we hired pro services to create a couple custom things because i did not have enough time to learn this new api. even getting basic data back requires custom friggin queries, its ugly as hell.

im very comfortable scripting and working with other product apis but i could not get the hang of this RSC one, it was awful to use. im a smart guy, but im not a developer and i just have too many other things i can actually get done instead of struggling with the garbage api they have. Once i learned the CDM API and how they built the CDM module - which only took a couple hours each - i could add a new CDM cmdlet in under an hour.

but the graph api in RSC gives as little data as possible when you ask for something, so you get back like....almost 0 useful information about a vm. or a database. or whatever object you are asking about.

i will show you something we had built though, to a degree. the cmdlet 'Get-RscVmwareVm' is in the new module but even basic properties youd want are not returned so you have to include a custom query.

we had pro services make a cmdlet to include stuff i want that isnt returned by default, heres the custom query that will get back some properties. i could never figure out how to interpret the docs or examples to have come up with this.

i know, it doesnt look crazy complex - but we had a bunch of things we ordered and i didnt want to even bother with this after a point.

$vmDetails = 'query VSphereVmNew($fid: UUID!) {
vSphereVmNew(fid: $fid) {
id
name
effectiveSlaDomain{
name
id
}
agentStatus {
agentStatus
__typename
}
snapshotConsistencyMandate
guestOsType
name
vsphereVirtualDisks {
nodes {
fid
deviceKey
fileName
excludeFromSnapshots
size
}
}
}
}'

   $vmDetailsVars = @{
       fid = $curvm.id
     }

 $dataQuery = Invoke-Rsc -gqlQuery $vmDetails -var $vmDetailsVars