VMware vSphere PowerCLI 11.0 Released

vSphere PowerCLI has a great hand on automation in the vSphere environment and most of the VMware Administrators and Engineers  are using this for make operations very easy .VMware has been continuously improving vSphere PowerCLI capability by development lifecycle with PowerCLI  , and  VMware has released their new version of PowerCLI 11.0 few days before . Let’s check the new features available on  this Version

VMware vSphere PowerCLI 11.0 New Features

New features available on  VMware vSphere PowerCLI 11.0 is to support the new all updates and release of VMware products , find the below following has been features,

• New Security module
• vSphere 6.7 Update 1
• NSX-T 2.3
• Horizon View 7.6
• vCloud Director 9.5
• Host Profiles – new cmdlets for interacting with
• New Storage Module updates
• NSX-T in VMware Cloud on AWS
• Cloud module multiplatform support
• Get-ErrorReport cmdlet has been updated
• PCloud module has been removed
• HA module has been removed

Now we will go through above mentioned new features to find what functionality it bring to PowerCLI 11.0

What is PowerCLI 11.0 New Security Module

The new security module brings more powerful automation features to PowerCLI 11.0 available  new cmdlets include the following

• Get-SecurityInfo
• Get-VTpm
• Get-VTpmCertificate
• Get-VTpmCSR
• New-VTpm
• Remove-VTpm
• Set-VTpm
• Unlock-VM

Also New-VM cmdlet has enhanced functionality with the security module functionality and it includes parameters like KmsCluster, StoragePolicy, SkipHardDisks etc which can be used while creating new virtual machines with PowerCLI .In addition to that  Set-VM, Set-VMHost, Set-HardDisk, and New-HardDisk cmdlets are added.

Host Profile Additions

There are few additions to the VMware.VimAutomation.Core module that will make managing host profiles from PowerCLI

• Get-VMHostProfileUserConfiguration
• Set-VMHostProfileUserConfiguration
• Get-VMHostProfileStorageDeviceConfiguration
• Set-VMHostProfileStorageDeviceConfiguration
• Get-VMHostProfileImageCacheConfiguration
• Set-VMHostProfileImageCacheConfiguration
• Get-VMHostProfileVmPortGroupConfiguration
• Set-VMHostProfileVmPortGroupConfiguration

Storage Module Updates

These new Storage Module updates specifically for VMware vSAN , the updates has predefined time ranges when using Get-VsanStat. In addition  Get-VsanDisk has additional new properites that are returned including capacity, used percentage, and reserved percentage. Following are the  cmdlets have been added to automate vSAN

• Get-VsanObject
• Get-VsanComponent
• Get-VsanEvacuationPlan – provides information regarding bringing a host into maintenance mode and the impact of the operation on the data, movement, etc

Additionally  following modules have been removed

• PCloud module
• HA module

Download now and start using 

Useful Links

• Release Blog post
• Users Guide
• Cmdlet Reference Guide
• Release Notes