VI Toolkit for Windows Community Extensions

Get-TkeVmx wasn't working due to some missing parentheses. Thanks to Denis for pointing this out.

This is committing some old work I did on alarm creation since someone asked about it in the forums.

Greatly improved the lockdown mode function, should be completely reliable now.

Added docs and fixed pipeline issues for a bunch of cmdlets.

Added some license auditing functions.

Changed Get-TkeDatastoreFile to deal with a bug in PowerCLI 4.0.

Added some crude task scheduling commands.

Added: Get-TkeAlarm, Get-TkeConfigIssue, and several things related to performance and log analysis.

Added regions.

Added debugging and diagnostic functions.

Added a function to enable lockdown mode for ESXi 4.0. Since this API was accidentally kept private for 4.0 I use a trick that calls the API from a scheduled task. Check it out in the Set-TkeVMHostLockdown function.

Fix a problem setting default route on ESX 4.

Adding a really great set of iSCSI management functions contributed by Glenn Sizemore. Thanks also to Glenn for figuring out how to create custom types.

Added routing operations

Get-TkeVMHostRoute
New-TkeVMHostRoute
Remove-TkeVMHostRoute

There is no set operation yet but one is needed.

These support vSphere 4.0 routing tables in addition to the basic networking seen in earlier versions.

Added Get-TkeCustomField to deal with the missing Get-CustomField.

Added Get-TkeVMHostNetworkAdapter. The objects produced by this can be fed into Set-VMHostNetworkAdapter.

Fixed a typo and also enhanced/fixed some software iSCSI functions.

Fixed the snapshot size cmdlet and added credential caching to connect-recent.

Updated Copy-TkeDatastoreFile to also support reading files that are local to ESX. This works with stuff in /host, not sure about /tmp.

Note that for whatever reason you must authenticate when accessing /host, it won't accept your soap session cookie. In other words you *MUST* use -sourceCredential or -destinationCredential as appropriate.

New-TkeLinkedClone now emits VM objects, so that it can be piped into Start-VM, etc.

Ported Luc's install batch file to XP and added a few things of my own.

Updated Copy-TkeDatastoreFile to support copies to /tmp. This is how patches are staged.

It seems that if you try to copy files to directories other than /etc, uploads are disabled for the rest of the session. Unfortunately that means that you can't enable ssh remotely on ESXi, for example.

Added New-TkeLinkedClone to create linked clones from a VM.

Fixed a serious bug in Copy-TkeDatastoreFile that caused session hangs.

Fixed New-TkeDatastoreDirectory and Register-TkeVM to be a lot better.

Added advanced function Clone-TkeRole

Update Set-TkeRole, added -append parameter

Changing Priviliges to Privileges