triggered against a single individual entity. Perhaps something lik...

Created 3 Mar 10:29am by RYAN ROLAND

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12 Vote

Set-CDDrive -Force switch

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...

Created 25 Feb 08:37pm by RYAN ROLAND

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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 03:14pm by Greg Madro

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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 03:34pm by Alan Renouf

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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 1 May 12:53am by Guest

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11 Vote

Make Datastores/Cluster/Hosts as fast as Get-VM

I work in a large environment and these are not fast, would be great to get the same as Get-VM

Created 28 Aug 01:46am by Deleted User

1 Planned
10 Vote

Include python in Invoke-VMScript

I would like if Invoke-VMScript could call python scripts directly, without the need to create a wrapper in bash. This would save cycles on the guest VM and this use case would beneficial to anybody that is managing a multitude of Linux VMs.

Created 5 Sep 10:57pm by Dave Kalaluhi

5 Planned
10 Vote

Get-Log -Bundle without the coredump

Would be great if we could get the support bundle without the coredump included as we have TB of memory in our hosts and this inflates the size of the log file and makes it harder to send back to support.

Created 28 Aug 01:49am by Guest

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