VMware releases vSphere powerCLI 5.5 R2

June 11, 2013

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There was some new release of vSphere PowerCLI 5.5(Build 1649237) wich was shared by Alan Renouf on facebook .

The new R2 has the following features 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-related objectparameter extended to accept the harddisk object and also 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.

 

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