VMware PowerCLI

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6 Vote

Firmware Versions

It would be great if there is a script to get all the HBA/NIC Firmware versions compared to the latest supported version.

Created 26 Feb 13:06 by Guest

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6 Vote

Ability to query VMware HCL for devices on hypervisor through powercli,

This could save a good bit of time with managing multiple server makes and models and easily validate if the firmware and driver are supported on the machine for the version of ESXi/vSAN it is running. It would also be awesome that if it the firmw...

Created 15 Feb 14:49 by Guest

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Add IPv6 support to the OSCustomizationSpec cmdlets

While the Web Client and the API methods allow manipulation of IPv6 configurations, the OSCustomizationSpec cmdlets do not seem to have that feature.

Created 02 Jan 08:06 by Luc Dekens

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5 Vote

Get rid of the over-eager verbosity on PowerCLI cmdlets

VMware PowerCLI cmdlets are way more verbose than regular PowerShell cmdlets. A demonstration function Get-Test{ [cmdletbinding()] param() Write-Verbose "In function" Get-VM | Out-Null Get-Process | Out-Null} Get-Test -Verbose This produces the f...

Created 08 Dec 10:38 by Luc Dekens

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7 Vote

Add vCenter Property

For those of us managing multiple vCenters it would be helpful for a vCenter property to be created by default for every object based on UID without having to create custom VIProperties at the beginning of each session. I currently create the prop...

Created 05 Dec 14:02 by Guest

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7 Vote

Add cmdlets to automate the full deployment of a SRM stack

Currently, to fully standup a SRM Stack, the creation and configuration is done through GUI which prevents us from automating the deployment. There are some SRM cmdlets, but they expect the SRM server to be already deployed. Also, the cmdlets don'...

Created 09 Nov 20:15 by David Brown

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2 Vote

New cmdlet to create scheduled vCenter Backup

Today it's only possible to create instantaneously Backup from vCenter. It would be very usefull to manage the scheduled Backup inside the vCenter via PowerCLI.

Created 08 Nov 10:22 by Stephan Koch

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7 Vote

In the PowerCLI Reference indicate to which module a cmdlet belongs

In the PowerCLI Reference add a line that says to which PowerCLI module a cmdlet belongs.

Created 29 Sep 18:01 by Luc Dekens

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6 Vote

Introduce a cmdlet or system variable that returns the VMware Configuration Maximums

The introduction of the VMware Configuration Maximums webpage ( https://configmax.vmware.com ) is a huge improvement over the previous 30+ pages documents.And it demonstrates that the numbers are available in a query-able format. It would be reall...

Created 03 Oct 18:07 by Luc Dekens

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Add a "recurse" option for the Entity parameter on the Get-VIEvent cmdlet

Currently the Get-VIEvent cmdlet only returns for the entity mentioned on the Entity parameter.This means for example, that it only returns events for the cluster itself when a cluster object is passed on the Entity parameter. It does not return e...

Created 21 Sep 16:13 by Luc Dekens

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