How to Install PowerCLI on CentOS ?

In this article I will show you **How to Install PowerCLI on CentOS**, with Some Enterprises, most of the production or staging servers has no internet connectivity and you need to install PowerCLI behind a proxy.

What is VMware PowerCLI

**VMware PowerCLI** is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell, and provides more than 700 **cmdlets** for managing and automating vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, vRealize Operations Manager, vSAN, NSX-T, VMware Cloud Services, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware HCX, VMware Site Recovery Manager, and VMware Horizon environments.

Tested on

| OS | Version | | ------ | ------- | | CentOS | 7 |

Export proxy settings

bash

export http_proxy=http://proxy.mhmd.io:3128
export https_proxy=http://proxy.mhmd.io:3128

Install PowerShell

bash

# Register the Microsoft RedHat repository
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/7/prod.repo | tee /etc/yum.repos.d/microsoft.repo
# Install PowerShell
yum install -y powershell

Install VMware.PowerCLI

bash

pwsh -command Set-PSRepository -Name PSGallery -InstallationPolicy Trusted
pwsh -command Install-Module VMware.PowerCLI,PowerNSX,PowervRA