I am currently preparing a deployment package architecture for a full vSphere environment and one of the requests was to include PowerCLI in the installation script.

I was surprised that I could not find anything already mentioned on how to do this on Google.

So here is the syntax:

# Install PowerCLI
Set-executionPolicy RemoteSigned -Confirm:$false -force
Write-Host "Installing PowerCLI"
$myargs = $myargs = '/q /s /w /L1033 /v" /qn '
$exe = "C:\installs\VMware-PowerCLI-5.1.0-793510.exe"
Start-process $exe $myargs –Wait
Add-PSSnapin -Name VMware.VimAutomation.Core

Line 4-5: Prepare the installation syntax

Line 7: Add the PowerCLI Snapin

Easy as that!