After the VMWARE Powercli guide Frustration

$newvm.vmwareNEW.newvm | foreach {New-VM-name $_ .name-model $_.} Tmp - StorageFormat $_. SF - Datastore $_. DS - VMHost $_. VMH | set-vm - memorygb $_. RAM - numcpu $_. CPU-confirm: $false | Get-hard drive | together-hard drive - data store $_. DS - StorageFormat $_. SF - CapacityGB $_. HD-confirm: $false | new-harddisk - Datastore $_. DS - StorageFormat $_. SF - CapacityGB $_. NHD-confirm: $false | new-harddisk - Datastore $_. DS - StorageFormat $_. SF - CapacityGB $_. NNHD-confirm: $false | new-harddisk - Datastore $_. DS - StorageFormat $_. SF - CapacityGB $_. NNNHD-confirm: $false | new-harddisk - Datastore $_. DS - StorageFormat $_. SF - CapacityGB $_. {NNNNHD-confirm: $false}

It comes to getting the error message:

WHY the name argument is empty?

New-VM: could not validate the argument on the parameter 'name '. The argument is null or empty. Provide an argument that is not

null or empty and then try the command again.

On line: 1 char: 48

+ $newvm.vmwareNEW.newvm | foreach {New-VM-Name $_.} Name - model $_. Tmp-storage...

+                                                ~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [new-VM], ParameterBindingValidationException)

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.NewVM

It has been chewed when it has been posted on the forum so I had a go at reformatting. I also added the missing "get-content" to load the XML file (which may explain why you receive the question "empty or null.")

[xml] $newvm = Get-Content prophix.xml

newvm.vmwareNEW.newvm | foreach {'}

New-VM-name $_ .name-model $_. Tmp - StorageFormat $_. SF - Datastore $_. DS - VMHost $_. VMH | `

set-vm - memorygb $_. RAM - numcpu $_. CPU-confirm: $false | `

Get-hard drive | together-hard drive - data store $_. DS - StorageFormat $_. SF - CapacityGB $_. HD-confirm: $false | »

new-harddisk - Datastore $_. DS - StorageFormat $_. SF - CapacityGB $_. NHD-confirm: $false | »

new-harddisk - Datastore $_. DS - StorageFormat $_. SF - CapacityGB $_. NNHD-confirm: $false | `

new-harddisk - Datastore $_. DS - StorageFormat $_. SF - CapacityGB $_. NNNHD-confirm: $false | »

new-harddisk - Datastore $_. DS - StorageFormat $_. SF - CapacityGB $_. NNNNHD-confirm: $false '

}

Other things that likely are not what you want...

  • Line 3 - the VMH value in the XML file looks like to try a couple of queries to find a VMware host for the virtual machine. A number of things that do not work

  • The value of VMH will not be executed, so it will try to find a host named "(production de get-cluster |)" Get-vmhost | (get-random) ' rather than the command and returning a value
  • If the cluster is active DRS it's easier to use - ResourcePool (get-cluster production) and let the DRS know where to place the virtual computer. By practice (production of get-cluster | get-vmhost | get-random) the code can try and place the new virtual machine on the hosts that are down, disconnected or in maintenance mode (and fails), while DRS will avoid the hosts for the initial investment
  • Line 4 - code seems to assume that $_ always object references a 'newvm' from the XML file. This isn't happening, rather each time you "pipe" $_ done refers the previous result. So the line $3 _ is a newvm object and things like $_.name work as expected. Online $4 _ is now being VM returned by New - VM, not the newvm object from the XML file. So things like $_. RAM and $_. CPU will be null since $_ is not what the script expects it to be.
  • Line 6 - here is an object pipeline as new hard drive is powered a hard disk object in the pipeline (all-hard drive has returned an object of hard drive) and new-harddisk cannot use a hard drive as the input object (will throw an error "the input object cannot be bound"). The other issue is $_. SF and $_. NHD will $Null because what is in the pipeline is not an object 'newvm '.
  • Line 6-9-only the first entry in the XML file has several entries of size of hard disk (NHD, NNHD, etc.). The code will trigger errors when you try to create virtual machines with less than 4 drives as the CapacityGB will (try) to be set to $Null that is not valid

    • Because the code ends with the bad object in the pipeline, most of the time probably to iterate instead of trying to any pipeline. A small change in the XML file is necessary so that VMH is simply the name of the cluster (production). I have not tried running this code with your XML file, but it should give you a start to work from (the NHD, NNNHD, NNHD, etc. could be converted into a loop "foreach" If XML has changed so that there are multiple instances of the NHD element rather than the names of different elements for example)

    [xml] $newvm = Get-Content prophix.xml

    {foreach ($vm to $newvm.vmwareNEW.newvm)}

    $CurVM = new-VM-name $vm.name - model $vm. Tmp - StorageFormat $vm. SF - $vm data store. DS - ResourcePool (get-cluster $vm. VMH)

    $CurVM | set-vm - memorygb $vm. RAM - numcpu $vm. CPU-confirm: $false

    $CurVM | Get-hard drive | together-hard drive - data $vm store. DS - StorageFormat $vm. SF - CapacityGB $vm. HD-confirm: $false

    If ($vm. NHD - don't $Null) {}

    $CurVM | new-harddisk - $vm data store. DS - StorageFormat $vm. SF - CapacityGB $vm. NHD-confirm: $false

    }

    If ($vm. NNHD - not $Null) {}

    $CurVM | new-harddisk - $vm data store. DS - StorageFormat $vm. SF - CapacityGB $vm. NNHD-confirm: $false

    }

    If ($vm. NNNHD - not $Null) {}

    $CurVM | new-harddisk - $vm data store. DS - StorageFormat $vm. SF - CapacityGB $vm. NNNHD-confirm: $false

    }

    If ($vm. NNNNHD - not $Null) {}

    $CurVM | new-harddisk - $vm data store. DS - StorageFormat $vm. SF - CapacityGB $vm. NNNNHD-confirm: $false

    }

    }

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