A virtual machine by CSV?

I use the metric graph widget. I don't see a way to get more data from a virtual computer on a simple CSV file. E.g., application (MHz) CPU for vm1 and application (MHz) CPU for vm2 in the same csv file. I can only download application (MHz) CPU to csv for a virtual machine at a time. Have two separate csv files, then combine them. What is a design limitation? Someone please tell me there is a better way...

Ok thank you. So when I create this supermetric, I select my group that I created in the Admin UI.

I don't select the "total application (MHz) under the"Metric"or"Attribute out? '"

I actually do a sumN() on the "total application (MHz)?

Should I add this SM to a package attribute?

When I create this supermetric, I can assign it to the group that I created in the editor of supermetric. However I still can not to appear on the widget "Metric Graph" for the group that was created in the Admin UI. I can only make it appear for a virtual machine at a time.

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}

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Two functions I have installed
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Two functions I have installed

function {Get-VMEvents

< #.

. Logbook

Get events for an entity or query all events.

. Description

This function returns the events for the entities. It is very similar to

cmdlet Get-vievent. Please note that get-VMEvent can handle 1 vm at a time.

You can't send picture of vms in this version of the script.

. Example of

Get-VMEvents 0All-types "VmCreatedEvent", "VmDeployedEvent", "VmClonedEvent".

He will receive all events of type "VmCreatedEvent", "VmDeployedEvent"

'VmClonedEvent '.

. Example of

Get-VMEvents-name 'vm1' - type 'VmCreatedEvent '.

Will be out of the events of creation of virtual machine: "vm1. It's faster than the vms piping is of

result of Get - vm. There is no need to use get - vm to move names to get-vmevents.

Yet, it is OK when you do, it will be just a little more slow < span class = "wp-smiley wp-emoji wp-emoji-blink of eye" title = ';') > ;) </span >

. Example of

Get-VMEvents-name 'vm1' - category 'WARNING '.

Will be out all events for vm: 'vm1. It is is faster than the names of piping of

cmdlet Get - vm. Category will get-vmevent to search only the defined category

events.

. Example of

Get - vm "vm1 | Get-VMEvents-types "VmCreatedEvent", "VmMacAssignedEvent".

Shows events for vm1 which will be regarding the events of creation,.

and events when when / what mac address is assigned

. VM parameter

This setting is a unique string that represents the name of the vm. He expects this single vm name

There in the virtual Center. Now in the first version of the script, it will only load a case

where there is 1 instance of vm selected name. In the future it will load multiple as

Well.

. Types of parameters

If none is specified, it will return all the events. If specified will return

Only the events with selected types. For example: "VmCreatedEvent."

"VmDeployedEvent", "VmMacAssignedEvent" "VmClonedEvent", etc...

. Category of a parameter

Possible categories are: warning, info, error. Please use this setting if you

you want to filter events.

. Setting all the

If you need to set this parameter, so command queries all events

Center Virtual Server virtual machines.

. Notes

NAME: VMEvents

AUTHOR: Grzegorz Kulikowski

LASTEDIT: 09/11/2012

DOES NOT? #powercli @ irc.freenode.net

. Link

http://psvmware.WordPress.com

# >

(param

[Parameter (ValueFromPipeline = $true)]

[ValidatenotNullOrEmpty()]

$VM,

[String []] $variétés.

[string] $category,

[switch] $All

)

$si = get-view ServiceInstance

$em is get-view $si. Content.EventManager

$EventFilterSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.EventFilterSpec

$EventFilterSpec.Type = $types

{if ($Category)}

$EventFilterSpec.Category = $category

}

If {($VM)

$EventFilterSpec.Entity = new-Object VMware.Vim.EventFilterSpecByEntity

switch ($VM) {}

{$_-is [VMware.Vim.VirtualMachine]} {$VMmoref = $vm.moref}

{$_-is [VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.Inventory.VirtualMachineImpl]} {$VMmoref = $vm. ExtensionData.moref}

default {$vmmoref = (get - view - ViewType virtualmachine-filter @{'name' = $VM}) .moref}

}

$EventFilterSpec.Entity.Entity = $vmmoref

$em. QueryEvents ($EventFilterSpec)

}

If {($All)

$em. QueryEvents ($EventFilterSpec)

}

function get-vmcreationdate {}

< #.

. Logbook

Gets if possible virtual machine created.

. Description

This function will return the object with information about the creation time, method, of months,.

creator of particular virtual machine.

VMname: SomeVM12

Createduserid: 10/08/2012 11:48:18

CreatedMonth: August

CreationMethod: cloned

Creator: office\greg

This function displays NoEvent property in case when your VC do not

more information on these specific events, or your vm events no longer have

entries for the subject being created. If your VC data base has more tension date it is no longer possible

you find this event.

. Example of

Get-VMCreationdate - VMnames 'my_vm1', 'My_otherVM '.

This will return items that contain date information of creating virtual machines with names

myvm1 and myvm2

. Example of

Get-VM-location 'Cluster1 | Get-VMCreationdate

This will return items that contain information created for virtual machines that are

Located in Cluster1

. Example of

Notice-EEG - viewtype virtualmachine - SearchRoot (get-datacenter "mydc") user.user | Get-VMCreationDate

This will return items that contain information created for virtual machines that are

located in the data center "mydc" container If you use this feature in an existing loop where you

having the cmdlet get-view virtual machines, you can pass them via pipes or as a parameter VMnames.

. Example of

$report = get-cluster "cl-01' | Get-VMCreationdate

$report | Export-csv c:\myreport.csv

Stores all reported creationtimes object in the array $report variable and export the report to a csv file.

You can also filter the report before you write in the csv file using select

$report | Where-Object {$_.} {CreatedMonth - eq "October"} | Select VMName, CreatedMonth

So that you see only the vms that have been created in October.

. Example of

Get-vmcreationdate - VMnames "my_vm1", testvm55

WARNING: my_vm1 is not found, typo?

VMname: testvm55

Createduserid: 05/10/2012 14:24:03

CreatedMonth: October

CreationMethod: NewVM

Creator: home\greg

In case when you receive virtual machine that is not appropriate in the infrastructure of yor, a warning is displayed.

You can always store the full text of the report in the $report variable, but it includes all the information on

dates of creation of the missing vm. A warning always only for your information there is

probably a typing mistake in the name of the virtual machine.

. Parameter VMnames

This parameter must contain objects of virtual machine or strings representing vm

names. It is possible to supply this function wiith VM objects coming from get - vm or

get - view.

. Notes

NAME: Get-VMCreationdate

AUTHOR: Grzegorz Kulikowski

LASTEDIT: 27/11/2012

DOES NOT? #powercli @ irc.freenode.net

. Link

http://psvmware.WordPress.com

# >

(param

[Parameter (ValueFromPipeline = $true, mandatory = $true)]

[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]

[Object []] $VMnames

)

{in process

{foreach ($vm to $VMnames)

$ReportedVM = "" | Select VMname Createduserid, CreatedMonth, CreationMethod, creator

If ($CollectedEvent = $vm |) Get - VMEvents - types "VmBeingDeployedEvent", "VmRegisteredEvent", "VmClonedEvent", "VmBeingCreatedEvent" - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)

{

If ($CollectedEvent.GetType ().) IsArray) {$CollectedEvent = $CollectedEvent |?} {{$_-is [vmware.vim.VmRegisteredEvent]}}

$CollectedEventType = $CollectedEvent.gettype () .name

$CollectedEventMonth = "{0: MMMM}" $CollectedEvent.CreatedTime f

$CollectedEventCreationDate = $CollectedEvent.CreatedTime

$CollectedEventCreator = $CollectedEvent.Username

Switch ($CollectedEventType)

{

"VmClonedEvent" {$CreationMethod = "Cloned"}

"VmRegisteredEvent" {$CreationMethod = "RegisteredFromVMX"}

"VmBeingDeployedEvent" {$CreationMethod = "VmFromTemplate"}

"VmBeingCreatedEvent" {$CreationMethod = "NewVM"}

default value {$CreationMethod = 'Error'}

}

$ReportedVM.VMname = $CollectedEvent.vm.Name

$ReportedVM.CreatedTime = $CollectedEventCreationDate

$ReportedVM.CreatedMonth = $CollectedEventMonth

$ReportedVM.CreationMethod = $CreationMethod

$ReportedVM.Creator = $CollectedEventCreator

} else {}

If ($?) {

If ($vm - is [VMware.Vim.VirtualMachine]) {$ReportedVM.VMname = $vm.name} else {$ReportedVM.VMname = $vm.} ToString()}

$ReportedVM.CreatedTime = 'NoEvent.

$ReportedVM.CreatedMonth = 'NoEvent.

$ReportedVM.CreationMethod = 'NoEvent.

$ReportedVM.Creator = 'NoEvent.

} else {}

$ReportedVM = $null

Write-Warning "$VM is not found, typo?

}

$ReportedVM

}

Now, if I use the first command

Get - vm testvm

I get a response of

Name PowerState Num CPU MemoryGB

---- ---------- -------- --------

Receiving TestVM 4 4,000

But if I do

Get-vmcreationdate testvm

he responds with

WARNING: testvm is not found. misspelling?

I can't understand why he says this?

What will be the final objective to query the server vcenter set and export a CSV of the creation of each day VM - is their an easier way to do it?

I was intending to use

get - vm | Get-VMCreationDate | Export-Csv-path "d:\\reports\vmcreationinventory.csv ".

But at the present time, each unique virtual machine is indicating "is not found."

Attached is an example with a virtual machine called gbvls

Although you may be better communicate with the author of these functions, from what I can tell, it seems to indicate that none of the specified events were found for these virtual machines.

You can check if there are targeted with the cmdlet Get-VIEvent ordinary events.

If you can see events, there could be a problem with the Get-VMEvents function.

$vmName = 'testvm '.

$tgtEvents = "VmBeingDeployedEvent", "VmRegisteredEvent", "VmClonedEvent", "VmBeingCreatedEvent".

$vm = get-VM-name $vmName

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An example of this cmdley

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In your case, you could do

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BOOM!

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)
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```
you have a problem. Impossible to save all the tables in a csv file and do powershell natively recognize them.

Instead, use a delimiter custom (not the same csv uses!) and split - to import - in a table. Look at the semicolon between two dns servers.

$newVmList = import-Csv test.csv | Select-Object - property 'name', 'ip', 'mask', 'bridge', @{Name = "dns"; {Expression = {$_ .dns-split ';'}}, "networkName".

The object resulting looks like this
```
    name       : TESTSRV1    ip         : 10.244.186.136    netmask    : 255.255.255.0    gateway    : 10.244.186.1    dns        : {10.244.37.25, 10.244.37.26} <-- Array    networkName: VLAN186_QA
```
Concerning

Emanuel

Create the list of virtual machines to exclude the script through .csv file?

Hello
I have a script that runs all day off hours to check my VMs respect some things, like having the option to 'VM tools upgrade policy' checked. The script will export a list of virtual machines that DO NOT have this option enabled and then later to fix the problem. Now, for some specific VMS, I don't want to have the option active and want to exclude them from this review. I try to add a list of these virtual machines I want to exclude from my check script of VMTools_UpgradePolicy via a .csv file containing their names. Here's what I have:
##############################################
#VMTools update during the feeding cycle - report
##############################################
function Report_VMTools_UpgradePolicy {}
$list = import-Csv "C:\VMware\PowerCLI\Scripts\EXCLUDE LIST\EXCLUDE_vmtools_upgradepolicy.csv".
foreach ($entry in $list) {$exclude = Get-VM-name $entry. Name}
$vms = get - Vm | where {$_.} Name - not $exclude - and (Get-View-Id $_.) {ID). Config.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy - eq 'manual'} | Select name
$vms | Export-Csv "C:\VMware\PowerCLI\Scripts\REPORTS\vmtools_upgradepolicy.csv" - NoTypeInformation
}
The content of the EXCLUDE_vmtools_upgradepolicy.csv is as follows:
'Name '.
"VM1.
"VM2.
"VM3.
I try to get all the virtual machines in my environment who have the ToolsUpgradePolicy - eq 'manual' (unchecked), AND which do not match any of the names on my list of exclusions (VM1, VM2, VM3). My script so far will do what I want, except that only the last entry in my list of exclusions will take into account. VM1 and VM2 will still be reported as VMs that need to be addressed.
I'm not sure that I am taking the right approach with this, I will continue to seek a solution for what I want, but any help would be appreciated! I prefer to make my list of exclusion to a separate file, for example "EXCLUDE_vmtools_upgradepolicy.csv", because I want that other administrators to be able to just open this .csv file and add virtual machines to this list without having to touch my scripts.
Thank you!
Vince

Hi Vince,.

It is like that I think because of your statement:

foreach ($entry in $list) {$exclude = Get-VM-name $entry. Name} -> it
$vms = get - Vm | where {$_.} Name - not $exclude - and (Get-View-Id $_.) {ID). Config.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy - eq 'manual'} | Select name
$vms | Export-Csv "C:\VMware\PowerCLI\Scripts\REPORTS\vmtools_upgradepolicy.csv" - NoTypeInformation
}

$exclude is a variable that contains only 1 entry., that's why you see only the last element inside. It will not be an array.

foreach ($entry in $list) {[string []]+ $exclude = Get-VM-name $entry.} Name}

This will fill $exclude table with entries of string that will contain the names of virtual machine.

And when you will be comparing. I think you should use

where {$exclude - notcontains $_.} Name - and... the rest

Kind regards

Greg

Get the list of virtual machines on an ESX host specific and dumping of .csv in a specific format

I have problems to find a way to get a list of virtual machines on an ESX host specific and then he dumped to a .csv in the following format
I use the get-vmhost esxhostname | Get - vm
but everyhting else after, it is where I am lost... I think the closest I had been posting the output with a goofy header and format 'vm1, vm2, vm3 "...
name
computer 1 name
computer 2 name
name of the machine 3
to use for later use. Any help would be appreciated.

You must use the Select-Object cmdlet to specify more precisely the properties you want.

The Export-Csv doesn't know how to manage the virtual computer object.

Something like that

Get-vmhost esxhostname | Get - vm | Select name. Export Csv.\report.csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

Generate the CSV file to the virtual machine by using get-stat statistics

Hi all
I put my VC for taking samples every 5 minutes for 3 days.
I would create a PowerCLI script that I can then run on an ad hoc basis to connect to my VC and to get the details for ALL of the virtual machines that are managed by this CR and fill in a CSV (c:\foo.csv):
- Name of the virtual machine
- The ESX VM host is currently sitting
- total number of virtual processors assigned to VM
- total memory allocated to the VM
- memory active average used by the virtual machine in the 3 days using samples of 5 minutes
- average mhz CPU used by VM spent 3 days using samples of 5 minutes
I have attached a sample file XLS of CSV output should look like.
If anyone can give me a code to achieve or get on well on my way, I would appreciate it a lot.
Kind regards
Alex

OK, so what you want is something like this then?
```
Get-VM | Where {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"} |
 Select Name, Host, NumCpu, MemoryMB,
           @{N="Cpu.UsageMhz.Average";E={[Math]::Round((($_ | Get-Stat -Stat cpu.usagemhz.average -Start (Get-Date).AddHours(-72) -IntervalMins 5 -MaxSamples (12) | Measure-Object Value -Average).Average),2)}},
           @{N="Mem.Usage.Average";E={[Math]::Round((($_ | Get-Stat -Stat mem.usage.average -Start (Get-Date).AddHours(-72) -IntervalMins 5 -MaxSamples (12) | Measure-Object Value -Average).Average),2)}}
```
I think that the issue that you have with the missing stat might be to do with your logging levels in VC, if these are not set correctly it will not save these stats for this period of time.

What do you get if you do a simple:
```
get-vm "SingleVM" | Get-Stat -Stat cpu.usagemhz.average
```
If you found this information useful, please consider the allocation of points for correct or helpful.

Alan Renouf

http://Virtu-al.NET

How to import the list of virtual machines to complete a table in a workflow

When you run the followingworkflow/library/vCenter/batch/run a workflow on a selection of objects
How import you a list of virtual machines to complete the table of virtual machines?
At this moment we are manually by selecting the virtual machines and adding them to the table individually which is very tedious. We would simply import a list.

There is a certain ways that you can do what you're trying to do, but from your description, it looks like a wrapper will work best. I enclose a simple workflow that loads the table from a csv file. There is no error checking going on, but it should help you get started and you can expand on it from there.

Sharing the drive between several virtual machines

Hi all
We have a configuration with a SAN (Dell Compellent) and use vSphere 6 to host a number of Windows servers. We now have a giant machine of Windows with a large number of small files for a particular application.
Now, we would like to create a cluster with a LoadBalancer in front of him, so that we can handle more load. To do this, we want to create a disk that is shared between 2 (or more) of windows machines.
One of the problems is that NTFS is not a supported clustered file system. So, I did a lot of research on Google to see what my options are. In my opinion, they are the following:
1. set up a Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) Microsoft (use SMB if I read the documentation)
2. the user Windows shares on a separate file server
3. the user NFS (depreacted under Windows)
4. switch to Linux and use NFS
The problem I have, is that they use all the network traffic. For example, option 2 is ridiculous slow. NFS under Linux is also a way slower than the local drive (managed by VMWare iSCSI) disk access and NFS on windows does not appear to be
support very well.
I know that there are aware filesystems, clustered as VMFS etc. Is there a way to access it directly from my Windows VM or are there devices SAN which is directly accessible from the virtual Windows machine?
Or maybe there are other solutions to set up a shared drive?

I know that there are aware filesystems, clustered as VMFS etc. Is there a way to access it directly from my Windows VM or are there devices SAN which is directly accessible from the virtual Windows machine?

VMFS is a really clustered file system and allow access of multiple virtual machine the same amount of storage (data store) which is different from that to create a virtual disk (hard) and present to multiple virtual machines. You can do this, BUT the guest virtual machine should take care of several accesses to the hard, for Windows, you must turn on the feature... without this clustering with failover data may be corrupted.

I think the best and supported solution for you is to create another cluster with Failover Cluster functionality and create a resource sharing files with files that will access your NLB nodes.

Migration of virtual machines to vSphere 4.1 to vSphere 6.0

As the title eludes to, we are standing up a new physics 6.0 Server vCenter Server and need to migrate virtual machines of 4.1 6.0 guest hosts. I'd love to take the time to create a script that does the following; However, before heading down this path, I wanted to do a ping of the group to see if someone has done something like this before or have pointers to scripts that perform some of these actions already. Some background and concept:
- Running 4.1.
- A new physical Center of vCenter 6.0 will be deployed side-by-side with 4.1.
- The existing configuration of vSphere HA allows for 1-2 guests down without impact to the virtual machines.
- The two environment and will be Cisco N1KV, SAN access shared for the same data storages.
- A new vCenter will be lifted.
- A single host is identified and VMs evacuated to the remaining hosts.
- This host will be in maintenance mode, removed from the cluster and close.
- A clean install of ESXi 6 will be done and set up spec.
- N1KV will be deployed.
To digress on the details at the moment... Now markets PowerCLI desired. This idea is ad hoc and on the fly, so as I write this.
- identify all the virtual machines associated with a specific data store - will need to work with the local client to schedule downtime for virtual machines
- Stop the virtual machine
- Remove the VM of the vCenter 4.1 inventory
- to connect to vCenter 6.0
- Add the virtual machine to the vCenter 6.0 inventory (and once we have passed the first host in the new cluster, automatically place the virtual machine by using the DRS)
- Reconfigure the vmnic with the new Cisco 1000V dvs (will be the same name on both sides, but has a different ID)
- pull in the keys and the values to a CSV and advancedsetting set to harden
- Turn on the virtual machine
- Perhaps a test of ping for the NETWORK card to check connectivity
The order in which the steps are performed can be switched around, as long as the desired end result is the same: migration effectively virtual machines between two disparate solutions with single medium sharing as a data store. In which I realize will always be VMFS3. New data stores VMFS-5 is another task for another time.
Thank you for your time, suggestions, links, etc...
@LucD - hi.

These steps are quite possible with PowerCLI.

See the script after skeleton, he probably needs some adjustments to fit your environment and requirements

$dsName = "xyz".

$vm = get - VM - $dsName data store

Stop-VMGuest - VM $vm - confirm: $false

Remove-VM - $vm VM - confirm: $false

Disconnect-VIServer-Server vc41 - confirm: $false

$vc6 = Connect-VIServer-Server vc6

$newVM = $vm | New-VM - DiskPath $_. ExtensionData.Config.Files.VmPathName - confirm: $false

# Suppose a CSV file with

# Key, value

# key1, value1

# key2, value2

$advSettings = import-Csv - UseCulture advSettings.csv

{foreach ($obj in $newVM)

$advSettings | %{

Get-AdvancedSetting - $obj entity - name $_. Key |

Game-AdvancedSetting - value of $_. Value - confirm: $false

}

}

Start-VM - $newVM VM - confirm: $false

$newVM |

Select Name,

@{N = "Available"; E = {Test-Connection - ComputerName $_.} Guest.HostName - County 1 - Quiet}}

A virtual machine by CSV?

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