Ever had a problem to solve but not sure how to proceed? This little function might help you out, it searches through all available PowerShell commands looking for a keyword you specify, and will search the full help text, including the examples.
For example, let’s say that in PowerCLI you’re trying to set up or diagnose VMotion, but not sure what cmdlets might help. All you’ve got to do is load this function, then run Search-Help vmotion, which will return this list.
CommandType Name Definition
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Cmdlet Move-VM Move-VM [[-VM] <VirtualMachi…
Cmdlet New-Cluster New-Cluster [-Name] <String>…
Cmdlet New-VMHostNetworkAdapter New-VMHostNetworkAdapter [[-…
Cmdlet Set-Cluster Set-Cluster [[-Cluster] <Clu…
Cmdlet Set-VMHost Set-VMHost [[-State] <Nullab…
Cmdlet Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter -Ph…
You can then run help on any of the results to drill down further.
