Hi all,
First, I apologize if this has been asked and answered. I don't have much experience with PowerCLI, although I have used Powershell in general for quite some time. I checked around the forum and the internet and could not find an answer. I am trying to use PowerCLI with Horizon View 2006 on a Windows 2019 server. When I first tried to use it, I got a message that I needed a newer version of Powershell. So I installed Powershell 7 since it is the latest and greatest..
If I try to import the module with "Import-Module VMware.Hv.Helper" I get: "Exception: VMware.VimAutomation.HorizonView module is not currently supported on the Core edition of PowerShell." So I try " Import-Module VMware.Hv.Helper -UseWindowsPowerShell" and it imports. Then I try to use the command "Get-HVMachine" and I get "Write-Error: Could not retrieve ViewApi services from connection object".
AFAIK, Powershell 7 is only Core edition, and trying to use the -UseWindowsPowershell to import the module kicks it back to Powershell 5. So it doesn't work with the older version, and it doesn't work with the newer version.
I contacted VMWare support. They said I had to contact the SDK team, which apparently is an extra cost, just to find out what I needed to get the commands to execute. My next step is to try Powershell 6. I believe it has a core and a non-core edition. If that works, great, until version 6 gets too old.
If anyone has any thoughts or insight on this, it would be much appreciated. For all I know, maybe I'm just barking up the wrong tree. I'm just trying to run a simple script to see if provisioning is enabled. I just want the tool that VMWare provides to work.
Thanks
