How to get around PowerCLI Connect-VIServer

Question

I am pretty new to using PowerCLI and I would like to use it to automate a couple of things, but it does not seem to allow me to run what I want to without connecting to a server. I do not want to have to connect to a server to automate the service I am trying to run. Would anyone have any ideas on how to work around the Connect-VIServer issue?

If it helps I am trying to use the Set-Template command to convert my file to a VM.

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

Answer 1

If you don't own a copy of vCenter you can still get a lot out of PowerCLI. PowerCLI will enable you to manage multiple ESX servers at once even without vCenter, but no *vMotion or templates*, you still need vCenter for those features!

So you can't avoid the use of connect-viserver