connect-viserver error_powercli

[jvm2016]

Hi Luc ,

I am trying to connect to one ip address of vcenter (no dns record made for that ip)and gets following error.

[LucD]

One of the things you might check is the Proxy settings for PowerCLI?

Do a Get-PowerCLIConfiguration​ and perhaps try setting the ProxyPolicy to No Proxy.

Unless of course there is a proxy between your station and the vCenter.

[jvm2016]

proxy set to no proxy but still same error .

and  webclient also does not connect .

[LucD]

Do you have proxy settings on the machine from where you do the Connect-VIServer and start the browser with the Web CLient?

If yes, try removing those.

[jvm2016]

if i connect to esxi host on which this vcenter is running .

store vcenter vm in variable .

and try to find it properties and methods will it know its a vcenter vm and can give license info????

[LucD]

I don't think that will work

[jvm2016]

no proxy is configred .also i can connect to esxi host .

[LucD]

What does Get-PowerCLIConfiguration show?

[jvm2016]

[LucD]

There should be 3 lines, for the 3 scopes

[jvm2016]

nothing else i see there .this is what get-powercliconfiguration displayed.

[LucD]

Strange, normally you should see something like this

Are you sure that you have a clean, up-to-date PowerCLI installation?

Do this

Get-Module -Name VMware* -ListAvailable | select Name,Version

And can you also run this

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product |

where{$_.Name -match 'VMware'} | Select Name,Version,Caption

[jvm2016]

I am checking this .Thanks.

[jvm2016]

Modules are there but I m not able to run power cli commands from power shell.

adding ps snapin

[LucD]

Do you still have PSSnapin, that means you have a rather old version of PowerCLI.

What does Get-PowerCLIVersion say?

I would advise to upgrade.

See Welcome PowerCLI to the PowerShell Gallery – Install Process Updates

[jvm2016]

Actually import-module as it is powercli 6.5.

[LucD]

That's also an older version.

Can you show the output of the snippets I gave earlier?

[jvm2016]

Attached.

[LucD · Accepted solution]

That's an old version, I would strongly suggest to upgrade.

If you are worried about compatibility, check the matrix.

[jvm2016]

Thanks I am going to upgrade to 10.11.did not notice that new release came in April.