Hi all

Is there a way to list the HA restart priority for all the VMs in a cluster? Maybe with PowerCLI?

I found some information about a powershell possibility for ESXi 5.1/vSphere 5.1 but I'm still running 4.1.

I found something in the community but I was not able to add a command to export it into a list. Copy/paste is a possibility but not a great automation level.

$cluster = Get-Cluster MyCluster
Write-Host "Default VM restart" $cluster.HARestartPriority

if($cluster.ExtensionData.Configuration.DasVmConfig){
  $cluster.ExtensionData.Configuration.DasVmConfig | %{
    Write-Host "VM" (Get-View $_.Key).Name "Restart priority" $_.RestartPriority
  }
}

Can anyone help me?

Thanks!

Remo

Hi All ,

I have a Vcenter Setup and having one ESXi host . When i am trying to clone a VM residing in the ESXi via Powercli , its giving error not able to find storage datastore1 . Below is the command i gave from vCenter .
Powercli > New-VM -name clone1 -Datastore datastore1 -VM <sourcevm name>  -VMHost <ESXI name>

New- New-VM Unable to get objects by name: server <ESXI name> not connected .

New-VM : New-VM Could not find StorageResource w
ith name 'datastore1'.

But I was able to do the cloning from Vsphere GUI .

Note : Datastore1 is local storage in ESXi host .

Regards

Deb

Afternoon,

We are building a new vCenter 5.1 Environment.  Want to duplicate the VM Folder structure from the 4.1 vCenter (Folders under INVENTORY>VMs and TEMPLATES).  All we need are the folders and Sub Folder Structure.

VCENTER >

     DATACENTER>

               PARENT FOLDER 1>

                    SUB FOLDER 1>

                    SUB FOLDER 2>

               PARENT FOLDER 2>

                    SUB FOLDER 1>

                    SUB FOLDER 2>

Etc etc...

How would it be the best aproach to do this with PowerCLI?

I have seen a few other posts on this topic, most involved a VM Audit, which is not what we need.  Just the complete Folder Structure of a 4.1 vCenter (including all sub folders).  Nothing Else.

Goals:

1. Export the full list to file (assuming its a CSV file).
2. Import the list from the file to the new 5.1 vCenter.

Thanks,

BostonTechGuy.

This script:

1.     Connects to VC entered by user.

2.     Reads virtual machine names from a csv.

3.     Sets vCPU, memory.

4.     Sets video memory (from function - Thanks Alan).

5.     Sets CPU/MMU to software.

6.     Powers on VM.

7.     Disconnects from VC.

Interested in any feedback on if this could be arranged differently or made more efficient.

Also, interested in how to get rid of this type feedback in the console during this line.

Set-VM -VM $vm.Name -NumCpu 2 -MemoryMB 4096 -confirm:$false -RunAsync

---Unwanted output to console---

Client                  :
CmdletTaskInfo          :
ExtensionData           :
Id                      :
IsCancelable            : False
Result                  :
Name                    :
Description             :
State                   : Running
PercentComplete         : 0
StartTime               : 4/30/2013 1:29:26 PM
FinishTime              :
ObjectId                :
Uid                     : /Local=/ClientSideTask=79a12755-2588-4699-8765-69c82c762224/
NonTerminatingErrorList : {}
TerminatingError        :

------Script------

. .\function.ps1

$curvc = read-host -prompt "Enter VC Name"
connect-viserver -server $curvc

$vms = Import-CSV .\name.csv

foreach ($vm in $vms){
Set-VM -VM $vm.Name -NumCpu 2 -MemoryMB 4096 -confirm:$false -RunAsync
Get-VM $vm.Name | Set-VMVideoMemory -MemoryMB 128 -Autodetect $false
Get-VM -Name $vm.Name | Get-View | foreach {
    $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
    $spec.flags = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineFlagInfo
    $spec.flags.VirtualMMuUsage = "off"
$spec.flags.virtualExecUsage = "hvOff"
    $taskMoRef = $_.ReconfigVM_Task($spec)
Start-VM -VM $vm.Name -Confirm:$false
}
}

disconnect-viserver * -confirm:$false

----Function----

function Set-VMVideoMemory {
<# .SYNOPSIS   Changes the video memory of a VM .DESCRIPTION   This function changes the video memory of a VM .NOTES  
#Source: http://virtu-al.net   Author: Alan Renouf   Version: 1.1 .PARAMETER VM   Specify the virtual machine .PARAMETER MemoryMB  
#Specify the memory size in MB .EXAMPLE   PS> Get-VM VM1 | Set-VMVideoMemory -MemoryMB 4 -AutoDetect $false
#>

  Param (
    [parameter(valuefrompipeline = $true, mandatory = $true, HelpMessage = "Enter a vm entity")]
    [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.VirtualMachineImpl]$VM,
    [int64]$MemoryMB,
[bool]$AutoDetect,
[int]$NumDisplays
   )

  Process {
$VM | Foreach {
  $VideoAdapter = $_.ExtensionData.Config.Hardware.Device | Where {$_.GetType().Name -eq "VirtualMachineVideoCard"}
  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
  $Config = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec
  $Config.device = $VideoAdapter
  If ($MemoryMB) {
   $Config.device.videoRamSizeInKB = $MemoryMB * 1KB
  }
  If ($AutoDetect) {
   $Config.device.useAutoDetect = $true
  } Else {
   $Config.device.useAutoDetect = $false
  }
  Switch ($NumDisplays) {
   1{ $Config.device.numDisplays = 1}
   2{ $Config.device.numDisplays = 2}
   3{ $Config.device.numDisplays = 3}
   4{ $Config.device.numDisplays = 4}
   Default {}
  }
  $Config.operation = "edit"
  $spec.deviceChange += $Config
  $VMView = $_ | Get-View
  Write-Host "Setting Video Display for $($_)"
  $VMView.ReconfigVM($spec)
}
  }
}

Hi,

i am trying to find a script to collect / backup the network configuration of vcenter hosts/guests before doing a tools upgrade any suggestions

Thanks

Sastry

#$e = get-esxcli -vmhost esx1

#$lun = get-content lun.txt

Any idea on Equivalent to esxcli storage core device set --state=off -d naa.xx

#$lun | {$e.storage.core.device.set($on, ($_), $off)}

Hello VMGurus,

I am using following link to get vm information and it's working

http://communities.vmware.com/message/2100780#2100780

the only problem is I am not getting the guest OS edition and version, using this script I am getting OS which I've selected during the creation of VM.

is there any way that we can incorporate wmi caption in this script and get exact OS edition and version like in wmi caption?

thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,

Samir.

So if I have

PowerCLI P:\My Documents> nslookup mickeymouse
Server:  lookup.mycompany.com
Address:  192.56.45.90

Name:    mickeymouse.mycompany.com
Address:  192.30.2.4

So with the above information, is it even possible to query a nslookup and populate the IP into a variable.

$ip

So what I am wanting  is to just to have to input the hostname of the vm I intend to create and have it query  to pull its address. Is it possible, is there something better than nslookup?

I know of how to get it this way but I do not know how to just pull the exact IP and not the other parts of the string....

PowerCLI P:\My Documents $test =  [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses("vmname01") |select IPADDRESSToString
PowerCLI P:\My Documents\ Write-Host $test
@{IPAddressToString=192.30.2.4}

I need just in my variable...

192.30.2.4

Hello,

I have the following instruction:

get-vm server* | select name,UsedSpaceGB,VMhost,guest | ft -auto

but the usedspace gb is like this 104.06407394539564847946166992

How can i set it to 104.06 ?

I can successfully connect to vCenter 5.1, vCenter 4.1, and ESX 4.1 hosts with PowerCLI 5.1 release 1, but when I try to connect to ESXi 5.1 hosts using the same credentials I get the error:

Is there a special setting that I need to enable on the ESXi 5.1 servers to allow PowerCLI connections?

Apologies if this has been asked before...

Is it possible to set the cpuid.coresPerSocket advanced configuration using PowerCLI?

I had a script that went through and was able to unmount and then detached datastore in 5.0.  now the update to powercli 5.1 has dropped the following functions and wondering if there is a better way to do this.

unmount-datastore

detach-datastore

So here's a challenge that I seem to be needing a little bit of help with.

Basically I what I'm trying to do is trigger an alarm in vCenter when the Host USB Configuration has changed, once that alarm is triggered I want to run a PowerCLI or any script for that matter to detect if that USB config change had anything to do with a UPS that I have plugged into the host.  If it did (meaning the UPS was either unplugged and/or moved to a different USB Port) I want to go through the process of re-adding the UPS usb device through to the VM.

So, I've gotten as far as triggering and alarm, and determining the connection status of the UPS's USB connection.  What I can't seem to do is figure out how to re-add the usb device if it was moved to a different port.  I tried using ONYX to gen some code for me, however it appears I need to know what the device.backing.deviceName is - something along the lines of "path:2/0/7 version:2" - which would obviously change depeding on what usb port it was plugged into...

So any help on either adding a USB device to a VM through PowerCLI or vCO or any sort of CLI fashion would be great

or

if at the very least I could poll the host's USB devices to see what was connected to what port that might get me through as well..

make sense?

Thanks,

Mike

Hi Guys,

I am trying to pull VM configuration details out of vCenter and am not having much luck with multicore vCPU machines.

When looking at lists of Virtual Machines within vSphere Client, it offers a basic "CPU Count" column and does not provide any further granularity (i.e. in terms of sockets & cores as opposed to just "CPU Count").

I thought perhaps I may have more luck using PowerCLI and for the most part, the "Get-VM" cmdlet has the type of information I am looking for, however I find it is somewhat lacking when it comes to vCPU details.  Essentially it turns out not to be much better than the Virtual Machine list in vSphere Client as it only produces a "Num CPUs" value, which isn't particularly useful.

For example, if "Num CPUs" is 4, what does "4" mean?  It could mean any one of the following:

• 1 x 4 core
  
• 2 x 2 core
  
• 4 x 1 core
  

I am hoping someone out there can assist with me producing a list of VMs with configuration details that includes both sockets & cores for vCPU?

Thanks in advance!

I am trying to write a script to get all the vms in a set of clusters and the datastores they are on with the amount of datastore freespace. For some reason it is getting ALL the vms on the datastores.

 

$ServerName = "servername"

$report = @()

$cl_filter_pattern = "*PCI"

$digits = 2

Connect-VIServer $ServerName

foreach($cluster in Get-Cluster | where {$_.name -like $cl_filter_pattern}){

    Get-VMHost -Location $cluster | Get-Datastore | %{

        $vms = $cluster | Get-VM

foreach ($vm in $vms){

$info = "" | select DataCenter, Cluster, Datastore, VM, Capacity, Provisioned, Available, PercFree

             $info.Datacenter = $_.Datacenter

             $info.Cluster = $cluster.Name

             $info.Datastore = $_.Name

$info.VM = $vm.Name

             $info.Capacity = [math]::Round($_.capacityMB/1024,2)

             $info.Provisioned = [math]::Round(($_.ExtensionData.Summary.Capacity - $_.ExtensionData.Summary.FreeSpace + $_.ExtensionData.Summary.Uncommitted)/1GB,2)

             $info.Available = [math]::Round($info.Capacity - $info.Provisioned,2)

$info.PercFree = [math]::Round(100*$_.FreeSpaceMB/$_.CapacityMB,$digits)

             $report += $info

}

    }

}

$report | Export-Csv "C:\datastore-vms.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture

Disconnect-VIServer $ServerName -Confirm:$false

 

Where am I going wrong?

Good Day, As part of the post cloning process I run a command that Enables the Nic and sets the correct Port-Group. I have put a sleep command in and each environment is diferrent so I always end up changing this sleep time because the cloning process does not complete in the sleep time frame and the rest of the script fails. So in an effort to get rid of the sleep command I want to capture the CloneVM_Task and pass that parameter to Wait-Task which will force the completion of the ClonVM_Task. I could just ensure no other tasks are running but this task but as we all know that can not alays be the case. So this is what I have done.

I Start a Deploy of OVF to have another long task running. Then I run the script.

if ( (Get-PSSnapin -Name Vmware.VimAutomation.Core -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null ) {Add-PSSnapin "Vmware.VimAutomation.Core"}

# Virtual Center Details
$server_address = "MYvCenter Name or IP"

Connect-VIServer -server $server_Address -user username -pass password -WarningAction SilentlyContinue

#Create Master VM Templates
#
# Here we are Importing the CSV file with the Account information and Piping it into a Foreach-object
# Creating a Variable that imports the csv file that holds all the Virtual machine data

cd 'e:\Scripts'
$InputFile = Import-Csv "E:\scripts\mycloneinput.csv"
$InputFile | ForEach-Object {

  $ip = $_.VM_IPAddress
  $GName = $_.VM_Guestname
  $TName = $_.Template_Name
  $HName = Get-VMHost "myhostname" # Select First 1
  $Desc = $_.Description
  $Dstore = $_.Datastore_Name
  $Spec = $_.Customization
  $Folder = $_.Folder
  $Sfolder = $_.Subfolder
  $NIC = $_.NIC
  $NIC_Lable = $_.NIC_Label
  $Gateway = $_.NIC_Gateway
  $SubnetMask = "255.255.255.0"
  $DNS1 = $_.DNS1
  $DNS2 = $_.DNS2

Write-host "Creating:" $GName
Write-host "Template name is:" $TName

# This takes the variables and creates the Virtual machine
    Get-OSCustomizationSpec $Spec | Get-OSCustomizationNicMapping |`
    Set-OSCustomizationNicMapping -IpMode UseStaticIP -IpAddress $ip -SubnetMask $SubnetMask -DNS $DNS1,$DNS2 -DefaultGateway $Gateway
    New-VM -Name $GName -Location $Folder -Template $TName -Host $HName -Datastore $Dstore -Description $Desc -OSCustomizationSpec $Spec -RunAsync -Confirm:$false
          
    #######################################
    #Waiting for cloning Process to finish            #
    #######################################

     $$$  Below notes show a little history of how I got to this point.

     $$$Note1: The first attempt I just captured the Running tasks and passed them to the Wait-Task. Well since both Deploy-OVF and ClonVM_Task where running it would wait until both where completed before finishing."

     $$$Note2: So then I added the If Else loop below which failed because $RTask never equaled just CloneVM_Task but was an array of two.

     $$$Note3: I tried to us the following to split the two tasks using

          ### $RTask = Get-Task -Status Running (Which captured  the two running Tasks)

          ### $Array = $Rtask.Split(" ") (Which Errored with Method invocation failed because [System.Object[]] doesn't contain a method named 'Split'.)
                         ### So I Tried to split the array like this. ForEach ($Task in $Rtask.Name -Split(" ")) { Write-Host "My Tasks are:" $Task}

    Get-Task -Status Running | Export-CSV "E:\scripts\Current_Tasks.csv"
    $InputFile2 = Import-CSV "E:\scripts\mmca\mmca_Current_Tasks.csv"
    $InputFile2 | Foreach-Object {
        $RTask = $_.Name
        Write-Host "Current task is:" $RTask
    IF ($RTask -eq "CloneVM_Task") {
        Write-Host "Current Clonning task is:" $RTask
        Write-Host "Waiting for the cloning Process to complete"
        Wait-task -task $MyTask
    }
    Else {
        Write-Host "No Cloning processes are running"
    }
}  
    
# This enables the nic and set the correct Port Group
Get-VM -name $GName | Get-NetworkAdapter -Name $NIC | Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName $NIC_Lable -confirm:$false -StartConnected $true
     
}

When I run this I get the following:

####This shows the Clonning Task Starting#####

erverId        : /VIServer=root@10.79.19.22:443/
State           : Running
IsCancelable    : True
PercentComplete : 5
StartTime       : 05/03/2013 00:52:13
FinishTime      :
ObjectId        : VirtualMachine-vm-382
Result          :
Description     : Clone virtual machine
ExtensionData   : VMware.Vim.Task
Id              : Task-task-2070
Name            : CloneVM_Task
Uid             : /VIServer=root@10.79.19.22:443/Task=Task-task-2070/

#########################################################

####Runs through the Running Tasks###

Current task is: Deploy OVF template
No Cloning processes are running

##### Skips the Deploy Task#####

#####Matches the If Statement and continues to process####
Current task is: CloneVM_Task
Current Clonning task is: CloneVM_Task
Waiting for the cloning Process to complete

#####Error#####

Wait-Task : Cannot bind parameter 'Task'. Cannot convert the "CloneVM_Task" value of type "System.String" to type "VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk.Types.V1.Task".
At E:\scripts\Working_Create_Master_Templates.ps1:71 char:24
+         Wait-task -task <<<<  $RTask
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Wait-Task], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.WaitTask

$$$  Below notes show a little history of how I got to this point.

Note1: The first attempt I just captured the Running tasks and passed them to the Wait-Task. Well since both Deploy-OVF and ClonVM_Task where running it would wait until both where completed before finishing."

Note2: So then I added the If Else loop below which failed because $RTask never equaled just CloneVM_Task but was an array of two tasks.

Note3: I tried to use the following to split the two tasks:

          $RTask = Get-Task -Status Running (Which captured  the two running Tasks)

          foreach ($Task in $Rtask -Split(" "))
         {
                  Write-Host "My Tasks are:" $Task}
                   IF ($Task -eq "CloneVM_Task") {
                            Write-Host "Current Clonning task is:" $Task
                            Write-Host "Waiting for the cloning Process to complete"
                            Wait-task -task $Task
                    }
                   Else {
                            Write-Host "No Cloning processes are running"
                       }

  
          }

####Output from the little script above###

Current task is: Deploy OVF template CloneVM_Task
My Tasks are: Deploy
My Tasks are: OVF
My Tasks are: template
My Tasks are: CloneVM_Task
Current Clonning task is: CloneVM_Task
Waiting for the cloning Process to complete
Wait-Task : Cannot bind parameter 'Task'. Cannot convert the "CloneVM_Task" value of type "System.String" to type "VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk.Types.V1.Task".
At line:11 char:24
+         Wait-task -task <<<<  $Task
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Wait-Task], ParameterBindingException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.WaitTask

   I am new to Powercli and I have been scouring Google for a possible answer. I thought I might have had a solution that was posted on the VMware PowerCLI Forum but I could not get that to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

#########################################

    I wasn't worried about how the Tasks where split, Unless I was trying to track the import fo the OVF, so the script went into the If loop and since one of the names matched CloneVM_Task then it processed. But i received the same error as I did in the current version of the script above. That is why I have the curent version thinking if I exported and then imported the tasks it might make a difference.

   I am new to Powercli and would like a little help. I am either very close or off by a mile. :-)

Thanks,

Mitch

I have a  vm creation script that I modified to be able to be able to run in a loop using a CSV file to create more than one VM at a time. My initial script would send me an email stating for example:

The problem I want to try and figure out is how can I get ALL tthe VM's to report on one single email report. Right now since it is looping, every VM I create will send out a report. So if I set it up to build 4 vm's, it will send 4 emails.. I don't like that.

How my script works pretty much...

foreach($var in $vmlist){

script here

...

...

...

######################## Create and Send Email Report - Start ###############################################
#
Function Create-HTMLTable {
  param([array]$Array)
  $arrHTML = $Array | ConvertTo-Html
  $arrHTML[-1] = $arrHTML[-1].ToString().Replace(‘</body></html>’,"")
  Return $arrHTML[5..2000]
}

$output = @()
$output += '<html><head></head><body><style>table{border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-size:8pt;background-color:#ccc;width:100%;}th{text-align:left;}td{background-color:#fff;width:20%;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;}body{font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;}h1{font-size:12pt;}h2{font-size:10pt;}</style>'
$output += ‘<H2>The vms that were created</H2>'
$output += ‘<H2> </H2>'
#$Report = @()
$Report = New-Object -TypeName system.collections.arraylist
  foreach ($vm in get-vm -Name $var.myvms )
   {
...

...

...

...

...
  $report.add($reportedvm)|out-null

}

if ($HTML -eq "yes") {
  $output += '<p>'
  $output += '<p>'
  $output += Create-HTMLTable $report  $output += '</p>'
  $output += '</body></html>'
  $output | Add-Content $FileHTML
}
if ($SendEmail -eq "yes") {
$body = Get-Content $FileHTML | out-String
Send-MailMessage –From $EmailFrom –To $EmailTo –Subject $EmailSubject –SmtpServer $EmailSMTP -Body $body -BodyAsHtml }
#

}

Hi All,

I know that my query really to PS related in general, but since what I am trying to do is centred on the vSphere 4.1 environment someone might have done it before.

I love LucD's script to gain metrics of my VMs in terms of disk, cpu and memory, like http://communities.vmware.com/message/2039937, http://www.lucd.info/2011/07/08/powercli-vsphere-statistics-part-5-rollup-types/ and http://www.lucd.info/2010/01/05/powercli-vsphere-statistics-part-2-come-together/. I am wanting to be able to export the information to a CSV for each VM, and have tried two different methods for getting this to work.

I tried changing the location in the script where the export occurs, and putting the variable for the name in the export file name, but even though the redefined variable is correct (I checked it via a write-host immediately prior to the export-csv) it doesn't pick up the name and continually overwrites the file with the next machines data.

I tried to change the script using a ForEach loop operating for each machine in the array defined by entities, and running the report against each entity and then using a select statement to get the information I need. Again I tried using the name defined by $_.Group[0].Entity.Name in the select, in the export-csv command. Again it seems to ignore the definition for the VM name and overwrites the data within the same file.

Has anyone tried what I am attempting to know if it is possible?

Geoff