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Hello,
I download in my laptop vmware powercli.
VMware-PowerCLI-5.5.0-1931983.exe
The installation working fine and when I launch the "VMware vSphere PowerCLI" nothing append.
I try to open Powershell and launch manually "vim.psc1" and I have this error :
PS C:\Users\User1> WARNING : The following errors occurred when loading console C:\Program Files(x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\vim.psc1 :
Unable to load the snap-in Windows PowerShell VMware.VimAutomation.Core due to the following error : Unable to cast an object of type 'VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Vim4PSSnapIn' to type 'System.Management.Automation.CustomPSSnapIn'.
Unable to load the snap-in Windows PowerShell VMware.VimAutomation.Vds due to the following error : Unable to cast an object of type 'VMware.VimAutomation.Vds.Commands.VdsSnapin' to type 'System.Management.Automation.CustomPSSnapIn'.
Thank you for your help.
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Some questions:
- do you get the PowerCLI prompt when you start via the PowerCLI shortcut ?
- Are the .Net prerequisites installed
- is the execution policy of PowerShell set to RemoteSigned
Blog: lucd.info Twitter: @LucD22 Co-author PowerCLI Reference
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Hello,
Thank you for your reply.
1) no prompt. The window open and close.
2) I have Framework 4.5.1 and Powershell 4
3) I test with Unrestricted and RemoteSigned
Thanks.
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PowerCLI still requires .Net 2, didn't you get a warning for that during the installation ?
See also the Release Notes.
Blog: lucd.info Twitter: @LucD22 Co-author PowerCLI Reference
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No.
I can try to install PowerCLi if you want.
i remember me than at the beginning of install 2 soft installed and after that the install of powercli began.
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I miss in my previous post.
The Framework 2.0 are correctly installed :
NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0
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Ok, so the prereqs should be ok.
When you open a PowerShell prompt and type
Add-PSSnapin -Name VMware.VimAutomation.Core
what happens ?
If you do a
Get-PSSnapin | Select Name
afterwards, is the PowerCLI pssnapin returned ?
Blog: lucd.info Twitter: @LucD22 Co-author PowerCLI Reference
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If I launch this command and I have this error :
Add-PSSnapin :Unable to load the snap-in Windows PowerShell VMware.VimAutomation.Core due to the following error : Unable to cast an object of type 'VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Vim4PSSnapIn' to type 'System.Management.Automation.CustomPSSnapIn'.
At Character Line : 1
+ Add-PSSnapin -Name VMware.VimAutomation.Core
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData : (VMware.VimAutomation.Core:String) [Add-PSSnapin], PSSnapInException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : AddPSSnapInRead,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddPSSnapinCommand
Thanks.
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It looks as if the PowerCLI installation didn't go fine.
As a first course of action I would completely uninstall PowerCLI (and the VMRC and Vix packages PowerCLI installs).
Then reboot the system, and try a fresh install of PowerCLI.
Any difference ?
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OK.
I uninstall PowerCLI, Remote Plugin and VIX.
I reboot.
I launch install file, It start by Remote Plug-In install.
After it install VIX.
After that I have the wizard for PowerCLI 5.5.0.6579.
By default it choose vSphere Power CLI and uncheck "vcloud director power cli"
Install is finish correctly.
And error persist.
I precise I have vmware workstation 10 on my laptop / vsphere client 5.5 and vmware converter standalone.
Thank you.
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I have the same problem on a Windows 8.1 box.
Can anybody please help?
Regards
marius
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For my Windows 8.1 it was the Powershell version.
It needs to be running Powershell version 2.
I created a cmd file with the following:
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -version 2 -psc "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\vim.psc1" -noe -c ". \"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1\""
The shortcut cannot be edited because the "version 2" option takes the string past the 260 character limit.
I also had to go into Task bar properties and increase the number of items in the jump lists to 10.
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Hello,
I try also with version 5.8.0 and it's not fixed.
So I try your fix and it's OK now.
Thank you for your help.