VMware PowerCLI

To enhance the newly added set of hostprofile cmdlets it would be great to have cmdlets to Get and Set the VMKernel Port settings of a hostprofile, like the way you introcuded it with VMPortgroups. So it would be possible to re-use (clone) a exis...

To enhance the newly added set of hostprofile cmdlets it would be great to have cmdlets to Get and Set the vSAN configuration of a hostprofile. This would make it possible to re-use a hostprofile from another hostprofile to a new created vSAN clu...

Sometimes we end up having to use Powercli just to end up using other CLI via powercli itself (for example the ESX CLI). It would be very useful to have powercli have access to see what those options and commands are available, rather than consta...

1. How to migrate the VM's one cluster to another cluster without out shutdown along with data store and snapshots using the Power shell script of power cli 2.Customised Bulk Creation of VMs using the CSV(in file we need to specify vCPUs, Memor...

Sometimes it happens that the System Event Log (SEL) from an ESXi gets full. So the administrator have to log into the webclient to reset the SEL in the Hardware Status tab. The only alternative way is to use a SSH session to esxi and use this c...

RC4 has been deemed insecure for years. Connect-viserver will not pass thru authentication via SSPI without RC4_HMAC_MD5 being enabled. DOD STIG requirements for Windows 2016 requires that this be turned off. Please fix this.

The introduction of the VMware Configuration Maximums webpage (https://configmax.vmware.com) is a huge improvement over the previous 30+ pages documents.And it demonstrates that the numbers are available in a query-able format.It would be really h...

When you export (e.g. Export-Clixml, or ConvertTo-Json | Set-Content, etc) an OvfConfiguration object, and later import it (e.g. Import-Clixml, or Get-Content | ConvertFrom-Json), the resulting imported object is a Deserialized.VMware.Vim....OvfCo...

There are a number of general interest pages related to VMware PowerCLI on the VMware{code} site, like the Cmdlet Reference, the Compatibility matrix, the Change log...Currently these links all include a version-related elements in the URI, meanin...

When you use the RunAsync switch, several cmdlets end up being executed as a Client Side Task (CST).This is a nice feature, but the drawback is the fact that the Task object returned by a CST is not compatible with the Task object returned by a Se...