5.1 ESXi hosts via PowerCLI

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• Stop a host ESXi (free) via PowerCLI

  Please can someone tell if it is possible to use PowerCLI (in a Windows box) to stop a free VMware ESXi host is not a member of any vSphere infrastructure?

  If so, che, the PowerCLI script seem a guest VM in the same ESXi host, so that the script performs the following tasks:

  Issue a command to stop the ESXi host in 30 minutes

  • Deliver a comand to stop all VM clients
  • Issue a command to shutdown the Guest Windows itself in 5 minutes

  UIs here any question, I'm missing?

  Concerning

  Marius

  
  

  On the ESXI version free PowerCLI is limited to read-only (all cmdlets Get-) operations, I'm afraid.

  See KB2005377

• Host via PowerCLI hardware information

  Hello

  I have a list of information that I would like to get some of our guests.  I tried this pulling in PowerGUI and the VMWare Powerpack, but I'm having a problem with the fact that it will only cut down material information for one of the hosts (even if I have 40 hosts connected tab managed hosts).

  I obviously have a lot to learn in PowerCLI but I was hoping someone could provide advice on that.

  I have a list of hosts that I have to connect you with a built-in account and I want to pull down the following information in a CSV file or some sort of report:

  Host name

  Manufacturer / model

  Type of processor

  Number of CPUS / cores

  Processor speed

  CPU used

  Total memory

  Memory used

  ESXi version

  All of the above information is avalible in PowerGUI, but like I said I can it fire only one host at a time for some reason any.

  If possible, I'd like to be able to get the list of virtual machines on each host courses at the same time.

  I'd like some tips on it or maybe if someone has a little more experience with PowerGUI and could let me know why it will only fill the information for all my listed top host is.

  I found a few examples, I think I could crush all but I con ' t find a way to define a name of user and password specific and did draw a list of hosts rather than one at a time.

  It would be great if someone had a similar script built and would allow me to take a peek.

  Thanks for any help you can lend.  I really appericiate this community.  =)

  Once you get the hang of the present, it becomes very easy.

  In your case, you want to enumerate all your ESXi hosts and some properties for each host.

  The basic idea is to use the Get-VMHost cmdlet.

  Like that, it will return all ESXi servers in the vCenter which are connected.

  Get-VMHost

  On the screen, you will see a number of default properties. This is determined by a kind of file format, but leave for the time being.

  The above cmdlet returns an object that has the more properties. To display all the properties to do a Get-Member

  Get-VMHost | Get-Member

  The next step is to choose yourself which properties are to be displayed.

  To do this, you use the cmdlet Select-Object, something like this

  Get-VMHost | Select name, Build, ConnectionState

  If you want to store the result in a file, you can use for example the Export-Csv cmdlet.

  Get-VMHost | Select name, Build, ConnectionState | Export Csv C:\report.csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  If you want to learn more about the parameters that can be used on a cmdlet, you can use the Get-Help cmdlet.

  For example

  Get-Help Export-Csv-parameter NoTypeInformation

  help on this specific parameter. But you can also view the complete with help

  Export-Csv-full get-Help

  It is actually the basic concept behind the generation of reports PowerCLI/PowerShell;

  • get items
  • has chosen what you want to display
  • to save the results to a file

  This will help you on your way to start?

• Did update ESXi 4.1 host via PowerCLI see option3

  Hello

  I have a test environment before going to Production Server two ESXi410 installed (1 ESXi and ESXi-2)

  Option1: ESXi-1, I've got vCenter and Update Manager. According to the documentation, I tried to use update manager add-in for vcenter. That went well to update host ESXi-2 with ESXi410 - 201011001.zip.

  No I haven't been in trouble for the installation of the update on the ESXi-1 which has the Update Manager. As I close the virtual machine and put the ESXi-1 in Maintenance mode.

  Option2: allowing the Support of Local and Remote Tech support (SSH) technology. In this way, I copied the file to update ESXi-1 data source using PuTTY. But esxupdate command does not find the file in the path (/ vmfs/volumes/datastore1/filename.zip). Then I copied to/var/tmp/cache and use the command esxupdate - bundle = filename.zip update. It also worked well.

  But the thing I've read in your documentation to use Install-VMHostPatch did not help me.

  Option 3: of vSphere PowerCLI. > Install-VMHostPatch - VMHost /var/tmp/cache/ESXi410-201011001.zip IP - HostPath-server IP - confirm

  gave me an error 5 No. OSError file or directory.

  Yet once, I tried to change the path to the data store:

  PowerCLI > Install-VMHostPatch - VMHost IP HostPath - /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi410-201011001.zip

  Please find attached the error in the image file.

  I want to use the PowerCLI update of the host and the VM. VMware has no documentation on this.

  Help, please.

  Mohammed Ali Rizwan

  Hello

  Install-VMHostPatch will work for you only if you want to update the ESX host, it will not help for virtual machines. It is the snap another powershell called VUM PowerCLI that you can download from here http://vmware.com/go/powercliupdate. If you want to use that snap-in you should have installed VUM server.

  Now on your current number. The answer that Luc wrote should work for you. In this example, there is a step that downloads patch files manually. The reason for this is the small size partitions on ESXi and usually there is no enough space to download large patch in the temporary folder of ESXi.

  In fact, you can benefit from this approach - if all your ESXi boxes are connected to the shared storage, you can download the patches on this storage once and then upgrade one by one.

  Kind regards

  Vitali

  Team PowerCLI

• The host system resources / booking via PowerCLI

  Hello chaps,

  Does anyone know if it is possible to adjust the CPU and the memory that is reserved for a host via PowerCLI?

  (Home > Configuration > Allocation of system resources > edit)

  I usually affect the reserve memory 800 MB and CPU 800 MHz according to the design best practices.

  Thank you

  
  Dan

  As far as I know, there's no cmdlet for this, but you can use the UpdateSystemResources method.

  You just need to know that the key to the Scriptures "host/system".

  $esx = Get-VMHost MyHost 
  
  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostSystemResourceInfo $spec.key = "host/system" $spec.Config = New-Object VMware.Vim.ResourceConfigSpec$spec.Config.cpuAllocation = New-Object VMware.Vim.ResourceAllocationInfo$spec.Config.cpuAllocation.reservation = 800$spec.Config.memoryAllocation = New-Object VMware.Vim.ResourceAllocationInfo$spec.Config.memoryAllocation.reservation = 800$spec.Config.ChangeVersion = $esx.ExtensionData.SystemResources.Config.ChangeVersion
  $esx.ExtensionData.UpdateSystemResources($spec)
  

• How to change the config of vCenter Server Appliance (5.5) ESXi host vm? [Solved]

  I want to enable (set to true) memoryHotAddEnabled and cpuHotAddEnabled on the vCenter Server Appliance.

  I can't the powerCLI user because he needs a vCenter Server Appliance to connect to (right?) and to allow HotAdd of the virtual machine must be turned off.

  For anyone wondering, the best way to do this is to connect the ESXi host via vSphere Client, turn off the VM vCenter and update the configuration in this way.

• How to restart annex 5.1 ESXi host?

  Hello

  Any method of restart ESXi host 5.1 on the calendar? Thank you.

  Kind regards

  YMIM

  You can schedule the reboot of the ESXi host using PowerCLI.

  Install the PowerShell and PowerCLI module on any Windows System.

  PowerCLI start programs

  or, you can run the commands below on PowerCLI prompt to test.

  Then save it the script to run as the specific annex filename.ps1 and Windows Task Scheduler.

  SE connect-VIServer vlab-esxi2 - root username - password "password".

  $vms = get - vm | where {$_.} PowerState - eq "Receptor"}

  foreach ($vm in $vms) {Shutdown-VMGuest - VM $vm - confirm: $false}

  sleep 60

  Restart-VMHost-Force - confirm: $false

  See this post to know how to program a PowerCLI script.

  http://www.virtu-al.NET/2009/07/10/running-a-PowerCLI-scheduled-task/

• Collect information of the NIC via PowerCLI

  Hi all

  We need to collect the following information about all the cards in all hosts via PowerCLI:

  -name

  -manufacturer

  -version of the driver

  -firmware version

  -MAC address

  We know the esxcli method, but it would take a lot of time that we have many hosts and they would send an alarm to deactivate the lock mode and activating SSH and it would be extremely long and inefficient.

  While Google search, we found this method through Get-EsxCLI (http://jreypo.wordpress.com/tag/powercli/), but for some reason that I can not even list the NICs.

  PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI > $esxcli = Get-EsxCli - vmhost host

  PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI > $esxcli.system.module.get

  TypeNameOfValue: VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Util10Ps.EsxCliExtensionMethod

  OverloadDefinitions: {vim. Get EsxCLI.system.module.get.ModuleDetails (string module)}

  MemberType: CodeMethod

  Value: vim. Get EsxCLI.system.module.get.ModuleDetails (string module)

  Name: get

  IsInstance: true

  PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI > $esxcli.system.module.list

  TypeNameOfValue: VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Util10Ps.EsxCliExtensionMethod

  OverloadDefinitions: {vim. EsxCLI.system.module.list.Module [] list (boolean active, responsible boolean)}

  MemberType: CodeMethod

  Value: vim. List of [] EsxCLI.system.module.list.Module (active boolean, boolean loaded)

  Name: list

  IsInstance: true

  PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI > $esxcli.network.nic.list

  TypeNameOfValue: VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Util10Ps.EsxCliExtensionMethod

  OverloadDefinitions: [] list() {vim.EsxCLI.network.nic.list.Nic}

  MemberType: CodeMethod

  Value: vim.EsxCLI.network.nic.list.Nic [] list()

  Name: list

  IsInstance: true

  Can someone help me? Thanks in advance!

  Add parentheses to the method call

  $esxcli.network.nic.list)

• ESXi5.1 - CDP-settings via PowerCLI

  Hello

  It is possible to set the CDP-settings on an ESXi5.1 on several hosts via PowerCLI?

  And if then...?

  Thanks in advance!

  Chakoe

  I guess that (wildguess), that your vSwitches are called vSwitch. Misspelling? Case-sensitive?

• Help, I changed the password of root ESXi via powerCli, now I can not connect with the web client or the console.

  Help, I've changed the root ESXi via powerCli password, now I can not connect with the web client or the console, but I can still connect to powerCli. The command I used was;

  SE connect-VIServer esxihostname-user root - password newpasswd

  This production network btw, I have connected to each host and run the above command, these ESXi hosts are not on a domain

  y at - it something I have left out. I really appreciate any assistance that you people can provide.

  Thank you, Joe

  It is probably a longshot, but a lot of things in the land of windows is not sensitive to capital letters as Unix is.  I wonder if your new password you put through powerCLI mixed uppercase in it and if the capitalization was abandoned by command windows powerCLI Analyzer, or he interpreted as all capitals or something.   If you can still get through the powerCLI you could try to reset the password again to something simple without capitalization mixed case and if your password on ESXi strategy requires a special character, try something different than a "$", like a "_" (I find that a '_' is less likely than some other special characters (, as a '-' or a ' / ' to cause problems with analyzers.).

  Edit:

  Another thing, you can try before playing with the password once again, is to create a different username ESXi using powerCLI and see if the password ends up what you think, it should be, and if you can get with the client vsphere using it.  In this way, you can find out if there are some problems with certain characters or Cap through command powerCLI Analyzer without losing your remaining root by powerCLI access.  After some tests, you can understand what went wrong with your initial password change and may be able to fix it with less risk of losing access.  I also assume that you can not create a new username on ESXi who is able to change the root password no matter what authority give you it, otherwise, you could create a new username with PowerCLI, then connect to the client vsphere with it and change the password to root from there.

• Need a powercli script to create a new account a local administrator on all ESX and ESXi hosts in the vcenter

  Hi all

  If someone can help me with a powercli script to create a new account a local administrator on all ESX and ESXi hosts in the vcenter, create a role called admin and give all access except the root. This shoulb be past by a virtual centre.

  Very much appreciated to help him.

  Kind regards

  MelLvin

  I suspect that you posted your question to the wrong thread

  This requires only a minor change to the script above actually.

  Something like that

  $groupName = "group"$accountName = "user"$accountPswd = "password"$accountDescription = "A user"
  
  $esxlist = Get-VMHostforeach($esx in $esxlist){    Connect-VIServer -Server $esx -User root -Password "password"
  
      Try {      Get-VMHostAccount -Id $groupName -Group -ErrorAction Stop | Out-Null    }    Catch {      New-VMHostAccount -Id $groupName -GroupAccount | Out-Null    }
  
      $rootFolder = Get-Folder -Name ha-folder-root    Try{        $account = Get-VMHostAccount -Id $accountName -ErrorAction Stop |        Set-VMHostAccount -Password $accountPswd -Description $accountDescription -AssignGroups $groupName    }    Catch{        $account = New-VMHostAccount -Id $accountName -Password $accountPswd -Description $accountDescription -UserAccount -GrantShellAccess -AssignGroups $groupName    }
  
      $rootFolder = Get-Folder -Name ha-folder-root    New-VIPermission -Entity $rootFolder -Principal $account -Role admin
  
      Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$false}
  

• Need help PowerCLI with recovery ESXi host Asset Tag Info

  In the hope that someone, anyone, will be able to help me understand what I can do wrong and how to use PowerCLI to retrieve valid ESXi host Asset Tag information that appears in the tab material status vCenter. I have absolutely no problem of recovery of the serial numbers of host (sometimes referred to as Service Tags), manufacture, model, part, build, etc., but don't can't seem to be able to interrogate the current numbers of inventory number .

  None of the following attributes or property values currently returned the information required and which exists (see image below):

  Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo [0]. IdentifierValue

  Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo [1]. IdentifierValue

  Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo [2]. IdentifierValue

  Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo | where {$_.} IdentifierType.Key - eq "assettag" IdentifierValue})

  

  This is the script that I am running. I used PowerCLI Version 5.1:

  $VIServer = 'enter vCenter Server Name'

  
  # Add component snap kernel PowerCLI
  If (!) () Get-pssnapin-name VMware.VimAutomation.Core - erroraction silentlycontinue)) {}
  Add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
  }

  SE connect-VIServer $VIServer

  $HostReport = @)

  $VMH = get-VMHost | Get-View | % {}

  $Report = "" | Select the host name, Version, build, manufacture, model, series, Asset Tag

  $Report.Hostname = $_. Name

  $Report.version = $_. Config.Product.Version

  $Report.Build = $_. Config.Product.Build

  $Report.manufacture = $_. Hardware.SystemInfo.Vendor

  $Report.Model = $_. Hardware.SystemInfo.Model

  $Report.Serial = $_. Hardware.SystemInfo.OtherIdentifyingInfo [0]. IdentifierValue

  $ Tag = Report.Asset?

  $HostReport += $Report
  
  }

  $HostReport | Export-Csv «.\HostReport.csv"- NoTypeInformation

  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  Ron thx.

  As far as I know, has nothing to do with PowerCLI, this is how vCenter gets this information, and how and where some HW providers make this information available.

  With the interface of the CIM, you can dump all the available information and then find exactly the tag died murdered.

  See what this returns

  import-module CimCmdlets$esxiHostname = "MyESXiServer"$HostUsername = "root"$CIOpt = New-CimSessionOption -SkipCACheck -SkipCNCheck -SkipRevocationCheck -Encoding Utf8 -UseSsl$Session = New-CimSession -Authentication Basic -Credential $HostUsername -ComputerName $esxiHostname -port 443 -SessionOption $CIOptGet-CimInstance -CimSession $Session -ClassName CIM_Chassis
  

  You will be asked the password root ESXi.

  On some of our older IBM HW, I get the following where we expect the identification sticker.

  

  But the information is there, just to another property.

  As we have already mentioned our VMworld session, exploring the CIM API.

  There is a lot of information in there

• ESXi hosts SBS 2011, clients lose network via VPN

  Greetings,

  We have an ESXi Server (in a lab environment) who perform a SBS 2011 and a Windows 2003 (Terminal Server).

  We have two locations, connected via a VPN IPSec (2 boxes of ClearOS).

  The ESXi host is located in building r. customers in the construction of an experience no problem at all.

  Customers in the building B often lose connectivity to network share. We also failed when copying data. Do not forget that the servers are located in the building and issues affecting only users in the B building.

  We noticed the event ID 2012 on the VM SBS 2011 event viewer.

  The two buildings are connected to a cable broadband 10 mb / 1 mb ISP.

  NOD32 Antivirus is installed on the two virtual machines

  Any help would be appreciated!

  Thank you

  Fred9777

  Hello

  There are a few things to look out for more such links. The following steps were made on W2K and W2K3, so that they are still applicable for you.

  (1) is the VPN capable to manage the packet being sent by site B MTU size, sometimes the MTU on VPN size must be less than the default value of 1500 set LAN. You can check this scathing your server with a command like

  ping f-l 1500

  If you get a message like "packet needs to be fragmented but DF parameter.

  You will need to reduce the size of the MTU TCP/IP in the client registry. Try to ping the server with a size of 500 bytes and see how it goes.

  (2) setting the server TCP/IP stack

  In the registry HKLM \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters, create or modify value DWORD of TcpMaxDataRetransmissions. By default, it is set to 5, but I recommend double this value to 10. The TcpMaxDataRetransmissions value is the number of retransmissions of TCP of a data segment without acknowledgement of receipt on an existing connection. TCP retransmits data segments until they are acknowledged or until the expiry of this value. Basically, when a client does not meet a package from the server, the server will attempt to retransmit the packet until TcpMaxDataRetransmissions many times. By increasing this value, you give the customer more time to answer on the server, which will help improve the flaky connections or connections with latency or higher than normal packet loss.

  HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\KeepAliveInterval and HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\KeepAliveTime.

  Both entered DWORD.
  KeepAliveInterval determines the interval between retransmissions keep until a response is received. If a response is received, the delay until the next keep alive transmission is again controlled by the value of KeepAliveTime.
  The connection will be broken once the number of retransmissions specified by TcpMaxDataRetransmissions is remained. KeepAliveInterval is set by default at 1000, which is one second.
  KeepAliveTime controls how many times TCP attempts to verify that an idle connection is still intact by sending a living package of the Dungeon. If the remote system is still reachable and running, he will acknowledge receipt of the living transmission to keep. KeepAliveTime is set by default to 7 200 000, or 2 hours.

  I hope this helps.

• Disable the host followed via PowerCLI

  Hi all...

  
  I am looking for a way to disable the host followed via powercli.

  I found one-liner of LucD to get the current state: Get-Cluster | Select Name, @{N = 'Home monitoring status'; E={$_. Extensiondata.Configuration.DasConfig.HostMonitoring}}

  And I know how to turn on/off HA: Get-Cluster | Cluster - HAEnabled game: $false

  But I'm not sure how to combine the two.

  I want to be able to quickly toggle host control without having to disable HA altogether.

  Thoughts?

  Thank you!

  You can use a where clause

  Get-Cluster | where {$_.} Extensiondata.Configuration.DasConfig.HostMonitoring} | Cluster - HAEnabled game: $false

• Connect NAS LAN device via ESXi host

  Hi all

  I am currently fighting to get my NAS device attached to my LAN. I drew my network physical configuration below. Currently, the NAS is directly connected to the second NETWORK card in my server ESXi host. The first NETWORK card is the host is connected to the router, which is attached to the rest of my network and NATs to the Internet.

  

  My design of virtual network looks like this right now.

  

  If I add the second NETWORK card to port VM group, the NAS is visible to the virtual machines; However he cannot understand how to access the outside via the map of others. And the NAS is not visible from the attached LAN devices. Of course the two vm gw is set to 192.168.2.1

  Basically I want the SIN to be on the same subnet as the all other devices on my LAN. Of course I could put in a physical switch between my router and the host of the virtual machine, but is it not possible to somehow the second NIC in the host 'transparent' or is he bridge on the first?

  Thanks in advance,

  Johan

  johanot wrote:

  But is not possible to software-ize/virtualize this behavior?

  It wouldn't be done by ESX (i).  You must have the bridge of the guest OS network cards.  Or you change the subnet of the second NETWORK card and configure routing in your guest OS.  Possible, but sounds like more complexity than really necessary.

  ... I mean... Physically, your suggestion means I have to buy an additional switch to put in front of my host.

  Unless you 'need' to a switch, a gigabit unmanaged switch is not so expensive and has no configuration.  (And if you need a bunch of ports, I had a switch to unmanaged gigabit 16 port d-Link for under $ 200 at Office Depot).  The "no configuration" section is worth the expense in my humble OPINION.