Automate the VMs using PowerCLI performance report

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  Could you just add the values for the smart list in the planning, once they are in place, you don't have to set them up again.
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• How to use PowerCLI to report on the parameters of VMware Tools?

  Anyone know what the script would be to report on the configuration of the VMware Tools on a virtual computer running?  What I'm really interested by creates a report telling me if VMware Tools is configured to synchronize the time with the host.

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• How to read the content .vmtx of the file using PowerCLI

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  I have a virtual computer model in one of the NFS attached to my ESX host data stores.
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  Hi guys,.

  I try to shoot down vCenter virtual computer configuration details and am not having much luck with vCPU multicore machines.

  Looking at the lists of VMS in vSphere Client, it offers a column "Number of CPU" basis and does not include any other granularity (i.e. in terms of casings & carrots as opposed to simply 'CPU Count').

  I thought that maybe I have better luck using PowerCLI and essentially, the cmdlet "Get - VM" has the kind of information I'm looking for, but I find that it lacks a bit when it comes to vCPU details.  Essentially, it turns out that does not do much better than the list of virtual machines in vSphere Client because it produces only a "CPU Num" value, which is not particularly useful.

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  Can someone enlighten me on component services, found in the administrative tools, including the management console folder. Is their anything that can be done by someone who has no knowledge on this subject, extensive Windows, I use XP (SP3) thank you.

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  Microsoft Management Console (MMC) lets system administrators create much more flexible user interfaces and customize administration tools.

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• Using PowerCLI to recover the capacity of volume comments data

  I am using PowerCLI to declare on the volume letter and free space associated with a guest computer.  I am currently addressing this problem through the extensiondata of the VM guest and then placing the properties I want in a PSObject.

  The question that I am running is that numeric values keep coming up as zero when it is inside the loop for, although they correctly resolve by themselves.  One thing I found interesting was these two upcoming properties like "System.Nullable [long"] when executing GetType(), but I don't know if that is related to the question.

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  for ($i = 0; $i - lt $vmguesthdds. Length; $i++)

  {

  $vmguestinfo | Add-Member - MemberType NoteProperty-Name ' DiskPath$ I '-$vmguesthdds [$i] value. DiskPath

  $vmguestinfo | Add-Member - MemberType ScriptProperty-Name ' CapacityGB$ I "-value {($vmguesthdds [$i]. Capacity). ToString ("N", $USCulture)}

  $vmguestinfo | Add-Member - MemberType ScriptProperty-Name ' UsedSpaceGB$ I "-value {[System.Decimal]: Subtract ($vmguesthdds [$i].} Capacity, $vmguesthdds [$i]. FreeSpace). ToString ("N", $USCulture)}

  $vmguestinfo | Add-Member - MemberType ScriptProperty-Name ' FreeSpacePercent$ I "-value {[System.Decimal]: Divide ($vmguesthdds [$i].} FreeSpace), ($vmguesthdds [$i]. Capacity). ToString ("P", $USCulture)}

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  Thank you

  Yes, he had a few typos in the code.

  I corrected which, in the code and the attachment.

  Try this one.

  I'm afraid that I can't achieve this GitHub repository.

  A search on your GitHub account does not return either

• Way to the commands per second using PowerCLI

  You can use powerCLI for average orders per second of a virtual machine on a historical period in the same way, as you can with cpu.usagemhz.average?

  Just to clarify:

  Does

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  (In this case, I'm eager to get all the IOPs for all all of the virtual disks connected to a specific virtual machine)

  It gives you the IOPS / s specific to entire virtual machine and not the data store.

  Also - I'm the zeros for my data when I launch the present.  I see in vSphere client commands per second only to the data in real time, not for the last day, week or year.  Is it because of my level settings statistics?

  Yes, vCenter 5.0 and place unfortunately don't collect statistics of e/s long term on a per-VM level more.

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• Automatic creation of pools (linked Clone) using powerCLI

  Hello

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  OK, I'll give it a try.

  The parentVMPath parameter expects the path to the virtual machine that you want to spawn the pool (obviously).

  Such a path looks like this: / MyDC/vm/MyVM

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  If your master VM is deeper in the structure of folders, just add the folders in the path.

  Ex: / MyDC/vm/Folder1/Folder2/MyVM

  The parentSnapshotPath is similar to the previous setting, but obviously needs to point to the snapshot pool should clone.

  Alan has a nice feature to recover the snapshotpath Updateand re-view pools calm.

  The vmFolderPath is where the virtual machines that are created for the pool to be stored.

  Similar to the previous settings, but now for the record once again.

  Ex: / MyDC/vm/PoolFolder

  resourcePoolPath must point to a resourcepool.

  Such a path will look something like this: / MyDC/host/MyCluster/Resources/MyResourcePool

  Note that host and resources are again hidden folders!

  datastoreSpecs: this is not the most obvious.

  He wants the full path to a data store in a cluster that is specified by a resource pool.

  See the function VVGetDatastorePath to determine the paths to vSphere Datastore objects

  The composer_ad_id wants that the ID of the AD domain, in which the composer is a member server.

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  As side note, take a look at the Integration of PowerShell with view 5.0 white paper. Perhaps, it is not intended for the latest version of the view

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  PowerCLI development team