Upgrade from e1000 to vmxnet3 Help...
Hi, We have about 2000 windows 2008 R2 virtual machines where we need to upgrade from e1000 to vmxnet3. I am looking for a script where I can upgrade and keep the IP of the guest. Some of out virtual...
View ArticleESX-i file access permission denied please help
Dear All, Facing the issue whenever try to access the ESXi 5.0 from Putty as SSH not able to see the files or whenever try to run the command errors shows that permission denied please look at...
View ArticleVM Reboot and vCLI commands
Hi, I am in the process of automating the VM startup process and require help on that. 1. When the VM reboots, it comes back with the login screen. How do I automate this to enter data into the login...
View Articlevmrun times out for some commands
When I run the following command: vmrun -T server -h https://server.aaa.com/sdk -u user -p $pw revertToSnapshot "[storage] dir/vmname.vmx" "initial state" it fails with "Error: Unknown error"In the...
View ArticleVMWare Snapshots and Scheduled Tasks
Hi, I am fairly new to VMware and would like to know something about the snapshots and scheduled windows tasks. I have a situation where I have some back-end processing scripts running which are...
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Host shutdown delay
Hi all, I'm just trying to write a VMWare shutdown script that is executed when a HP UPS detects that power has been out for a period of time. The script takes the datacentre out of HA fine, and shuts...
View ArticleExport Folder Structure
I am migrating from an old vCenter Server 5.1 to a new vCenter Server 5.1. Is there a way to export the folder structure from the old to the new? I have tried some PowerCli but havent been able to...
View Articleautomatic startup list from script
Hello All My question is related to automatic startup gest machines. On our host we have lots of VM's and we do not want to automaticly startup all of them. Is there any script which allow us to auto...
View ArticleHow to gather real-time CPU usage from ESXi host and MVs - Linux/Windows.
Hello My employer has ESXi 5.0 and ESXi 5.1 hosts that run one or more VMs. Some of the VMs are running a very CPU heavy application. The task is to gather real-time data (data points 20 or less...
View ArticleAutomate/Bulk Export of Host Profile Answer Files
Hi All, Im looking to export all of my host profile answer files in one shot. Have a few hundred esx/esxi servers and want to grab this info together. Is there a way to do this? Thank you for any...
View ArticleHow to reliably match guest disks to virtual disks under Linux?
Greetings, I need to match up Linux (RHEL 5) guest disks to the virtual disks at the hardware device level (outside the guest). In Windows, the SCSI port/host number and target ID are easy to get at...
View Articlevmware tools - host detection
Hi, As you know vmware tools 8 now has couple of registered performance counters within windows guest machines - vmguestLib_VMEM and vmguestLib_VCPU . I wanted to know if this information can be...
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Need to down virtual nic after physical nic fail
Hello! I have a ESXi 5.0 server, some VMs, which connected to vSwitch with one vmnic.When vmnic link is down, I need that VMs also knows that link is down.Is it possible? Maybe I need strange thing,...
View Articleautomatic Shutting down the host
Hi,I want to know if its possible to automatic Shutting down the host when a special VM shuts down?Thanks
View ArticleVM search tools
Do we have any tool for searching VM and host in different VC'sspme thing similar to RV tools.
View ArticleTimeout error while waiting for VMware Tools to start in the guest.
Hi, Running Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface and Set-VMGuestNetworkInterface through PowerCLI 5.0.1 and getting the following error: Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface : 3/26/2012 11:04:03 AM...
View ArticleDeleting historical vmware-*.log files
I would like to run a script at the top level of a given datastore (with multiple VM folders in it) that will go through each VM directory and delete all historical vmware-**.log files that may exist...
View ArticleHow to automate adding guest to host inventory when host managed by vCenter
I want to be able to programmattically add virtual machines to the inventory of vCenter. I.e. I don't want to have to add them interactively via the vSphere gui. The following KB article says that...
View ArticleDashboard for esxi infra
Hi All,I have vCenter across location and we need to get the report weekly about the number of host, vm's , performance, changes done from last week to current week. such all report. How do i get these...
View ArticleHow to run powecli via jmeter
hi all, I am new to vmware/powercli. Is there a way to run powercli via jmeter?I've tried running a powercli script (.ps1) via jmeter using the 'OS Process Sampler'but that did not work (the script...
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