Getting started with managing VMC on AWS via PowerCLI

In this post, I will show you how to connect to your VMware Cloud on AWS environment via PowerShell. This can be achieved in 3 simple steps

Let’s start with generating a API Token

Go to API Tokens – > Generate a NEW API TOKEN

You can set the Token TTL as much as you like

Select Organization role and the service role, you can select multiple organization and service roles
For this we will select VMware Cloud on AWS

Hit Generate, Save your token as this cannot be retrieved again.

Let’s connect to our VMC on AWS through PowerShell

$PSVersionTable

I am on version 7.0.2,

To upgrade your PowerShell to latest version directly from CLI you can use

^{_{iex “& { $(irm https://aka.ms/install-powershell.ps1) }” -UseMSI}}

Run the above command and use GUI to install the latest version of PowerCLI

Install VMC.PowerCLI module if you haven’t already. -Scope CurrentUser will install the module only for the current user

_{Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope CurrentUser}

CEIP Participation Yes, change $true to $false if you do not want to join CEIP

_{Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -Scope User -ParticipateInCEIP $true -confirm:$false}

Optional, ignore InvalidCertificateAction

_{Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -Confirm:$false}

We are all set to login to VMC via PowerCLI

Connect to your VMC with the refresh token generated in the first part. Open your PowerShell

_{Connect-Vmc -RefreshToken yourtoken}

Or you can set your Refresh Token in new variable by

$refreshtoken = ‘yourtoken’
Connect-Vmc -RefreshToken $refreshtoken

Most of the cmdlets starts with the New/Get/Set/Remove but they also may have additional operations.

The below command will list all the SDDCs you have access to

Get-VmcSddc

Please add your comments below if you have any queries or feedback regarding the same.