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PowerCLI 11.1.0

PowerCLI 11.1.0 – More on Linux Side

Constantin Ghioc 3 Comments

During the last few days of December 2018, VMware released the 6th PowerCLI version of the year: PowerCLI 11.1.0. The coolest new features move around Site Recovery Manager:

  • Support for SRM module in MacOS and Linux
  • Support for Site Recovery Manager 8.1 API features
  • VMware.VimAutomation.Storage module received updates on 2 cmdlets: Get-VsanDisk and Start-SpbmReplicationTestFailover

There is nothing new on the install / update routines for Windows, so if you need guidance you can take a look at one of my previous article: VMware PowerCLI 10.1.0.

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PowerCLI 10.1.0

VMware PowerCLI 10.1.0

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VMware released a new PowerCLI version, version 10.1.0. I will cover in this article the improvements brought by PowerCLI 10.1.0, the installation process on Windows and the update procedure on both Windows and Linux.

PowerCLI 10.1.0 Changes

New features:

  • New module: VMware.Vim provides vSphere API bindings, allowing access to the latest features available in the VMware Cloud on AWS.
  • New cmdlets: Set-ScriptBundleAssociation and Remove-ScriptBundle added to the VMware.DeployAutomation module. They provide the ability to work with script bundles modification.

Updates:

  • NSX-T module has been updated to support the new API features in VMware NSX-T 2.1.
  • VMware PowerCLI has been updated to support the new API features in VMware vSphere 6.7.
  • Instead of producing a warning when connecting to resources using invalid or self-signed certificates, PowerCLI now produces an error.
  • The Import-VApp cmdlet has been updated to support SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash algorithms.
  • The Version parameter of the New-VM and Set-VM cmdlets has been deprecated and replaced by the HardwareVersion parameter that accepts string input.
  • The Version property of the VirtualMachine object has been deprecated and replaced by the HardwareVersion property.

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PowerCLI 10.0.0 Linux Error in VMware.VimAutomation.Srm Module

Constantin Ghioc 2 Comments

VMware released recently version 10.0.0 of PowerCLI. One of the major “selling” points for PowerCLI 10.0.0 is the way it works exactly the same regardless of the platform: Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. As a result, immediately after I updated my Windows installation to 10.0.0, I proceeded to install a Linux version of PowerCLI.

I will document in this article how to install PowerShell Core 6.0.1 on Linux and how to install PowerCLI 10.0.0. I will then write about the error I met (“Import-Module : VMware.VimAutomation.Srm module is not currently supported on the Core edition of PowerShell”) and how I solved it. Update 5 May 2018: VMware released a new version 10.1.0, same error is present.

First stop was “Compatibility Matrixes for VMware PowerCLI 10.0.0”. The only supported Linux OS is Ubuntu 16.04. I then installed a VM running this Ubuntu version. I then followed the Microsoft provided instructions to install PowerShell Core 6.0.1. (On a related note, I ran PowerCLI 10.0.0 on CentOS 7 without other issues – except of course for the modules errors).

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New Release – VMware PowerCLI 10.0.0

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PowerCLI 6.5.4 is dead, welcome PowerCLI 10.0.0 🙂  VMware released few days ago the latest version, marked with a huge jump in numbering, moving straight from 6 to 10. This version marks also the promote of the former Fling PowerCLI Core into the main PowerCLI product. Now we have same product running multiplatform: Windows, Linux, and MacOS. This makes things simpler. How do you install PowerCLI on Windows? That’s “Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI”. How about Linux? “That’s “Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI”. MacOS? You got this, it’s the same.

PowerCLI 10.0.0 consists of the following modules:

  • VMware.DeployAutomation
  • VMware.ImageBuilder
  • VMware.PowerCLI
  • VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core
  • VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud
  • VMware.VimAutomation.Common
  • VMware.VimAutomation.Core
  • VMware.VimAutomation.HA
  • VMware.VimAutomation.HorizonView
  • VMware.VimAutomation.License
  • VMware.VimAutomation.Nsxt
  • VMware.VimAutomation.PCloud
  • VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk
  • VMware.VimAutomation.Srm
  • VMware.VimAutomation.Storage
  • VMware.VimAutomation.StorageUtility
  • VMware.VimAutomation.Vds
  • VMware.VimAutomation.Vmc
  • VMware.VimAutomation.vROps
  • VMware.VumAutomation

Not all these modules are supported on PowerShell Core, generating an error when trying to launch on Linux, but I will detail this in a future article. [Update 05 March 2018: The article is here: PowerCLI 10.0.0 Linux Error in VMware.VimAutomation.Srm Module. The mentioned error: “Import-Module : VMware.VimAutomation.Srm module is not currently supported on the Core edition of PowerShell”.]

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