VMworld: PowerCLI What’s New

Session: SER2529BU Alan Renouf

PowerCLI Overview
-623 cmdlets and counting
-PowerCLI is 10 years old
-Name change – VMware PowerCLI
-Move-VM now includes cross vCenter vMotion
-Automate everything with VSAN
-Independent disk management cmdlets – new-vdisk, get-vdisk, copy-vdisk, move-vdisk
-VVOL replication cmdlets
-New Horizon View module
-SPBM cmdlets
-More inventory parameters
-DRS cluster groups and VM/host rule cmdlets

Install: install-module VMware.PowerCLI

Release Frequency
-Less features, but more often
-Less wait on bug fixes
-Focused on your input

PowerCLI 6.5.2
-New ‘inventoryLocation’ parameter – move-vm, import-vapp, new-vapp
-Mount a content library ISO with new-CDDrive
-Fixes and enhancements

Multiplatform Fling
-Photon OS, Mac OS, Linux, Docker

VMware Cloud on AWS?
-Works exactly the same as on-site vCenter

Endless Possibilities
-Content library – more cmdlets to come
-Parameter auto-complete
-vSphere REST API high-level cmdlets
-Powershell DSC (desired state config) – Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Saltstack
-New vSphere Client and Rest API support for Onyx (automated code generator)
-PowerCLI multiplatform 6.0

Community Projects
(FREE) OpBot – Connects vCenter to slack. Download: http://try.opvizor.com/opbot
(NEW!!) PowerCLI Feature request page: https://vmwa.re/powercli

 

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