VMware PowerCLI

Currently when using NEW-VM the -CD option defaults to the IDE bus. Would be nice to be able to take advantage of SATA when attaching peripherals most especially the CDRom

SSO provides a central licensing mechanism, but reporting is still very much vcenter by vcenter. I would like functionality to report licenses and usage by sso domain

It would be great to have more comandlets for vROPs like create/modify/delete custom groups user permission management import/export policies

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...

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...

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 ...

The -ScriptText parameter for Invoke-VMScript currently only allows a string of 2869 or fewer characters. Anything longer than that is rejected and ScriptOutput returns an empty string. Allowing more characters will allow for more complex scripts ...

Currently there is no property for physical network adapters on hosts that simply lists the link as "up" or "down" like you would be able to see from the ESXCLI or in the vSphere client. This would be useful for getting a quick report of all hosts...