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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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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 Jake Robinson

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11 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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4 Vote

Add ability to import ISO into Update Manager via PowerCLI

VCSA currently (6.7 U3) has no ability to import ISO images into Update manager via command line/PowerCLI. Code capture from VCSA does not show any output, so this functionality is not yet exposed it seems. Having a means to manage ESXi images v...

Created 21 Oct 10:54am by Guest

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3 Vote

Make the Get-Metric cmdlet useful

While the Get-Metric cmdlet could potentially be very useful, at the moment it is imho useless.The cmdlet is apparently missing the Rollup parameter.For example, when one doesGet-Metric -MetricGroup 'CPU' -Name 'usage' 4 objects are returned. I ...

Created 6 Feb 03:05pm by Luc Dekens

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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

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2 Vote

Strong-name dlls

Would it be possible for you to strong-name dlls that are distributed in the VMware PowerCLI package?We would like to distribute them alongside our .NET application, and the lack of strong-naming of your dlls prevents us from strong-naming ours.

Created 22 May 11:10am by Guest

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5 Vote

vApp and VM snapshot support for vCD Cmdlets

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 ...

Created 5 Apr 11:32am by Rudolf Kleijwegt

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6 Vote

POWERCLI to show/present the "License" label

To simplify assignment and reporting of license, please make the license label "License" public available See thread https://communities.vmware.com/message/2818509#2818509

Created 21 Nov 03:37pm by Anders Mikkelsen

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9 Vote

Add the stack type to the New-VMHostNetworkAdapter command

Can you please make it possible to create a vMotion vmk using the vMotion IP Stack type?

Created 4 Oct 12:33pm by Craig Urquhart

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