Winget is a Package Manager CLI based tool for Windows 10 + Windows 11. Winget makes it possible to manage Application through one central Package Manager, like ‘apt’ known from Linux based systems or Homebrew (brew) from macOS. With this Package Manager you will be able to install/update/discover and remove several Applications even those which are not installed through Winget. Isn’t it cool?
This is the start of PowerShell fundamentals series, which will contain some basic information and cmdlets. I’ll split this into several post’s, because I don’t want it to be a huge one pager. Also I cannot write all information about this topic down within one day. So have fun reading.
A few PowerShell cmdlets to manage vm power state from Hosts defined in an array.
With this basic structure you can combine several conditions -> very useful if you are going to maintain your vSphere environment.
First of all we need the necessary PowerShell-Module package for VMware: PowerCLI.
Depending on your vSphere Version you get information about PowerCli in the documentation from VMware itself: docs.vmware