delete clones older than x days
Hi Guys, I am trying to create a ps script that will be used to clone a VM and as part of the script only keep two instances of the clones. This is the code i have at the moment but i am struggling to...
View ArticleHow to schedule vmare healh check report...
Dear Team, I just want to know how to automate "Health chck report.ps1". automate execution of "Health Check report.ps1" and send report on email. regardsMr VMware
View ArticleWindows 2008R2 sysprep Error [msoobe.exe] Failed to install product key
I'm cloning Windows 2008R2 with PowerCLI on ESXi 5.0. On the clone, setuperr.log in C:\Windows\Panther\UnattendGC has the following error:2013-02-01 15:49:13, Error [msoobe.exe] Failed to install...
View ArticleFind the Desktops a user is assigned to in VMware View via PowerCLI
Basically I am looking to do what the Subject says, My only addition is the user running the script may not know what Pool the desktop is currently in. I am looking to automate the replacement of...
View ArticleCold migration of Vms from one Datacenter to another
I am trying to cold migrate VMs from a host in DatacenterA to a host in DatacenterB both datacenters are managed by the same Vcenter server. I have followed the RelocateVM method from LucD and...
View ArticleNew-VIProperty Config.Host.Value InvalidProperty
vCenter 4.1 Update 2PowerCLI 5.1 Release 1 I can successfully retrieve VMHost's IDs via: Get-VMHost | Select Name,@{N='VMHostID';E={$_.ExtensionData.Config.Host.Value}} I can also (appear) to...
View ArticleHow to manage VM Ware Infrastructure Using Wnidows Power Shell
Hi, can any one post link of any pdf/blog etc that can teach How to manage VM Ware Infrastructure Using Wnidows Power Shell, from basics. If anyone have link for this pdf or pdf itself, please share....
View Articlevmotion -- dry run through powercli
greetings, folks --- my Requirement: in order to make sure that all VMs actually get migrated off the host when I place the host in maint mode -- I would like a validation check across all the VMs in...
View ArticleAnswer file for host profile questions
All, Looking at creating a hash table from the powercli reference book (luc/alan's) but having some issues. I am running this command to get the hash table: $AdditionalConfiguration =...
View Articlevmnic link status
Hi, I need a powercli script which will check the link (up or down) and speed (1000 MB) of each vmnic connected to each vswitch of each esx server in our environment. Please help.
View ArticlevSphere PowerCLI 4.1.1 Poster has landed.....
Folks, Latest version of the world famous PowerCLI Poster. Special thanks to our PowerCLI VIP Members and the PowerCLI engineering team. New Features: - New commandlets for 4.1.1 highlighted in blue-...
View Articlevm - get-NetworkAdapter
How can I modify this to only show me vm's on specific NetworkNames?This little script gives me the vms on all vlans. eg: vlan564,vlan566,vlan567 get-cluster MYCLUSTER |Get-VM | Get-NetworkAdapter...
View ArticleBest Practices Regarding Invoke-VMScript
We're using Invoke-VMScript to run batch scripts on our VMs in a blocking manner. Some of these scripts take ~1 hour to run. We're running into issues where randomly we'll see Power-CLI disconnects or...
View ArticleGet System Boot Device
I know you can get the system boot device using ESXCLI like this: esxcli system boot device get Boot Filesystem UUID: Boot NIC: 01-23-45-67-89-ab-cd Stateless Boot NIC: or you can do ESXCLI via...
View Articleremove-vm doesn't delete from inventory
Hi Experts, I'm trying to remove a vm from the host inventory as well as disk but it fails to delete from the inventory. So when I try to re-create the vm with the same name it fails with VM name...
View ArticleIs there a way to restart a Windows VM with Last-Known-Good state via PowerCLI
I would like to know if there is a way to do that using a PowerCLI script. Thx!
View ArticleGet all VMs in givencluster on specific datastore
Hi, I need help filtering all VMs in a given Cluster which are located on specific datastores. What I've go so far: List all VMs in a given cluster:Get-Cluster TEST-CLUSTER | Get-VM List all VMs on...
View ArticlePowerCLI 5.1 problem - Set-VM "Index was outside the bounds of the array"
Hello,We have a problem with vSphere PowerCLI 5.1 Release 1 build 793510. We have a user - "test_user" in our vCenter Server to which we provide administrative permissions only on resource pool -...
View ArticlePowercli script to list cluster Name, Guest and Hostname in Cluster
Greetings, I need Powercli script to list cluster Name, Guest and ESXi Hostnames in Cluster, then export to a csv file Thanks
View ArticleModify the existing script.
$vCenter = Read-host -prompt "Enter the vCenter hostname"connect-viserver -server $vCenter -Credential (Get-Credential)$cluster=read-host -prompt "Enter the cluster Name"$naa.id=read-host -prompt...
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