PowerCLI

[oliver_g]

Hello Members,

I am using PowerCLI to create, delete, and check snapshots on a series of vms.

Some on Vcenter server and some on standalone hosts.

The vCenter servers are not on a domain.

for some reason (as yet unknown to me) I cannot used this to connect to the vCenter servers:

Connect-VIServer -Server "ip addr" -User [e-mail] -Password vmuserpassword

This fails in a ps1 script, and fails if I run it from the PowerCLI command line.

I can log in with these creds through the vsphere client.

Any clues on getting the credentials to work?

Thanks,

Olliver g

[KocPawel]

Any error messages?Can you take a screenshot or something?

[daphnissov]

Wrong sub-forum. Please move to PowerCLI.

[Gidrakos]

Try storing your credentials in a variable and pass that along, rather than sending the password in plain text.

$cred = Get-Credential

Connect-ViServer -credential $cred

[vkernelblog]

Hi Oliver g,

As mentioned above, you should add you credentials in a plain text format.

There are two ways to secure your login:

Option 1: add get-credentials in a variable that you could use in your script.

Option 2: ViCredentialstoreItem. This is a secure credential store from PowerCLI. Read more: Have you seen PowerCLI's "Credential Store" feature? - VMware PowerCLI Blog - VMware Blogs

If you need any help with it, just let me know.

[Scott Vessey]

Moderator: Moved to PowerCLI

[LucD]

Can you show the full error message you are getting?

There are a couple of things you might want to check:

• Are you using a recent PowerCLI version?

          Get-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -ListAvailable

• Did you set the PowerCLI configuration to ignore invalid certificates?

         

          Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore

• Is the TLS setting corresponding with the one you have on the vCenter? Try this before the Connect-VIServer

          [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol =  [System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]'Tls,Tls11,Tls12'