PowerCLI & Workflow

[gamename]

Hi,

I'm trying to convert a powercli script to use workflow (mostly so I can run cloning in parallel).  Will I have to wrap every "get-vm" etc in an "inlinescript {}" definition?

-T

[gamename]

Just to make my point a little clearer, I get this kind of error when calling powercli cmdlets:

Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility\Write-Error : The term 'Get-VM' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name

HTH

[LucD]

That seems to indicate the PowerCLI pssnapin is not loaded.

Did you do a

Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

[wprather]

I suspect LucD is right because each parallel thread in the workflow is it's own powershell session.  You'll likely also need to call connect-viserver again.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

I think it might be possible to reuse the session key, as Clinton described in his Multithreading PowerCLI  post

[thebart]

i think i'm getting close