Registering an Instantclone administrator using PowerCLI

Another question Sean Massey asked me if it is possible to register an instant clone domain administrator. This is possible using the instantcloneenginedomainadministrator service with the InstantCloneEngineDomainAdministrator_create method. This needs a spec with the following content:

• spec (vmware.hv.InstantCloneEngineDomainAdministratorSpec)
  • base (vmware.hv.InstantCloneEngineDomainAdministratorBase)
    • username (string)
    • domain (domainid)
    • password(vmware.hv.securestring)

The password can be created using the same scriptlet I used to register a new vCenter server. The domain ID can actually be gotten by listing all domains using

$services1.ADDomain.addomain_list()

For now I have created a scripts that requires you to give some details so it can register the instant clone domain administrator. It can also be found on Github but I will also definitively add it to the vmware.hv.helper module.

$icausername=read-host "What username to use for instantclone administrator?"
$icadomain=read-host "please give the dns name for the domain to user (i.e. domain.com)"
$icapassword=read-host "vCenter User password?" -assecurestring
$temppw = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($icaPassword)
$PlainicaPassword = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto($temppw)
$icadminPassword = New-Object VMware.Hv.SecureString
$enc = [system.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$icadminPassword.Utf8String = $enc.GetBytes($PlainicaPassword)
$spec=new-object vmware.hv.InstantCloneEngineDomainAdministratorSpec
$spec.base=new-object vmware.hv.InstantCloneEngineDomainAdministratorBase
$spec.base.domain=(($services1.ADDomain.addomain_list() | where {$_.DnsName -eq $icadomain} | select-object -first 1).id)
$spec.base.username=$icausername
$spec.base.password=$icadminpassword
$services1.InstantCloneEngineDomainAdministrator.InstantCloneEngineDomainAdministrator_Create($spec)