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4 Vote

Improve the wording of the warning re usage of the OSCustomizationSpec parameter.

The current warning text reads: "WARNING: Parameter 'OSCustomizationSpec' is obsolete. This parameter no longer accepts multiple values." However, the parameter is not obsolete. The correct text for this warning is: "WARNING: Parameter 'OSCustomi...

Created 22 Apr 09:56pm by Joel Newton

1 Planned
2 Vote

Add the abilitiy to skip cert checks with invoke-vmscript

Some times a virtual machine won't have a valid cert, one case is virtual desktops, and invoke-vmscript fails because of the invalid cerificate

Created 12 Apr 07:56pm by Guest

0 Looking for Feedback
5 Vote

Fix the DefaultVIServer and DefaultVIServers variable names

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)...

Created 8 Apr 02:51pm by Luc Dekens

0 Future Consideration
3 Vote

Management of VM HardDisks in vCD

Currently there is no Cmdlet to manage the harddisks of a CIVM that I'm aware of. I did find a blogpost that lists a function go GET the disk size, but not change it. VMware PowerCLI Blog: Retrieving vCloud Director VM Hard Disk size Basically it...

Created 5 Apr 11:41am by Guest

3 Looking for Feedback
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 Guest

0 Looking for Feedback
3 Vote

vSphere Integrated Containers support

Right now everything is driven via UI or DockerCLI. Both are not ideal for automation and integration with my other tool sets. lots of functionality possibilities! I’d probably start with: connect-VicAppliance Get-VicProject Get-VicApplication Get...

Created 3 Apr 08:46pm by Justin Sider

0 Looking for Feedback
4 Vote

Code Capture support for scripts

In the current Code Capture version we can only "capture" actions in the Web Client.In the Onyx tool we also had an option to run a script and capture that code. Some of the advantages of such a feature would be:- "see" what code is behind a cmdle...

Created 3 Apr 11:28am by Luc Dekens

0 Will not implement
1 Vote

Do a bug fix release at regular intervals

While we applaud your 4-6 new builds/year, it might be interesting to schedule a build that only does bug fixes.It would allow effort and resources to be temporarily directed at some of the well-know and old(-ish) bugs. Other SW vendors have done ...

Created 3 Apr 11:24am by Luc Dekens

0 Looking for Feedback
1 Vote

Fix the noun prefix issue

Vmwares noun prefixes conflict with hyper-v, can you please fix that?

Created 14 Mar 03:18pm by Guest

5 Will not implement
2 Vote

Horizon Cloud (IBM or Azure) Support

Currently there is no way that I'm aware of to manage Horizon Cloud via CLI. I think it would make sense to build this functionality into PowerCLI if possible. Today we can automate certain tasks via PowerCLI on-prem but currently have no way of a...

Created 12 Mar 04:33pm by Guest

1 Looking for Feedback