Evergreen.VMware

A PowerShell module for retrieving available product versions and downloads from the VMware Product Downloads site.

Examples

Return the available product downloads list:

Get-VMwareProductList

Return the available product versions and downloads for VMware vSphere:

Get-VMwareProductList -Name "VMware vSphere" | Get-VMwareProductDownload

Return the available product versions and downloads for the Desktop & End-User Computing category:

Get-VMwareProductList | Where-Object { $_.CategoryMap -eq "desktop_end_user_computing" } | Get-VMwareProductDownload

Find all of the product downloads that don't require you to sign into the download site:

Get-VMwareProductList | Get-VMwareProductDownload | Test-VMwareProductDownload | Where-Object { $_.Result -eq $true }

Installing the Module

Manual Installation from the Repository

The module can be downloaded from the GitHub source repository and includes the module in the src folder. The folder needs to be installed into one of your PowerShell Module Paths. To see the full list of available PowerShell Module paths, use $env:PSModulePath.split(';') in a PowerShell console.

Common PowerShell module paths include:

• Current User: %USERPROFILE%\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\
• All Users: %ProgramFiles%\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\
• OneDrive: $env:OneDrive\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\

To install from the repository

1. Download the main branch to your workstation
2. Copy the contents of the src folder onto your workstation into the desired PowerShell Module path
3. Open a Powershell console
4. Run Set-ExecutionPolicy using the parameter -ExecutionPolicy set to RemoteSigned or Bypass
5. Unblock the files with Get-ChildItem -Path <path to module> -Recurse | Unblock-File

Once installation is complete, you can validate that the module exists by running Get-Module -ListAvailable Evergreen.VMware. To use the module, load it with:

Import-Module -Name ./src/Evergreen.VMware.psd1