Basic commands to identify all the virtual machines with connected CDROMS

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  With the Select-Object cmdlet, like this

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  The Get - VM product objects that you pass through the pipeline ('|) ') to the Select-Object cmdlet.

  The Select-Object cmdlet allows you to select one or more of the properties of the objects it receives.

• script to remove all the virtual machines in a folder or a group resource

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• Utility to display all the virtual machines that have ISO attached to CD

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• Change the amount of vCPU in vCD deletes the virtual machine network connection in vCenter

  
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  deviceName = > ' '.

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  [1]

  Is this actually retrieve ALL virtual machines first and then filter on the second resource pool (in which case it would be 'slow')?

  I also have this:

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  $myRP.extensiondata.vm

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  [2]

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  Kind regards

  marc0

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  Right-click in your cluster, change the settings. Select 'Virtual Machine Options' under 'Vmware HA' and choose the host response of insulation desired for the entire cluster or individual VM. If you do not have network connections redundant between your ESX machines, you probably want the virtual machine for when you need to do maintenance or your network switch died. You should probably also disable HA while doing maintenance. You should consider to build network redundancy in the case of a production environment.

  I hope that helps!

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  Try this, it should give the blue files

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• Find all the virtual machines attached to a specific ISO on the data store?

  Hello

  I can't delete some files on our data warehouses. According to me, that question is b/c, that some virtual machines are connected over. How can I find on what virtual machines are connected to the ISO files?

  Thanks in advance,

  J

  Download the free RVTools and run it.  Save the report to Excel and the "tabvCD" tab review