I stumbled across some interesting news shared by Alan Renouf on Facebook this morning – an R2 release of vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 (Build 1649237). New in R2 per the release notes:
- Access to the vCenter Server SRM public API (Connect-SRMServer and Disconnect-SRMServer cmdlets) – an exciting addition for sure
- Support for adding and removing tags and tag categories found in the next generation vSphere web client
- Configuration and reporting of EVC mode for vSphere clusters
- Management of security policies for the vSS and its portgroups
- New support for MS Windows PowerShell 4.0
- Support for vSphere hosts configured for IPv6
- Added migration priority support for vMotion (VMotionPriority parameter in conjunctionw ith the Move-VM cmdlet)
- Get-Datastore cmdlet
- RelatedObject paremeter extended to accept the Harddisk object
- now allows filtering by cluster
- Enhanced Get-Stat and Get-StatType cmdlets
- Support added for e1000e vNICs
- All values for DiskStorageFormat can be specified during VM cloning operations
- 64-bit mode support for New-OSCustomizationSpec and Set-OSCustomizationSpec cmdlets
- ToolsVersion property added to VMGuest which returns a string
- Get-VirtualSwitch and Get-DVSwitch cmdlets support virtual port groups as a RelatedObject
- Get-VM cmdlet enhanced to retrieve a list of VMs by virtual switch
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 R2 supports vSphere 4.1 through vSphere 5.5 as well as Microsoft Windows PowerShell versions 2.0, 3.0, and new in R2 4.0.
Thank you Alan and thank you VMware!
