VMware PowerCLI

The Best User Interface for your VMware Datacenter!

77 Vote

Open Source PowerCLI

Open Source PowerCLI in the same way that PowerShell has been open sourced, i think the benefits are clear from what we have seen with PowerShell. Would be great to see the source code in a github repo where the community can contribute.

Created 20 Aug 17:01 by Guest

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54 Vote

Ability to Automate and Manage vSphere Global Permissions

Please see http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2017/03/automating-vsphere-global-permissions-with-powercli.html for more information :)

Created 04 Sep 21:23 by Deleted User

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29 Vote

Cmdlets to create/edit Host Profile content

Add cmdlets to manipulate the content of Host Profiles.There is no simple, nor documented way to add/edit content of Host Profiles

Created 27 Sep 21:17 by Luc Dekens

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25 Vote

Official vRA Module

I have been using the community-based PowervRA module lately to import and export vRA content, and the scriptability for this is much better than the current cloud client. It would be awesome to see VMware officially support or develop the PowervR...

Created 20 Aug 14:57 by Guest

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28 Vote

Enhanced Move-VM cmdlet to support compute-only Cross vCenter vMotion

Today, there is a limitation with the Move-VM cmdlet for a compute-only Cross vCenter vMotion where VMDKs stored across different datastores will actually be relocated to a single datastore after performing the migration. It is possible to overrid...

Created 26 Oct 15:39 by William Lam

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22 Vote

Add Import-Patch cmdlet (VUM)

Currently there is no documented way to import patches to the Update Manager. If you host more than one vCenter (imagine over 30) and you are not able to run the VUM Download Service it´s a waste of time to manually upload the patches on each vCen...

Created 09 Aug 17:58 by Guest

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22 Vote

Support natural PowerShell interactive behavior (tab-completion of possible values based on inventory items in the environment, contributing to discoverability): add tab-completion support to parameter values

PowerShell provides the ability to tab-complete parameter values via argument completers. For example: Get-Process -Name <tab> Get-Service -DisplayName <tab> Get-Command -Module VMwar<tab> Get-Variable -Name r<tab> ...

Created 26 Oct 14:57 by Matt Boren

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22 Vote

PSC and VCSA administration and patching

Being able to manage the configuration of the PSC and VCSA would allow management of joining both the Active Directory, managing the certificate infrastructure including replacing the default certificates with a either enterprise or third party ce...

Created 19 Oct 18:06 by Iain Worsfold

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12 Vote

Support for Standalone ESXi Host for OVF cmdlets: Get-OvfConfiguration / Import-VApp

Importing an OVF/OVA can be deployed to either a vCenter Server and/or Standalone ESXi endpoint. Today, both Get-OvfConfiguration / Import-VApp assumes vCenter Server connection but this should not be a constraint or limitation as OVF/OVA import s...

Created 03 Nov 16:19 by William Lam

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17 Vote

Quick boot with restart-vmhost

ESXi 6.7 added support for Quick Boot with VUM. It would be great to have this added into restart-vmhost!

Created 04 Feb 18:56 by Brian Parks

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