Any thoughts on if VMware will release a powershell-based CloudClient?

[Mackopes]

CloudClient looks pretty nice and has a lot of potential.

Obviously it is possible to wrap this in PowerShell, but curious if VMware has any plans/thoughts around releasing a native PowerShell CloudClient Module (with proper PowerShell cmdlets) as working with it would be much more seamless. (ala PowerCLI)

AK

[adamthepatterso]

I'm interested in this also.  Although, I think I'm wondering more generally if CloudClient is going to be matured beyond the current vision / release, regardless of whether it's a java tool or native <insert language here>.  It feels more like a fling than a GA product tool to me.  Perhaps the expectation is to leverage the REST API directly via whatever tooling/code you want - I guess this is fine now that the v6.2 API seems to be mature enough.

[alanrenouf]

Mackopes wrote:

CloudClient looks pretty nice and has a lot of potential.

Obviously it is possible to wrap this in PowerShell, but curious if VMware has any plans/thoughts around releasing a native PowerShell CloudClient Module (with proper PowerShell cmdlets) as working with it would be much more seamless. (ala PowerCLI)

AK

PowerCLI is very customer led so we are always interested in providing access to what is needed from VMware, I can not obvioulsy commit to what we will be providing in the future but I would be interested in the kind of areas you would like to use PowerCLI for vRA (vCAC) for, is this mainly for admin and configuration or more from the end user side of things?

Thanks for the interest.

Alan Renouf

PowerCLI PM

[Mackopes]

Hi Alan!

Thanks for the reply!

As usual, the answer would be both, but from a prioritization perspective, the end-user perspective (e.g. the Tenant side) would be ideal.

We have a lot of internal teams that use PowerShell exclusively for lots of automation (SQL Teams, Exchange Teams, Sharepoint Teams, IIS Administration teams etc).

They are going very deep into utilizing stuff like PowerShell DSC for config.

We are starting to look at using vRAC as an option to give them each their own playgrounds for spinning stuff up and down (some of them still are using Lab Manager which we need to get off of).

Having even a basic PowerCLI-based vRAC module to spin up/spin down/snapshot etc would be a great step in the right direction.

Thanks!

Aaron