I noticed that when I update-module PowerCLI the old versions aren't removed.

Is there a way to cleanup this ? i.e. automatically remove the old module versions ?

Of course I can do this manually but hey we are automating stuff here

Hi there,

I'm trying to build a powercli script to perform the following actions:

Poweroff a list of VMs

VMotion to the new hosts

Upgrade VM Hardware and tick the VMware Tools upgrade at next power cycle box

SVMotion the VMs to the storage

Start up the VMs

The problem I'm getting is when the SVMotion is started the script doesn't wait for it to finish to start up the VMs. I tryied with the Wait-Task, but the problem is that the Move-VM task itself finishes but the SVMotion is still running.

Can someone help me here please.

Thanks

This is the script I'm using: (please note I'm new to powerCLI)

# List of VMs to move and Upgrade

$vms = Import-CSV "C:\tmp\list_of_vms.csv"

# Shutdown gracefully and wait for Power Off state

foreach ($vm in $vms){

  Get-VM -Name $vm.name | Shutdown-VMGuest -Confirm:$false

}

do {}  until ((Get-VM $vm.name | select PowerState).powerstate -eq "PoweredOff")

# VMotion VMs to the new Cluster and Upgrade Hardware Version and VMware Tools

foreach ($vm in $vms){

  Move-VM -VM $vm.name -Destination $vm.targetHost -RunAsync

  $vmConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

  $vmConfigSpec.Tools = New-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo

  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = "UpgradeAtPowerCycle"

  Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | %{

    $_.ReconfigVM($vmConfigSpec)

}

Set-VM -VM (Get-VM -Name $vm.name) -Version v11 -Confirm:$false -RunAsync

Move-VM -VM $vm.name -Datastore $vm.targetDataStore -RunAsync

Start-VM -VM $vm.name -Confirm:$false -RunAsync

}

Hello!

The main question in topic. I tried this one example:

$VM = get-civm 'centos_template'

($VM.ExtensionData.Section | where {$_ -is [VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud.Views.guestCustomizationSection]}).computername = 'centos'

But it's not working...

I found some useful article how to set some parameters of VM here GeekAfterFive - Infrastructure as Code . Looks like that is possible, but you must know exact section and property. Where can I get this?

And the second quiestion.

The performance of requests through the powershell module is a bit sloooow. Is it by design or it depends on performance inside the Vcloud Provider I'm connecting to? In my org connection latency to cloud is ~7ms.

Thanks.

Hi!

I'm trying to connec to to a vCenter server from powershell session with PowerCLI module loaded but receive the following error:

Connect-VIServer : Could not load file or assembly 'VMware.Vim, Version=6.7.0.185, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.At line:1 char:1

Here is the script code:

#Unload existing PowerCLI

If (Get-PSSnapin | ? {$_.Name -like "VMware*"}) { Get-PSSnapin VMware* | Remove-PSSnapin }

If (Get-Module | ? {$_.Name -like "VMware*"}) { Get-Module VMware* | Remove-Module -Force }

#Import PowerCLI v11

$ModulePath = $PSScriptRoot +"\Modules\VMware-PowerCLI-11.2.0.12780525"

$env:PSModulePath = $ModulePath

Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Core

#Set PowerCLI configuration

Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -Scope Session -DisplayDeprecationWarnings:$false -Confirm:$false | out-null

Connect-VIServer ********

....

....

$env:PSModulePath variable does not contain old PowerCLI paths and after loading new path to $env:PSModulePath shows :

PS C:\Users\a> get-module -listavailable

    Directory: D:\*******\Modules\VMware-PowerCLI-11.2.0.12780525

ModuleType Name                                ExportedCommands

---------- ----                                ----------------

Script     VMware.DeployAutomation             {Add-DeployRule, Add-ProxyServer, Add-ScriptBundle, Copy-DeployRule...}

Script     VMware.ImageBuilder                 {Add-EsxSoftwareDepot, Add-EsxSoftwarePackage, Compare-EsxImageProfil...

Manifest   VMware.PowerCLI

Script     VMware.Vim

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core       {Connect-CisServer, Disconnect-CisServer, Get-CisService}

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud          {Add-CIDatastore, Connect-CIServer, Disconnect-CIServer, Get-Catalog...}

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.Common

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.Core           {Add-PassthroughDevice, Add-VirtualSwitchPhysicalNetworkAdapter, Add-...

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.Hcx            {Connect-HCXServer, Disconnect-HCXServer, Get-HCXAppliance, Get-HCXAp...

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.HorizonView    {Connect-HVServer, Disconnect-HVServer}

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.License        Get-LicenseDataManager

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.Nsxt           {Connect-NsxtServer, Disconnect-NsxtServer, Get-NsxtPolicyService, Ge...

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk            {Get-ErrorReport, Get-InstallPath, Get-PSVersion}

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.Security       {Get-SecurityInfo, Get-VTpm, Get-VTpmCertificate, Get-VTpmCSR...}

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.Srm            {Connect-SrmServer, Disconnect-SrmServer}

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.Storage        {Add-KeyManagementServer, Copy-VDisk, Export-SpbmStoragePolicy, Get-K...

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.StorageUtility Update-VmfsDatastore

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.Vds            {Add-VDSwitchPhysicalNetworkAdapter, Add-VDSwitchVMHost, Export-VDPor...

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.Vmc            {Connect-Vmc, Disconnect-Vmc, Get-VmcSddcNetworkService, Get-VmcServi...

Script     VMware.VimAutomation.vROps          {Connect-OMServer, Disconnect-OMServer, Get-OMAlert, Get-OMAlertDefin...

Script     VMware.VumAutomation                {Add-EntityBaseline, Copy-Patch, Get-Baseline, Get-Compliance...}

Get-Module also shows different VMware.Vim that in the error:

PS C:\Users\a> Get-Module | select  ModuleType,name,version

                             ModuleType Name                                    Version

                             ---------- ----                                    -------

                               Manifest Microsoft.PowerShell.Management         3.0.0.0

                               Manifest Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility                      3.0.0.0

                                 Script VMware.Vim                                            6.7.0.12483609

                                 Script VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core           11.2.0.12483642

                                 Script VMware.VimAutomation.Common             11.2.0.12483627

                                 Script VMware.VimAutomation.Core               11.2.0.12483638

                                 Script VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk                11.2.0.12483635

Which is quite weird imho...

PowerCLI 5.5 is installed on the following machine (do not ask me to remove or update it, I cannot modify it). If i remove PowerCLI 5.5 from the system- everything works fine. But i cannot remove it.

Any ideas how can I resolve it and import PowerCLI 11 without removing 5.5 into a powershell session?

P.S. OS is w2012 (not R2), and it is isolated from the Internet.

HI guru

Does anyone has a script that will let me know which VM in a cluster has an RDM disk on disk mode Non-Persistent.

is this even possible?

Thanks a bunch gurus

Hello.

Anybody have powercli script for tags cleaning: find tags that no attached to any object and delete them?

advanced apology/warning!:

I have tried to format my post to show the script nicely/properly using guide I was previously pointed to by a member on here but it just won't (not sure if it's because it's quite long!) so my apologies ( I had this trouble before so I've attached my script instead)

my script is basically looping through every server on my estate, and determining a bunch of things and then getting the uptime of that server via the os guest (wasn't happy with the stat from the hosts itself) . it works fine until it finds a server where invoke-vmscript returns the error "the guest operations agent is out of date"

fine don't mind that i'll just pipe that in my csv, move on and look at it after.. problem is - it stops my script dead, instead of continuing on through the estate (of which I suspect there to be more or the same error)

I thought by checking the tool status (which can seen in the ELSE of the first IF)  before going down to the level of the actual OS checking it would filter/capture it but it seems to be ignoring this. How would I go about doing this with invoke-vmscript? do I simply need to do another if and do something based on the scripts output.

any guidance is appreciated

Hello,

I feel stupid but I can't move a VM into a specific VM folder ?

When I do it the old way, using "-Destination" I get a warning about "destination switch" being deprecated + an error telling me that index is out of array bounds.

Okey.

I do it using -InventoryLocation, no warning, but still out of bounds.

Please tell me what am I doing wrong ?

PS C:\Users\Shar> $vm = get-vm "tests-guillaume-infra-sn"

PS C:\Users\Shar> $vm

 

 

Name                 PowerState Num CPUs MemoryGB

----                 ---------- -------- --------

tests-guillaume-i... PoweredOff 2        4,000

 

 

PS C:\Users\Shar> $folder = get-folder -name WSUS

PS C:\Users\Shar> $folder

 

 

Name                           Type

----                           ----

WSUS                           VM

 

 

PS C:\Users\Shar> Move-VM -InventoryLocation $folder -VM $vm

Move-VM : 29/03/2019 14:44:28   Move-VM         L'index se trouve en dehors des limites du tableau.

Au caractère Ligne:1 : 1

+ Move-VM -InventoryLocation $folder -VM $vm

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Move-VM], VimException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.MoveVM

I found by luck that there seems to be a new cmdlet, "Move-Inventory" but still same error :

PS C:\Users\Shar> Move-Inventory -Item $vm -Destination $folder

Move-Inventory : 29/03/2019 14:51:04    Move-Inventory          L'index se trouve en dehors des limites du tableau.

 

 

Au caractère Ligne:1 : 1

+ Move-Inventory -Item $vm -Destination $folder

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Move-Inventory], VimException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.MoveInventory

PS C:\Users\Shar> $PSVersionTable

 

 

Name                           Value

----                           -----

PSVersion                      5.1.14393.576

PSEdition                      Desktop

PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}

BuildVersion                   10.0.14393.576

CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000

WSManStackVersion              3.0

PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3

SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

 

 

 

 

PS C:\Users\Shar> Get-Module VMware.PowerCLI

PS C:\Users\Shar> Get-Module VMware.PowerCLI -ListAvailable

 

 

 

 

    Répertoire : C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules

 

 

 

 

ModuleType Version    Name                                ExportedCommands

---------- -------    ----                                ----------------

Manifest   11.2.0.... VMware.PowerCLI

Manifest   11.0.0.... VMware.PowerCLI

--EDIT--

I just checked with same powercli but against a vcenter 6.0, no problem

So this may be a bug with vcenter 6.7 ?

Hello, first of all I'd like to inform that I'm not able to open a thread by simply logging into the VMware communities. I'm redirected to "temporary unavailable" message due to maintenance etc..etc.. while if I login through MyVMware I'm able to.

My question: how to identify vMotion or Management portgroup in a dVS? I'm not able to find anything in the extensionData options available in:

Get-VDPortgroup -VDSwitch $VDSwitch

I need it as I'm preparing a script where newly added hosts will have their vmk0 migrated to the management network PG.

Hi,

A newbie question:

How can I find out which Datacenters are using the same Datastore. 

The command I'am using is:

Hello

I tried to make the Backup-VCSAToFile work in my development environment.

vSphere 6.5 – Automate VCSA Backup » Brian Graf's Virtualization Blog

I'm stuck here:

A server error occurred: 'com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthorized': Unable to authorize user (Server error id:

'vapi.security.authorization.invalid'). Check $Error[0].Exception.ServerError for more details.

In Zeile:1 Zeichen:1

What did I do?

Windows 7 VM, installed VMware Powershell 6.5

Started ISE

loaded modules

Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Core

Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Vds

Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Cloud

Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.PCloud

Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Cis.Core

Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Storage

Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.HorizonView

Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.HA

Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.vROps

Import-Module VMware.VumAutomation

Import-Module VMware.DeployAutomation

Import-Module VMware.ImageBuilder

Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.License

loaded the script itself as module (necessary?)

connected to vcsa with connect-viserver

Used given example in the script with my parameters.

Then I get a pop up

(Connection to CisServer)

I don't know what that is.

If I use my credentials for the vCenter connection - AD authentication, I get that error

Backup-VCSAToFile:Aservererroroccurred:'com.vmware.vapi.std.errors.unauthorized':Unabletoauthorizeuser (Servererrorid:

'vapi.security.authorization.invalid').Check$Error[0].Exception.ServerError formoredetails.

InZeile:1Zeichen:1

Any hints?

https://code.vmware.com/web/tool/11.2.0/vmware-powercli

VMware-PowerCLI-11.2.0-12780525.zip

download link not update!

Hello there,

I've found many thread and forum that were subject to this bug (?), but I didn't find a solution that suits my environnement...

I'm working on a Linux CentOS 7 with a PowerShell 6.1.1 package on it. I'm trying to make a loading print that show PowerCli commands is still running and is not crashed 'cause sometimes it's... Very... Very long...

The issue is when I run the loading script the jobs never ends, the only one way to make them finish properly is to redirect output, if there are output directed to the console it hangs.

However I want to keep the object that are returned from my jobs commands, I tried to Export-Clixml those outputs but the issue happens in this situation and I didn't find a way to export my objects in a xml file and avoid the issue by redirecting the output, if I do both export and redirect the xml file is empty.

I've tried with simple commands passed to the -ScriptBlockString parameter, like Get-VM.

This script is adapted from this one: http://www.vxav.fr/2017-08-08-easily-run-powercli-commands-as-jobs/

Thanks !

I've been seeing this warning message when calling New-OSCustomizationNicMapping for a while now. No one seems to have commented on it anywhere online, which is odd.

I create my customization using New-OSCustomizationSpec and pass it to New-OSCustomizationNicMapping.

What is the proper thing to do here? Continue to ignore this nonsensical warning?

All,

I have VMs protected by ReocverPoint appliance and under VM summary tab it shows all relevant information. (Please refer attached screenshot). I would like to click on Unprotect button as shown in screenshot.

I am not able to find it using get-view method. Any suggestion?

Hello,

I am trying to build a powercli script to vmotion/svmotion bulk of VMs at the same to other cluster using a CSV.

I found something but it will start first VM and wait to complete then start the second. my request is simultaneous move.

Any help it will be appreciated,

Hi all,

This is my first post on here so please be gentle with me, I am relatively new to Powershell and PowerCLI for VMWare and have delved into attempting to use 'get-esxcli -vmhost v2' against a list of hosts to retrieve the hba adapter details, specifically vmhba driver detail in order to investigate a san connectivity issue.

Once connected, I then drill into this content as follows to retrieve the fc detail I am after, $host.storage.san.fc.list.invoke()

This works fine for newer Synergy 480 Gen10 hardware but for older kit such as a ProLiant BL460c Gen9, It does not list the adapter driver details.

Does anyone know what I am either doing wrong or what I can do to retrieve the details I am after using PowerCLI, I have found other scripts which use ssh via plink and stop/start the ssh service per ESXi host but I find this a bit clunky and unsecure.

Many thanks in advance.

Hi All,

I need to query and possibly set HA settings in particular " Heartbeat Monitoring Sensitivity" (See Screenshot Attached)

Hi,

I am getting the below error, while deploying VM from a template.

Everything works well expect the first part assigning the IP address

Please help.

(on Windows

specs only), and DefaultGateway parameters.

At D:\deploy_Template\testdeploy.ps1:7 char:74

+ ... icMapping | Set-OSCustomizationNicMapping -IpMode UseStaticIp -IpAddr ...

The command “get-usbdevice”(also “Remove-UsbDevice”) should retrieve the USB devices that could be located on a VM. The problem is that cmdlt only will display those USB devices, if a USB device is currently connected. It will not report anything if the VM has added USB hardware but it currently isn’t connected to anything (ie Just a USB controller).

Now there are other ways that I can go about finding if the VM has that unwanted hardware:

$unwantedhw = “floppy|serial|usb”
(Get-VM $VMname | Get-View).Config.Hardware.Device | Select -Expand DeviceInfo | Select Label, Summary | where {$_.Label –match $unwantedhw}

I just would of thought that instead of having to go back to some get-view shenanigans, I could do it directly with 1 command like the command “Get-UsbDevice” should do in my opinion. I could to try to write my own function (ie Get-USBController) for this and store it in my profile, but I dont have the time on hand atm.

Has anyone else created this function or know of any updates to the PowerCLI to include this in a later feature release??

Versions of PowerCLI:

   VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.0.1 build 581491

   VMware AutoDeploy PowerCLI Component 5.0 build 544967

   VMware ImageBuilder PowerCLI Component 5.0 build 544967

   VMware vCloud Director PowerCLI Component 1.5 build 581492

   VMware License PowerCLI Component 5.0 build 544881

   VMware vSphere PowerCLI Component 5.0 build 581435

   VMware vSphere Update Manager PowerCLI 5.0 build 432001