So the add-pssnapin takes a while ?

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Alan Renouf

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I noticed same behavior..powershell opens in a flash, and it takes about a minute to load vmware snapin..tried ngen fix, but of no use

Get-PSSnapin -r vmware* | Add-PSSnapin

Same problem here, some systems work without any problem and others are extremely slow.

On systems with the problem, PowerShell itself starts in a blink of an eye, but it takes about 5 minutes to add the snapin (while the system seems to be doing nothing). On one ore two systems it helped when I removed PowerCLI and PowerShell, then upgraded .NetFramework, then installed PowerShell v2 and PowerCLI 4 U1. But on the citrix farm, where I realy need it, nothing seems to help.

I've asked the dev and QA teams to chime in and give any advice they have, so we'll see what their input is.

ISTR a back in the days of 1.0 there was a slow startup on 64 bit unless you had installed .NET 2 SP1. I don't know if that still applies, which is why I asked the team to have a look.

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Carter Shanklin

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Disable "Check for publisher's certificate revocation" in Internet Explorer. This might speed up PowerCLI setup and startup if the machine does not have Internet access.

Thank you for the feedback. I hope Andrey reads this. The problem also exists in many other products, for example some Citrix consoles and DataCore SANmelody.