VMware Aria Automation Orchstrator API Authentication
I was looking into how to run a workflow from PowerShell, and found the documentation a little confusing if you are using VMware vCenter SSO authentication. In the documentation for VMware vCenter documentation looks like this. There are little or no documentation for how to create a “holder-of-key (HoK) token)” i found 1 community thread…
VMware PowerCLI 13 Released
VMware has released PowerCLI 13. PowerCLI 13 is fully Multi-platform, the last 2 modules – ImageBuilder and AutoDeploy – that only work on Windows has been ported to new modules that can run on any supported platform. the ImageBuild requires Python, as a prerequisite to run, and some python modules (six, psutil, lxml, pyopenssl). What’s new: If…
VMware PowerCLI 12.1 released
VMware has released PowerCLI 12.1. This version introduces new capabilities for VMC and vLCM. there are also other enhancement and new features. See the release notes here. See the VMware PowerCLI blog abount the new capabilities for VMC here. See the VMware PowerCLI blot about the vLCM enhancements here.
VMware PowerCLI 11.5 Released
VMware has released PowerCLI 11.5. What’s new: Added cmdlets for Content Library management Added cmdlets for vCenter alarm management Added cmdlets for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC management Updated Get-*Service output Updated New-VM parameters for networking Updated performance for Tag based operations Updated properties of Virtual Machine object Updated support for Horizon 7.10.0 Updated support…
VMware PowerCLI 11.3.0 Released
VMware has released PowerCLI 11.3.0. What’s new: Added 22 new cmdlets for HCX and SPBM management Added support for vSphere 6.7 Update 2 to the VMware.VIM module Added support for opaque networks to the Get-VirtualNetwork cmdlet Added support for the creation of additional network adapter types Added support for the high-level promotion of instant clones…
PowerShell Command History
This is a little outside what I normally is writing about, but I think this is an important message for those there are using PowerShell, this also includes VMware PowerCLI, and other PowerShell extensions. PowerShell v5 (included in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016) by default saves the last 4096 command used in Powershell, including any username/password,…