PowerCli enable Secure Boot

rman91 · October 11, 2018, 10:18am

Hi All

I’m creating a script and am stuck at finding the correct solution for enabling Secure Boot (basically so the box is ticked post command)

I’ve managed to set the Firmware to EFI but can’t enable the Secure Boot (EFI Boot Only)

I’ve tried the below to no avail:

$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

$bootOptions = New-Object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineBootOptions

$bootOptions.vm.ExtensionData.Config.EfiSecureBootEnabled = $true

$spec.BootOptions = $bootOptions

Version: VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.0 Release 2 build 3056836

Any help would be much appreciated

Thank you

kvprasoon · October 11, 2018, 12:09pm

VMWare docs for this ,

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-898217D4-689D-4EB5-866C-888353FE241C.html

rman91 · October 12, 2018, 4:04am

Hi - this doesn’t explain how to configure in PowerCLI format, it only sets the Firmware to EFI

kvprasoon · October 12, 2018, 5:16am

My search hit this result which is an example in VMWare GitHub repo.

github.com

vmware/PowerCLI-Example-Scripts/blob/master/Scripts/SecureBoot.ps1

Function Get-SecureBoot {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS Query Seure Boot setting for a VM in vSphere 6.5
    .NOTES  Author:  William Lam
    .NOTES  Site:    www.virtuallyghetto.com
    .PARAMETER Vm
      VM to query Secure Boot setting
    .EXAMPLE
      Get-VM -Name Windows10 | Get-SecureBoot
    #>
    param(
        [Parameter(
            Mandatory=$true,
            ValueFromPipeline=$true,
            ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true)
        ]
        [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.InventoryItemImpl]$Vm
     )

     $secureBootSetting = if ($vm.ExtensionData.Config.BootOptions.EfiSecureBootEnabled) { "enabled" } else { "disabled" }

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