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"Create a vSphere Distributed Switch"   "Status: The operation is not supported on the object" We were using CISCO ACI + vSphere for a while. We now have a new datacentre coming up and there were conversations on ACI vs NSX. But finally decided to give ACI a second chance :( Current datacenters are on vSphere 6.0 and were linked to ACI with no issues. We decided to go with latest 6.7 vSphere and Built them. ESXi hosts were added on to vCenter and a management DVS was created manually (we always had management DVS out side ACI!) and ESXi VMK0 was moved there, basically all went as per plan and well. Then came the ACI integration part... We had 3 vCenters and they were all under same VMM domain. So we decided to add the new VC also there. ACI Role was created in vCenter for permissions, service account is configured there mapping it to the new role. Time came for the integration and it wasn't happy about something.. After adding the new VC, ACI could see ESXi inve

Today I was trying to install PowerCli on my Windows 10 machine using below command Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -RequiredVersion 11.1.0.11289667 Ended up with an error "PackageManagement\Install-Package : The following commands are already available on this system:'Get-Cluster,New-Cluster,Remove-Cluster'. This module 'VMware.VimAutomation.Core' may override the existing commands. If you still want to install this module" Looked like some of the modules are conflicting. As per MS document here " If the module being installed has the same name or version, or contains commands in an existing module, warning messages are displayed. After you confirm that you want to install the module and override the warnings, use the -Force and -AllowClobber"  So decided to use  -AllowClobber and it worked!