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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 06 Jan 21:59 by Guest

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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 prolonge...

Created 13 Nov 14:06 by Guest

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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 18:30 by Brant Scalan

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6 Vote

Improve license reporting through sso

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

Created 07 Sep 16:12 by Chris Chua

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4 Vote

Retrieve VIAccount User-Group-Mapping

Currently there is no way to get VIAccount user by given group. We can export groups 'Get-VIAccount -Domain "..." -Group' or Users 'Get-VIAccount -Domain "..." -User'; But I cannot get a list of users of a specified group.

Created 04 Dec 12:48 by Martin Weber

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5 Vote

Allow -ScriptText parameter for Invoke-VMScript to accept a string longer than 2869 characters

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 ...

Created 09 Aug 15:24 by Michael Harlan

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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 via...

Created 21 Oct 10:54 by Guest

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4 Vote

Fix issue with VimDatastore and VimInventory providers in Visual Studio Code's Integrated Console

In the PowerShell Integrated Console of the Visual Studio Code editor there is an issue when using the VimInventory and VimDatastore providers. A call to New-PSDrive with any of these providers, returns errors like"The specified mount name 'vis' i...

Created 12 Sep 08:51 by Luc Dekens

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4 Vote

Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object

Many cmdlets are sometimes returning this error message: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object This problem has been discussed and a workaround has been found here : https://serverfault.com/questions/654415/powercli-move...

Created 25 Jul 18:40 by Luc FULLENWARTH

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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 09 Nov 15:10 by Markus Struck

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