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PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2 Now Available

PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2 has now been released and can be downloaded here.  As always you will find some great new features, bug fixes and enhancements which make PowerCLI even better than before… I know its hard to believe but its true.

VDS Cmdlets

PowerCLI SnapinsWhenever I would ask the question at VMUG’s or VMWorld, “What would you like to see next from PowerCLI” I would always get the same answer “Support for Virtual Distributed Switches!”.

Previously there has been a fling available and also some work created by community member “Luc Dekens” to use VDS, this was a great start but in some cases was not a sustainable solution as it was either not supported or more complicated to maintain or use.

I am now pleased to tell you that PowerCLI has a new snapin, this snapin is called VMware.VimAutomation.VDS and is for managing Virtual Distributed Switches.

Introduced are 14 new cmdlets which will allow you to perform actions against your VDS configuration, we can use the Get-VdsCommand cmdlet to list the new cmdlets.

An overview of these are below:

Cmdlet Name Cmdlet description
Add-VDSwitchPhysicalNetworkAdapter This cmdlet adds host physical network adapters to a distributed switch.
Add-VDSwitchVMHost This cmdlet adds hosts to the specified distributed switch.
Export-VDPortGroup This cmdlet exports the configuration of a specified distributed port group to a specified .zip file.
Export-VDSwitch This cmdlet exports the configuration of a specified vSphere distributed switch to a .zip file.
Get-VDPortgroup This cmdlet retrieves distributed port groups.
Get-VDSwitch This cmdlet retrieves vSphere distributed switches.
New-VDPortgroup This cmdlet creates distributed port groups.
New-VDSwitch This cmdlet creates vSphere distributed switches.
Remove-VDPortGroup This cmdlet removes distributed port groups.
Remove-VDSwitch This cmdlet removes vSphere distributed switches.
Remove-VDSwitchPhysicalNetworkAdapter This cmdlet removes host physical network adapters from the distributed switches they are connected to.
Remove-VDSwitchVMHost This cmdlet removes hosts from the specified distributed switches.
Set-VDPortgroup This cmdlet modifies the configuration of distributed port groups.
Set-VDSwitch This cmdlet modifies the configuration of vSphere distributed switches.

Remember each of these cmdlets has help built in, to access the help including examples of how you might use these cmdlets use the following:

Get-Help cmdletname –full

PowerShell v3 Support

As well as the new cmdlets for working with Distributed switches and all the other great enhancements in PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2 we made sure we listened to our customers and with the release of PowerShell version 3 it seams that a lot of people are already making use or planning to install PowerShell v3.

You will be happy to know that PowerCLI now supports PowerShell v3, this not only gives you support from VMware but also we are now able to take advantage of some of the great enhancements which PowerShell v3 brings.

Some PowerShell v3 examples…

Simplified Syntax… Making PowerShell and therefore PowerCLI easier to read and quicker to type we can use simplified syntax to give us even more English like statements, before we would have needed to use the {} brackets to compare a property, now we are able to type it the same way we would think it…

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The above simple example shows all virtual machines which are powered on.

vCloud Director 5.1 Support

With PowerCLI 5.1 R2 we have also added support for vCloud Director 5.1, you can now automate the latest version of vCloud director using both PowerCLI and PowerCLI for tenants in a vCloud Director 5.1 environment.

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Alan Renouf

Alan Renouf is a Product Line Manager at VMware focusing on API's, SDK's and CLI's, He is responsible for providing the architects and operators of private and public cloud infrastructure…

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  3. Definitely been waiting for this, so great to see these builtin vDS (or dVS) cmdlets!

    This just made me wonder a bit while browsing the release notes:
    http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/PowerCLI51R2/powercli51r2-releasenotes.html

    But vCenter 5.1.0b is not on the official list of “supported VMware environments”? I know 5.1.0b only tackled SSO issues (as stated in the release notes), so I thought for a release 2 months later like this, it shouldn’t be excluded while explicitly listing 5.1.0a too.

    Speaking of SSO, I suppose a snapin for managing SSO via Powershell would be nice too.

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    1. Thanks for the comment, whilst we have not specifically tested against 5.1.0b we haven’t had bugs caused by VC patch release fixes, so I don’t expect any issues.

      I would be interested in the kind of things you would like to see from an SSO snapin.

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  13. Thanks for the comment, whilst we have not specifically tested against 5.1.0b we haven’t had bugs caused by VC patch release fixes, so I don’t expect any issues.

    I would be interested in the kind of things you would like to see from an SSO snapin.

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  14. But vCenter 5.1.0b is not on the official list of “supported VMware environments”? I know 5.1.0b only tackled SSO issues (as stated in the release notes), so I thought for a release 2 months later like this, it shouldn’t be excluded while explicitly listing 5.1.0a too.

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