Installing VmWare PowerCli on MacOS
PowerCli is the command line for the VmWare infrastructure. PowerCli uses Microsoft PowerShell Core and .Net. It might be challenging to get it working on MacOS. Though PowerShell says its cross-platform, I was facing issues with installing and running it on mac. Docker to the rescue. VmWare published PowerCliCore DockerFile . With this, installing PowerCli was very easy. These are the commands I used: (I am running MacOS High Sierra 10.3.3 and I have docker for mac already installed) Install and run $ docker pull vmware/powerclicore $ docker run –rm -it vmware/powerclicore To run in daemon mode $ docker run –name powercli -dit vmware/powerclicore $ docker exec -it powercli pwsh After this point, you will be on the PowerShell prompt and can run regular PowerCli Commands If vSphere has a self signed certificate, you have to ignore SSL validation for Cli to authenticate successfully PS /root> Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore Connec