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Make Connect-VIServer fail with error when passthrough authenticaion fails

Hi, I find it very annoying that you cannot handle a connection failure if Passthrough authentication does not work. Connect-VIServer will ALWAYS ask for credentials if it cannot connect to vCenter and you did not specify the credentials parameter...

Created 25 Oct 12:32pm by Guest

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6 Vote

Change the Connect-CisServer cmdlet to use Windows integrated logon if no explicit credentials are supplied like connect-viserver does.

When using connect-cisserver from within a scheduled task running as Active Directory domain user one can connect to vcenter without explicit providing credentials, it's automatic using the windows integrated credentials of the user running the ta...

Created 6 Jan 09:59pm by Guest

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3 Vote

remove serial port - Enrich PowerCLI to avoid PowerShell scriptlets

similar to https://powercli.ideas.aha.io/ideas/PCLI-I-246 Currently there are so many great cmdlets for PowerCLI but often large customers are forced to rely on API calls and Powershell scriptlets. We have to jump from cmdlets to scriptlets back a...

Created 9 Nov 03:10pm by Markus Struck

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3 Vote

Set Video Memory on VM - Enrich PowerCLI to avoid PowerShell scriptlets

similar to https://powercli.ideas.aha.io/ideas/PCLI-I-246 Currently there are so many great cmdlets for PowerCLI but often large customers are forced to rely on API calls and Powershell scriptlets. We have to jump from cmdlets to scriptlets back a...

Created 9 Nov 03:05pm by Markus Struck

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3 Vote

3d gpu - Enrich PowerCLI to avoid PowerShell scriptlets

similar to https://powercli.ideas.aha.io/ideas/PCLI-I-246 Currently there are so many great cmdlets for PowerCLI but often large customers are forced to rely on API calls and Powershell scriptlets. We have to jump from cmdlets to scriptlets back a...

Created 9 Nov 03:03pm by Markus Struck

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6 Vote

Add the ability to create VVol datastores using the New-Datastore cmdlet

To automate the bulk creation of datastores, using PowerCLI I'd like the ability to create Datastores of different types. e.g. NFS/VMFS & VVols The new-datastore cmdlet does not currently allow for creating new VVol Datastores and so prolon...

Created 13 Nov 02:06pm by Guest

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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

4 Future Consideration
6 Vote

Enhance New-VM to include ability to attach CD-Rom to SATA Controller

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

Created 11 Oct 06:30pm by Brant Scalan

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5 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 3 Oct 06:07pm by Luc Dekens

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6 Vote

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 04:13pm by Luc Dekens

0 Future Consideration