[Help] How to get ESXi Host's Networkadapter information!
Hi,I searche a lot but still can not find the following information vir PowerCLI: The device name , eg: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection Wating for you help & Thanks in advance!
View ArticleNetbackup and Linux vma server
I'm trying to configure the vma server as a netbackup client. I've installed the netbackup client(6.5) and all works fine it i run bpcd in either debug or standalone mode. I'd like to configure it so...
View ArticlePowerCLI rookie needs help on changing VLANs
Hello Everyone,I will be changing VLAN on a large group of VM's within vSphere 5 and would rather use powercli to do so as opposed to doing each one indiviually. Can someone point me in the right...
View ArticleVma for esxi4 and 5 vi-admin and root
I have an application that i need to install via vma for both version 4 and 5 of esxi. when i try to install the application in vma 4 i get an error stating that you need root rights to install...
View ArticleScript to Retrieve VM Advanced Configuration (VMX) settings
Need a script to Retrieve Virtual Advanced configuration info for a single or multiple VMs output. Right click on the VM-> edit settings->option->general->confirguration parameter.
View ArticleIs there a way to export filenames from datastore to excel or etc.?
I have a bunch of orphaned ISOs sitting in my datastore, I want to send these to someone to approve deleting them.Is there anyway to export the contents of the datastore into an excel sheet or...
View Articlevma - vmware-cmd
Hi, Apologies if posting in wrong place... I am having problems finding information on the vmware-cmd getguestinfo. vmware-cmd --config <myconfig> <my_machine> getguestinfo ip Ip works and...
View ArticleNew tool to backup your ESXi and more !
Hi there, I just want to let you know that I publicly released a few helpful tools for VMware vSphere. In this post I will tell you more about ESXi Configuration Backup. ESXi Configuration Backup is an...
View ArticleNeed general vmware script which can list zombie file from mutiple vCenters...
Need general vmware script which can list zombie file from mutiple vCenters and send it to my mail id
View ArticleHow to quickly shutdown all vms in an emergency.
Does anyone know how to quickly, but "gracefully" shutdown all virtual machines on a cluster of ESXi hosts?We have had a couple of power-outage situations where we only had 30 minutes (battery) to shut...
View ArticleKickstart Esxi5
Hello, i prepared a Kickstart file. But i don't understand why some Parts are not working. "vim-cmd" are not working in my kickstart. the Level parameter for the %firstboot is not supported anyore >...
View ArticleNeed an Automation process
We have a vsphere environment with development VMs that have configurations that change constantly. What would be nice would be a way to run an update script throughout all the VMs to bring them up the...
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vSphere5 - Consolidate snapshot
hello folks i'm looking for a command to consolidate snapshots in vSphere5 using the shell. in vSphere5 they added that new option to consolidate snapshots in vSphere Client. My problems is as follow:...
View ArticleAutomating changes to Virtual Guest BIOS
Hello, I want to make a mass change to the BIOS configs to all of our virtual guests. Currently, we have PXE as the first item in the boot order....and i want to change that. Anybody know of any way...
View ArticleAutomated Power On Based On Resource Pool
Hi, Currently running a script which is powering on VM's within a given Resource Pool, the issue im having is when it loops round it is picking the same VM up again and hence getting the error 'cannot...
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Auto Deploy boot issue with ESXi 5.0 Update 1
For the past week I have been implementing Auto Deploy and I have ran into a few problems. Some where easily solved, some don't. I haven't found a solutions for the problem I'm describing now: whenever...
View ArticleAlerts no longer running batch files after applying vSphere patch
After applying an update that moved my vSphere server to v4.1.0, 491557, the alerts that use the "run a command" action to run BAT scripts have stopped working. The alert does trigger and when I add an...
View ArticleRetrieving Annotations/Attributes using vCLI
I'm trying to retrieve the custom attributes I've applied to guest VM's programmatically. I can find a lot of resources for doing this using PowerCLI or the SDK, but none for the vSphere CLI (esxcli,...
View ArticleView PowerCLI help - show a count of powered on desktop in each pool
Is there anyway to display the number of powered on virtual desktops in each pool? I have played around with the get-pool cmd but really can't find anything that shows how to get a count of powered on...
View ArticleI need a Permission to Cancel (Recent Tasks), which one?
hi,I would like to set one of my administrators the option to Cancel running tasks VSphere (Recent Tasks), How can i add this permission? Thanks a lot.
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