PowerShell snapin/module ?

[LucD]

Last VMworld Europe I was impressed by the product.

After the presentation several attendees asked about a PowerShell interface to the product.

Can someone from the Orchestrator people perhaps give us an update on this ?

[yorkie]

I don't suppose Carter might know, too? I'll ping my contacts in the UK. Cheers!

[admin]

Hi,

I am sorry that we are unable to comment on this in a public forum nor without an NDA at the moment. Feel free to PM me if you wouldlike to have more discussion around it.

Thanks,

Sia

[admin]

Sia's the only one who could get really specific about that.

[admin]

Are you talking about

- Accessing Powershell from vCO.

or

- Accessing vCO from Powershell.

[LucD]

I'm in fact interested in both.

PS from vCO:

For example using PowerCLI functions in the custom vCO actions, instead of the provided Java functions.

Since we use PowerCLI for our vSphere automation it avoids us learning and using a 2nd language.

And we could reuse part of our existing PowerCLI scripts.

vCO from PS:

Creating, starting and monitoring Tasks from a PS script.

Our vSphere automation is not done from the vSphere client but from a centralised tool (SCOM in our case).

Being able to call Task management from this PS-based environment would avoid "console sprawl" for our admins and operators.