PowerActions for vSphere Web Client
The last topic of this chapter is PowerActions for vSphere Web Client. This is an amazing fling that integrates the vSphere Web Client and PowerCLI to provide complex automation solutions from within the standard vSphere Web Client.
This is actually deployed as a plugin for the vSphere Web Client and allows the end users access to PowerCLI commands and scripts in the vSphere Web Client integrated PowerShell Console. In addition to that, this enables the users to right-click on entity in Web Client and run a script against that entity. Sounds amazing, right? Also, Mac and Linux users get the PowerShell console from their environment directly.
The fling can be installed from https://labs.vmware.com/flings/poweractions-for-vsphere-web-client. The prerequisites for this fling installation are as follows:
- VMware vSphere 5.1 to 6.0 (earlier than 5.1 has not been tested)
- PowerShell host machine
- Windows 2003 Server or newer
- .NET 4.0 or 4.5
- PowerShell v1, v2, v3, or...
