Running VMWare powerCLI commands with SoapUI

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dhishkaow picture dhishkaow · Jul 19, 2012 · Viewed 15k times · Source

I have a powershell script file with PowerCLI commands like Connect-VIServer etc. I am able to run the script file in PowerGUI after I added the library references to VMWare PowerCLI but I don't know how to run it through SoapUI. I'm guessing it won't work with the regular Powershell CLI either. Is there any way to make this work? Here's the error, if it helps:

The term 'Connect-VIServer' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function
, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a pat
h was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At Test.ps1:10 char:23
+ $vm = Connect-VIServer <<<<  -Server $vcenterIP -User $vcenterUser -Password 
$vcenterPW
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Connect-VIServer:String) [], Co 
   mmandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Answer

Tomas Panik picture Tomas Panik · Jul 19, 2012

try calling this in the beginning of the script:

Add-PSSnapin "VMware.VimAutomation.Core" | Out-Null

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