New-VM hangs during background job
I'm writing a script to automate some vm deployment and am having some issues with a background job. If I run the code below, the new-vm command hangs and does not ever complete the job. I have to...
View ArticlePowercli Script to configure vCenter Alarms
Hello,I need to configure vCenter Alams on around 15 vCenters. Can anyone please provide me powercli script for vCenter 5.5 and 6.0 to configure these Alarms.Regards,VD
View ArticleFind advanced vm settings
I need to see which vm advanced settings exist on a set of vms. I have a file with a list of advanced settings in csv format as below. How can I list these settings out for a vm? by default I think...
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Date from annotation comparison
Hi, I have to compare today's date +15d with date read from VM annotation. Here is the code for today + 15d: $Date = Get-Date -format "dd/MM/yyyy"$Date = [datetime]$Date$inTwoWeeks = $Date.AddDays(15)...
View ArticleSnapshots
Hello everyone, I am looking for a script that will create a snapshot and will send me an email with any that failed and any that were successful. I have a simple script but i need more than what i...
View ArticleGet-TagAssignment Entity includes custom field names (Bug?)
Our environment uses multiple CustomAttribute annotations on VMs. I've noticed that when I use Get-TagAssignment on VMs in our vCenter, the Entity object, which should be just a VM (VirtualMachineImpl)...
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Script to convert 100+ servers from Thick to Thin Format
Hi All,I know there is an option to convert a VM from Thick to Thin format through GUI. But sad part is we have to keep an eye on the progress , datastore and all. I have 100's+ of VMs which are in...
View ArticleOVFTool: vim API version: 6.0 - Panic: Win32 exception: Access Violation...
I have run across a problem using the below ovftool versions when uploading a VMX to Virtual Center 6.VMware ovftool 3.5.2 (build-1880279) <- windows Vmware workstation 10 ovftool...
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how to get vm's Host cpu mhz by PowerCLI
how to get vm's Host cpu mhz by PowerCLI thanks
View ArticleStorage DRS recommendations
Is there a way with PowerCLI to get the Storage DRS recommendations?
View ArticleNeed to remove advanced values from VMX file
Previous administrator elected to harden the VMX files of all VMs to prevent unwanted downtime from individuals installing VMware tools upgrades manually. I agree with him and understand in prior...
View ArticlePowerCLI 6.0 Get-VDPortGroup
I am in the process of using the Virtual Distributed Switch Cmdlets in doing so as I get my networks the results name now has a %2f in place of the / This to me seems like a bug in the cmdlet. Has...
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Storage DRS query VM Overrides per datastore cluster
Hi guys, I'm trying to get a report of VM's where storage drs is set to disabled.I'm able to get a list of VM's where status is manual but VM's where storage drs is set to disabled are not shown with...
View ArticleFind Virtual Machines with "Shared Folders" (HGFS) feature running
I am looking for some direction on creating a script to find all VM's with HGFS running, or where the feature is actually being used. Apparently VMware posted this Security advisory VMSA-2016-0001 |...
View ArticleImport-Module via scheduled task results in different $env:modulepath
Just upgraded to PowerCLI 6.0 R3Has anyone run into this? I was updating my scheduled task scripts to start importing the module rather than adding the snapins, but for some reason when task scheduler...
View ArticleSet starting directory in PowerCLI
So this may be a bit pedantic, but I'm sure others understand how you start trying to do something simple and it snowballs into a much larger issue. Well, I wanted to set the default directory I start...
View ArticleAutoDeploy Precreation of AnswerFiles
I have a basic AutoDeploy setup working for version 5.5I'm now trying to move to a seamless setup for when a host has not previously been added to vCenter and provide an answerfileI'm using Script to...
View Articleassistance with daily reports dump?
hello! wondering if anyone can help out with this. i'm trying to create a scheduled task that'll generate a daily report of all VMs in vcenter. the info i'm looking to include is... VM NameCPU...
View ArticleWeird error with Auto-Deploy and PowerCLI
Basically, I can create a new deploy rule for a given amount of time on a server before I have to rebuild it to get it to stop. I'm sure its some Windows patch, but im not sure where to start. Here's...
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Move configuration files with PowerCLI?
Hi, Is it possible to move a VMs configuration files with PowerCli? Currently I have a script to empty a datastore, which basically move all harddisks associated with this datastore to another one....
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