Hi guru
Very very new to CLI so go easy on me
I would like to make this small script to a psc1 file that I can run from a scheduled task
connect-VIserver -server
$Vms=Get-folder 'path' | get-vm | where-object {$_.powerstate -eq "poweredoff"}
get-vm $vms | start-vm
can anyone point me in the right direction, please
Thanks a bunch
I have been trying to find a way to recompose our VDI Pools via PowerCli and find only references to old deprecated PowerCli commands.
Does anyone know how to kick off a recompose with the current version of PowerCli?
I created a localuser on 6.5 esxi server but cannot login as user
connect-viserver -server esxiserver -user root -password "mypass"
New-VMHostAccount -Id test -Password "mypass" -UserAccount -GrantShellAccess -Server esxiserver
new-vipermission -entity -principal test -role admin -server esxiserver
any idea?
I am having trouble finding the Get-VIEvent equivalent in the vcenter and vcenter server API.
Am I missing something?
Or is it not there, YET?
Hi
I am trying to fetch a registry value for AV. The reg value of agentguid is in different locations for 32bit and 64bit OS.
Here I want the information like if the OS is 64-bit write the reg value if not check for 32 bit path and write the value.
One more step if the OS is neither 32-bit or 64-bit and doesn't find the any registry value it should check the "McAfee Framework Service" and write the status.
32-Bit: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Network Associates\ePolicy Orchestrator\Agent\]
64-Bit: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Network Associates\ePolicy Orchestrator\Agent\]
$testcode = @'
$text = Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Network Associates\ePolicy Orchestrator\Agent\" |%{"$($_.AgentGUID)"} -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if(-not $text){ $text = Get-Service -Name "McAfee Framework Service" | %{"$($_.Name) is $($_.Status)"}
}
$text
'@
$testout=Invoke-VMScript -VM "VM1" -GuestUser "administrator" -GuestPassword "admin@123" -ScriptText $testcode -ScriptType Powershell -ErrorAction Stop | Select -ExpandProperty ScriptOutput
$testout
Output for 64bit:
Hello folks,
I encountered error today on my code as shown error msg below, can someone help me on this pls?
Am trying to connect to multiple vcenter servers assigned to $VIServer variable.
Error:
Connect-VIServer : Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed.
At C:\PS_SCRIPTS\berns\getvminfo.ps1:30 char:1
+ Connect-VIServer $VIServer -User $user -Password $pass -WarningAction
SilentlyCo ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Connect-VIServer], UriFormatE
xception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.UriFormatException,VMware.VimAutomation.V
iCore.Cmdlets.Commands.ConnectVIServer
Snippet:
# Credential
$user="dom\testid"
$pass="pass"
# All current Virtual Centers to check
$VIServer="vc1, vc2, vc3"
# Connect to Virtual Center servers
Connect-VIServer $VIServer -User $user -Password $pass -WarningAction SilentlyContinue |out-Null
In our production environment administrators need to use smart cards to authenticate. I'm trying to automate some recomposes via a powercli script and can't figure out a way to get the script to connect. Has anyone run into this?
Good afternoon;
Have modified this script originally created by Lucd. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to get a grand total in GB the disk capacity for each vm. Any all input would be appreciated.
Thank you
Norm
$VmInfo = ForEach ($Datacenter in (Get-Datacenter)) {
ForEach ($VM in ($Datacenter | Get-VM | sort | where {$_.powerstate -match "on"} | Get-VMGuest)) {
$vm | Select @{N="VM_NAME#";E={$vm.Hostname}} ,
@{N="VM_CPU_Core#";E={$VM.VM.NumCPU}},
@{N="VM_MemoryGB";E={$VM.VM.MemoryGB}},
@{N="VM_DiskGB";E={$VM.VM.Extensiondata.Guest.Disk.capacity}},
@{N="VM_IP#";E={$vm.IPAddress}},
@{N="VM_OS";E={$vm.OSFullName}},
@{N="VM_DC";E={$Datacenter.name}},
@{N='VM_Cluster';E={(Get-Cluster -VM $VM.VM).Name}},
@{N="VM_NOTES";E={$VM.VM.Notes}},
@{N='VM_Annotations';E={(Get-Annotation -Entity $VM.VM).Value}}
}
}
$VmInfo | Export-Csv -Path "d:\powershell_temp\report_vm_notes.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
I'm trying to add a new PV SCSI controller to a VM without having to power off the VM and use new-scsicontroller.
I can't get my head around the correct items I need to provide to the spec using "New-Object = VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec" etc, I've found a few helpful articles online but it always seems to just attempt to modify scsi0 and throws an error, rather than adding a new controller.
Can anyone help?
Hi
I am trying to fetch windows hotfix installed status for multiple versions.Here the problem is the Hotfix number is not same to all the versions of windows. -Like (kb4056897 is for windows 2k8r2 which is not same for win2k12)
with the below script I can able get only one hotfix details at once. -Like (For kb4056897 it will invoke the script for all the windows machines and write the output for only 2k8r2 as this hotfix belongs to 2k8r2). So is there any possibility to pass multiple hotfix numbers in one variable ($hotfix=kb4056897,kb4056894 )and pass this cmd (Get-WmiObject -Class "win32_quickfixengineering") and search the hotfix numbers which we given in $hotfix and write the output.
$script = @'
$hotfixinfo=Get-WmiObject -Class "win32_quickfixengineering" |?{$_.HotFixID -eq "KB4049011"}|%{"$($_.HotFixID) is installed on $($_.InstalledOn)"}
$hotfixinfo
'@
Invoke-VMScript -VM $vm.name -GuestCredential $password1 -ScriptText $script -ScriptType Powershell -ErrorAction Stop | Select -ExpandProperty ScriptOutput Hi,
On a Windows 2016 server running PowerShell 5.1, I get the following error when calling Get-VIEvent:
get-vievent : 8/23/2017 5:15:07 PM Get-VIEvent Error in deserializing body of reply message for operation 'RetrieveProperties'.
At line:1 char:1
+ get-vievent
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-VIEvent], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.GetEvent
It works fine on a server running Windows 2012 r2 and PowerShell 5.
Thanks,
Joel
I have a template that I need to roll out multiple times through PowerCli.
The template has three seperate virtual disks.
I want the first disk to be on a DatastoreA and I want disks two and three to be stored on DatastoreB.
I now simply clone everything using this command:
new-vm -name MyNewVM -template MyTemplate
Can anyone point me in the right direction for specifying the datastore on a per-disk level?
Thanks!
Hello all,
I'm tasked with creating a script to invoke the suspension of over 50 VM's (all Win2012r2) in a very narrow timeframe (probably between 5-8 minutes) following a UPS event.hutfown
Suspend over shutdown is the preferred option, but as there's no -RunAsync switch for this, I'd be grateful for any advice anyone could offer as to how to achieve this.pped
I have this snippet for the SQL boxes working fine, but the servers suspend in sequence, rather than simultaneously.
$vms = Get-VM
Foreach ($vm in $vms){
if ((Get-View $vm).Name -match "SQL"){
Write-Host $vm.Name, " => " , (Get-View $vm).Guest.GuestFullName
Get-VM $vm | Suspend-VMGuest -Confirm: $false
}
}
Many thanks,
Tim
Dear Community,
We are in a situation where vMotion doesn't work with some of our VMs.
This is related to:
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2080107
(vMotion of virtual machine fails with the error: The destination host is not compatible with the hardware version to which the virtual machine is scheduled to be upgraded)
I'm a PowerCLI beginner and I'm looking for a script that can list all VMs which have the following strings in their vmx:
virtualHW.scheduledUpgrade.when
virtualHW.scheduledUpgrade.state
tools.upgrade.policy
This is the script I came up with so far:
Get-VM | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name "[setting_name]" |
Select @{N="VM";E={$_.Entity.Name}},Name,Value | Format-Table -AutoSize
I have 2 issues/questions with my script:
1) I can't seem to find what's the correct name of the settings I need to use in my script.
2) When testing the script with another setting, for ex. ctkEnabled, I get a list but the name of lots of VMs is hidden:
VM Name Value
-- ---- -----
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
VMtest1 ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
VMtest2 ctkEnabled TRUE
ctkEnabled TRUE
Thanks in advance for your help.
We have previously had a script in place for some time that pulls our inventory plus a single annotation field. We run extracts weekly for sharing the state of our datacenter, but now we are adding additional annotation fields. As much as I've looked online I can't seem to properly add multiple annotation fields so that they show up as columns in the extracted CSV.
Previously we only looked to get the VM-Owner annotation now we are looking for things like Application, LastConfirmed, etc etc.
Here is our previous script,
add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
Connect-VIServer -Server XXXXXX -User XXXXXXX -Password XXXXXX
$targetCA = 'VM-Owner'
$report = @()
foreach($vm in Get-VM){
$row = [ordered]@{
VM = $vm.Name
Hostname = $vm.Guest.Hostname
IPAddress = $vm.guest.IPAddress[0]
CPU = $vm.NumCpu
RAM = ($vm.MemoryGB * 1024)
OperatingSystem = $vm.Guest.OSFullName
PowerState = $vm.PowerState
}
Get-Annotation -Entity $vm | where{$targetCA -contains $_.Name} | %{
$row.Add($_.Name,$_.Value)
}
$report += New-Object PSOBject -Property $row
}
$report | Export-Csv 'c:\temp\scripts\export\vSphere_Export.csv' -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
Whenever we perform EOW of storage array controller, we are performing datastore migration from OLD datastore to NEW datastore.
After migraion, we are informing Storage team to reclaim those LUNs during that stage, they always double check with us, whether these LUNs can be reclaimed or not. We used to manually check, if these LUNs are detached or not and confirming them.
Always they used to give us LUN ID as below
isrtpxiv32 7811090_01e2 (thp_474) RAID1 1 4388000
isrtpxiv32 7811090_0d8d (thp_630) RAID1 4 4388000
isrtpxiv32 7811090_3b44 (thp_606) RAID1 2 4388000
isrtpxiv32 7811090_3b45 (thp_607) RAID1 3 4388000
Where LUN ID is = 01e2, 0d8d 3b44 3b45 and NAA ID will have these strings ex: NAA.6742b0f0000004530000000000003b45, NAA.6742b0f0000004530000000000003b44.
Now i want to automate this to avoid manual error.
Whenever they give as LUN ID, i would like to check, those string contains LUN(NAA ID) is in place or detached.
Please help me on this.
I'm looking to create a script that outputs a table of our hundreds of datastores, showing all the datastores:
The script needs to query multiple vCenters and would output something along the lines of:
vCenter Name | Cluster Name | Datastore Name | Datastore capacity (GB) | Datastore capacity (%) | Datastore Provisioned (%)
The script below explains what I want to do, but I don't know how to pull the data from both the get-Cluster and get-Datastore commands...
$report = Foreach($vcin$global:DefaultVIServers){
foreach($dcinGet-Datacenter-Server$vc){
Get-Cluster-Server$vc| Get-Datastore
Select @{N='vCenter Name';E={$vc.Name}},
@{N='Cluster';E={$_.Name}},
@{N='Datastore Name';E={ds.Name}},
@{N='Datastore Capacity (GB)';E={ds.CapacityinGB}},
@{N='Datastore Capacity (%)';E={ds.CapacityinPC}},
@{N='Datastore Provisioned (%)';E={ds.ProvisionedSpaceinPC}},
}
}
$report | Export-CSV C:\Scripts\vCenterClusterDatastoreInfo.csv
To help us understand where to move in the future and what versions of PowerShell people are currently using on production machines please help by letting us know what version of PowerShell you currently use.
$psversiontable.PSVersion
Thanks
PowerCLI Team