Automate & Manage

VCF PowerCLI

PowerCLI is the tool millions of customers around the world use to manage and automate their VMware environments. Discover what you can achieve with PowerCLI today. 
# To install VCF PowerCLI just open a PowerShell console and run the command below:

Install-Module -Name VCF.PowerCLI

🚀 Introducing VCF PowerCLI 9.1.1!

VCF PowerCLI 9.1.1 delivers a more secure, resilient, and hardened automation platform across VMware Cloud Foundation. Built to address evolving threat landscapes and modern AI agent environments, this release prioritizes strict security compliance, upgraded core dependencies, and enhanced diagnostic visibility for mission-critical pipelines.

✅ Next-Gen Python Support: Image Builder officially supports Python 3.14, enabling strict compliance environments to patch and update safely.
✅ Hardened Platform Security: Updated baseline requirements to PowerShell Core 7.0.13+ and resolved connection failures with updated certificate checksum algorithms for secure console access.
✅ Smarter Diagnostics: Upgraded error handling in Content Library cmdlets to surface exact server-side failures and precise SSL thumbprint mismatch diagnostics during subscription sync.
✅ Improved Script Resilience: Resolved MAC address validation exceptions (New-NetworkAdapter) to ensure smooth, reliable automation execution.

Fortify your security, improve execution resilience, and streamline diagnostics with VCF PowerCLI 9.1.1.

📥 Upgrade today to safeguard and elevate your VCF automation journey!

VCF PowerCLI

VCF PowerCLI is the tool millions of customers around the world use to manage and automate their VMware environments. Discover what you can achieve with PowerCLI today.
  • Connect to any Environement
    VCF PowerCLI consists of multiple modules that you can install and use according to your needs and environments. Usually modules correspond to a VMware product.
  • Deploy, Automate & Scale

    VCF PowerCLI enables you to provision resources, storage, memory, networking stack, datastores & clusters.

  • Monitor & Manage your Environment

    VCF PowerCLI enables you to get easy access to your inventory to get a sense of your environment, monitor and manage it efficiently.

     

VCF PowerCLI CMDLET References by VCF Components

VMware vSphere and vSAN

Provides cmdlets for automated administration of the vSphere environment.

VMware Cloud Director

Provides cmdlets for automating vCloud Director features.

VMware Site Recovery Manager

Provides cmdlets for managing VMware Site Recovery Manager features.

VMware Cloud Services

Provides cmdlets for managing VMware Cloud Services.

VMware Cloud on AWS

Provides cmdlets for managing VMware Cloud on AWS features.

VMware NSX-T Data Center

Provides cmdlets for managing NSX-T servers.

VCF Operations

Provides cmdlets for automating VCF  Operations Manager features.

VMware HCX

Provides cmdlets for managing VMware HCX features.

SDDC Manager

Provides cmdlets for managing SDDC Manager features.

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