Learning PowerCLI

Using the vSphere CLI commands from PowerCLI

If you installed both VMware vSphere PowerCLI and VMware vSphere CLI on the same computer, you can use the vSphere CLI Perl commands from PowerCLI. Using the VMware vSphere CLI commands, you can perform tasks that you cannot do with PowerCLI natively, such as configuring IPsec on your ESXi host with the vicfg-ipsec command.

The Add-vCLIfunction function creates a function string for each Perl script in the vSphere CLI bin directory. The function strings are executed using the PowerShell Invoke-Expression cmdlet. This creates a PowerShell function for each vSphere CLI Perl script.

function Add-vCLIfunction { <# .SYNOPSIS Adds the VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface Perl scripts as PowerCLI functions. ...