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42 VOTE

Open source the PowerCLI Documentation (including the Help pages)

Similar to what MSFT has done with PowerShell/PowerShell-Docs opensource all PowerCLI related documentation, including the Help pages.

Created about 2 years ago by Luc Dekens

2 Planned
36 VOTE

Power Actions for HTML5 client

Frankly, I'm surprised I couldn't find this already in the list. I'd like/love to see PowerActions available in the H5 client. There's many things that you can't do in the UI that you can in the API. PowerActions offers the ability to extend the U...

Created about 2 years ago by Mike Foley

0 Planned
15 VOTE

Notes/Description for Maintenance Mode

Would like to add a command line option to provide details when a user puts a host into maintenance mode. We have this option today with shutdown. Customer requested through TAM: Lack of communication internally when a host is put into maintenan...

Created over 1 year ago by Melba Lopez

0 Planned
5 VOTE

Port VMHostHardware to PowerCLI core

I have an OSS tool for documentation and my Mac customers can't run without this cmdlet (and others, but let's start with this one). https://github.com/arielsanchezmora/vDocumentation/issues/45Get-VMHostHardware : Cmdlet Get-VMHostHardware is not ...

Created 7 months ago by Guest

0 Planned
17 VOTE

Introduce support for Update-Help

That would make the Help independent, as far as possible, from the actual PowerCLI releases.Even better would be to open-source the Help files :-)

Created about 2 years ago by Luc Dekens

2 Planned
16 VOTE

The credential store only works with the Connect-VIServer cmdlet. I would like it to work with the other Connect-* cmdlets as well.

This is very useful if you run scripts not only against vSphere but also for example against vCloud Director. Specialy when you run the script as a scheduled task.

Created over 2 years ago by Robert van den Nieuwendijk

2 Planned
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The current warning text reads: "WARNING: Parameter 'OSCustomizationSpec' is obsolete.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 'OSCus...

Created 7 months ago by Joel Newton

1 Planned
3 VOTE

Add OutputType to all PowerCLI cmdlets (where it makes sense)

There still seem to be some VMware PowerCLI cmdlets that do not have the OutputType defined.As a drawback that results in not being able to use intellisense in the ISE or VSC in constructs like thisConnect-CisServer -Server server.domain | %{$_.Wh...

Created 6 months ago by Luc Dekens

0 Planned
10 VOTE

Correlate Guest Disk to VMDK

When it comes time to re-size a disk, if multiple disks in the guest share the same size there is no indication which disk in the VMware configuration needs to be changed. I would want to see it work like a cmdlet or a view that matches them up a...

Created almost 2 years ago by Guest

1 Planned
11 VOTE

Make Datastores/Cluster/Hosts as fast as Get-VM

I work in a large environment and these are not fast, would be great to get the same as Get-VM

Created about 2 years ago by Jake Robinson

1 Planned