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Yury Spiridonov
Yury Spiridonov

Reputation: 11

VMWare Workstation (11.1.0) - can PowerCLI be used to manage VMs?

I have ESXi server on the server and VMWare Workstation 11.1.0 on Windows 7 laptop. To manage VMs on ESXi I use PowerCLI and to debug certain things I'd like to use the same code to manage VMs locally on the VMWare Workstation (clones of those on ESXi). Though whenever I try to connect using Connect-VIServer -Server localhost to local Workstation it requests username/password and then fails with the:

Connect-VIServer : 17/05/2015 13:00:43    Connect-VIServer        Could not determine user name and/or password for server localhost
At line:1 char:1
+ Connect-VIServer localhost
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Connect-VIServer], ViServerConnectionException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ViCore_Login_CredentialNotFound,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.ConnectVIServer

Is it something I'm doing wrongly while connecting to the Workstation or Workstation doesn't support PowerCLI interface at all? Couldn't find any official statements on this matter of the vmware web-site or else where.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5871

Answers (2)

TFT
TFT

Reputation: 134

Workstation does not support PowerCLI, so if you want test your powercli scripts you need a ESX.

But you can use vmxtoolkit to do cool stuff.

Source

Upvotes: 1

noam
noam

Reputation: 1983

Apparently Workstation can host a vSphere server. I'd expect PowerCLI to connect with that vSphere server, but I'd be surprised if Workstation itself listens for PowerCLI at all. If you find a definitive answer online or from VMware support, I'd be curious to hear it.

Upvotes: 1

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