Creating VICredentialStore Items without Typing Your Password into the Command Line
I use PowerCLI a lot. Like, when VMware said to stop using the C# client, I just started using PowerCLI instead of learning the Flash based web client. As such, I log into many vCenter servers many times each day, and creating a VICredentialStore item for each vCenter that I use is one trick that saves me a lot of typing and therefore time. The New-VICredentialStoreItem cmdlet is super easy to use, which creates these credential store items. Once you have an item created, those credentials get used automatically when you connect to a vCenter server, making the logon faster and easier. To use it, just follow this syntax: New-VICredentialStoreItem -Host vCenterServer -User JColeman -Password SuperSecretPassword And there you go, next time you use connect-viserver vCenterServer , it will automatically pass JColeman as the username and SuperSecretPassword as the password. Of course, no one ever wants to do this. Who in their right mind woul...