VMware PowerCLI

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.

I need access to more logs (auth, syslog, fdm, etc). Today I can only access via SSH or web services.

Set up something similar to MSFT's UserVoice, where users can up/down-vote issues.Involve the Dev Team to provide, if available, workarounds for a new issue, or at least that they could reproduce the issue.This would be a more organized platform t...

It would be great to have more comandlets for LogInsight, like User permission management config management (timeservice,authentication...)

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 -Name...

With infrastructure as a code in mind, wouldn't it be great to use PowerCLI cmdlets to automate the creation of vms with a vGPU attached to it.

From the time when the animals could still speak, the $global:DefaultVIServer and $global:DefaultVIServers variables have been a pain in the * for intellisense. Who hasn't typed $global:def followed by a <Tab> (ISE) or <Ctrl><Space)...

Currently there is no Cmdlet that supports snapshot management for vApps and VMs. The API seems to have plenty snapshot functions, so this shouldn't be a very difficult task. https://code.vmware.com/apis/553/doc/doc/landing-user_operations.html ...

How about running #PowerShell7 on ESXi host and vCenter Server natively so that we don't need to use proxy LCM server for vSphere DSC module. With this we can actually implement DSC in its pure form and get rid of Proxy LCM.