VMware PowerCLI

Would be helpful to source ova/ovf from content library. Current pain point w/ VMC instances. (Azure/AWS and otherwise)

Request: Add Version and Content Version to returned data of Get-ContentLibraryItem cmdlet (or via extension data).Background: Working with New/Set-ContentLibraryItem and needing to update Description field with updated template info. If submitte...

When the last VM in a VMgroup is deleted from the vCenter inventory, it's no longer possible to add a new VM to the group with set-DrsClusterGroup. Adding VMs is only possible if minimal 1 VM is already part of the group. Although it is possible ...

The New-VIPermission cmdlet fails when the Entity is a VSS portgroup.With the call to the API method SetEntityPermissions it works.Please update the New-VIPermission cmdlet.

Unfortunately the new PSv7 feature Foreach -Parallel does not work with PowerCLI.Make it so!

PowerShell has a nice feature for comment-based help.The .Link keyword can contain a reference to an online help page.This feature was used by most PowerCLI modules up to and including PowerCLI version 10.0.0.7895300.Since then this link has not b...

The VMware.PowerCLI module undoubtedly serves a purpose, in that it allows one to update all PowerCLI modules by just doingUpdate-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLIBut there are a number of side-effects that are quite annoying and unique to the PowerCLI...

The Get-Metric returns metric information, but it only shows the metric's Label, not the Key.While on the Get-Stat cmdlet the Stat parameter expects the Key.An example:On Get-Metric one has to useGet-Metric -MetricGroup 'CPU' -Name 'Core Utilizati...

While the Get-Metric cmdlet could potentially be very useful, at the moment it is imho useless.The cmdlet is apparently missing the Rollup parameter.For example, when one doesGet-Metric -MetricGroup 'CPU' -Name 'usage' 4 objects are returned. I ...

VMware PowerCLI cmdlets are way more verbose than regular PowerShell cmdlets.A demonstration function Get-Test{ [cmdletbinding()] param() Write-Verbose "In function" Get-VM | Out-Null Get-Process | Out-Null}Get-Test -Verbose This produces the fo...