At long last, VMware has released their PowerShell toolkit to the public. You can grab it at this convenient URL (love it when companies do that):
http://vmware.com/go/powershell
There is already an official forum online for the toolkit which those in the closed beta were already participating. That means there’s already some content in there for new users. It’s a great place to ask questions.
The toolkit is still beta, and the documentation is unfinished. But what’s in there now is really cool and very stable. I believe it is covered by VMware Support already so you can actually open a support case if you run into trouble, if you have a support contract. Below is a list of the scope of the cmdlets included. Instead of waste 102 lines of text I’ve grouped them by verb and noun for clarity.
1: 76# Get-Command -PSSnapin v* | group verb | ft count,name -auto
2:
3: Count Name
4: ----- ----
5: 1 Add
6: 1 Dismount
7: 2 Find
8: 28 Get
9: 1 Load
10: 1 Mount
11: 7 Move
12: 16 New
13: 17 Remove
14: 1 Restart
15: 1 Save
16: 18 Set
17: 1 Shutdown
18: 1 Start
19: 2 Stop
20: 2 Suspend
21: 1 Update
22: 1 Wait
23:
24: 77# Get-Command -PSSnapin v* | group noun | ft count,name -auto
25:
26: Count Name
27: ----- ----
28: 5 VMHost
29: 3 Tools
30: 1 EntityView
31: 1 EntityViews
32: 4 CDDrive
33: 5 Cluster
34: 5 Datacenter
35: 4 Datastore
36: 1 Event
37: 4 FloppyDrive
38: 5 Folder
39: 3 HardDisk
40: 3 Inventory
41: 1 Log
42: 1 LogType
43: 4 NetworkAdapter
44: 4 OSCustomizationSpec
45: 5 ResourcePool
46: 4 Snapshot
47: 1 Stat
48: 3 Task
49: 4 Template
50: 1 View
51: 1 Views
52: 4 VirtualSwitch
53: 1 VIServer
54: 1 VIToolkitVersion
55: 8 VM
56: 4 VMGuest
57: 2 VMHostNetwork
58: 1 VMHostStorage
59: 2 Session
60: 3 CustomField
61: 3 VMHostNetworkAdapter
Supposedly there was going to be a PSDrive provider as well but I don’t see it anywhere. Maybe it’ll turn up. 
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