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vSphere API Access Comparison – Lightboard Style

A question keeps coming up more and more often around accessing the vSphere API with PowerCLI. The conversation is normally centered around when to use Get-View versus when referencing an object’s ExtensionData property should be used.

This provided a great opportunity to create a lightboard video to highlight the different methods:

To answer the actual question though, the choice is yours. You get access to the same information available by the vSphere API either way!