VMware PowerCLI

The Best User Interface for your VMware Datacenter!

1 Vote

New cmdlet to create scheduled vCenter Backup

Today it's only possible to create instantaneously Backup from vCenter. It would be very usefull to manage the scheduled Backup inside the vCenter via PowerCLI.

Created 8 Nov 10:22am by Stephan Koch

0 Looking for Feedback
1 Vote

New-HardDisk: Add ability to define UnitID, disable CBT and enable Multi-writer

We need the ability to add shared disks to clustered VMs using vvols. The New-HardDisk doesn't allow defining the UnitID, nor disabling CBT, and enabling the Multi-writer setting, so we have to do this in two API calls. The first is to use New-Har...

Created 28 Oct 11:28am by Guest

0 Looking for Feedback
1 Vote

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

1 Looking for Feedback
2 Vote

Add support to remediate a single host with the cluster based image update

Now its only possible to remediate the whole cluster but not a single hosts over powerCLI. I can update a single host over the gui without problems, that should also be possible over powerCLI.

Created 10 Oct 02:45pm by Guest

2 Already exists
1 Vote

Get-VIApplianceService return VS service-control --status

Everything is in the title, why does the Get-VIApplianceService cmdlet not return the same information as "service-control --status" from vCSA? In my opinion, the actual cmdlet Get-VIApplianceService don't seem to relevant.

Created 21 Jul 03:57pm by Adil OSMAN

5 Looking for Feedback
1 Vote

Support for gMSA

Add support to run PowerCLI scripts using managed service accounts. This allows for non-interactive executions of PowerCLI scripts.

Created 20 Jul 05:34am by Guest

1 Looking for Feedback
1 Vote

Merge Connect-* configuration commands for photon appliances

Hi All, To setup a vcenter via powercli , we need to : Set up ssh, connect via SSH with New-SShSession, join the machine via shell: /opt/likewise/bin/domainjoin-cli join , use VMware.vSphere.SsoAdmin & Connect-SsoAdminServer for the local SSO ...

Created 1 Jun 10:14am by Alain Tanguy

0 Looking for Feedback
1 Vote

Set-VIRole -add a description Parameter

https://developer.vmware.com/docs/powercli/latest/vmware.vimautomation.core/commands/set-virole/ the 'Description' parameter is missing from the parameter list but is present in Get-virole .

Created 1 Jun 09:55am by Alain Tanguy

0 Looking for Feedback
1 Vote

Import-VApp option to skip client-side OVA signature check

Forcing the client side to have the same certificate trust chain as the server places undue burden to have the two in sync. The clients are many, untrusted and ephemeral, there should be no need to force their upkeep if the check on the VC/ESX can...

Created 3 May 02:14pm by Guest

2 Looking for Feedback
0 Vote

PowerCLI to understand SRM placeholder VM information

Get VM PowerCLI command prints the information about the 2 VMs - production VM and SRM placeholder VM on the secondary site. Is there a way to show in this output that one of the VMs is the placeholder? Right now we can only determine this by seei...

Created 12 Apr 10:22am by Guest

1 Looking for Feedback