Deleting a virtual machine

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• Deletes a virtual machine of vCenter possible?

  Hi all.

  We used to be a Horizon view manual pool composed of virtual machines
  from vCenter server. In a single operation for removal of VM in view, we

  wrong selected pool and confirmed the deletion. The

  operation put merrily and when we realized the error, we

  find vsphere client that all VMs funds (a lot of them

  were running) in the manual pool view both were removed from the inventory

  and from the disc in vCenter server.

  This offends and confuses us. It is commonly accepted that it is
  Cannot delete a virtual machine running of vCenter: vSphere client no
  won't give you a possibility to do so, and doing so in a CROWD ends by default.
  But the view above disaster might suggest otherwise.

  I have two questions:
  1. is it possible to delete a virtual machine running of vCenter?
  2. If so, how to prevent in vCenter?
  3. (somewhat off topic) is it possible to come up with any hacking or

  This makes it impossible to remove vm disk Office while being

  able to manipulate the view of the pool? We prefer to rather in vCenter.

  =====================================
  The mistake that we made to remove all the Horizon view desktop VMs:
  1. login to VMware view Horizon administrator.
  2. based on the inventory, select the pool.
  3. in the view of the pool, select the tab "inventory."
  4. Select and right click on a desktop PC, select 'delete pool... '. »
  5. confirm the deletion.

  Software used:
  vCenter Server: 5.5.0, 1945274
  View of the horizon: 5.3.1 generation-1634134

  Kind regards
  Nathalie Sun

  Post edited by: sunrenjie6

  Hello Sun Nathalie,

  Finally, I was able to create your question on my test bench, but as I said earlier, it is not possible to remove a power on the virtual machine, which was true. When I deleted the pool which consists of power on VM, I saw in the VC that VM were power off first and delete.

  I also talk to the team from the horizon and they said that this device is designed this way to support several other features. To save accidental deletion of the s VM that they introduced the warning message.

  Sorry for your loss.

  Thank you

  DJ

• How to delete a virtual machine in a script

  
  Hello

  I want to delete a virtual machine with a VCO script, I wouldn't use the action item named destroyVM. I explain why I wouldn't use, because in my script, I do this action:

  1. I list all VM in a specific folder name is different date servername-today ' today and powered OFF.

  2. I would destroy each VM in the list.

  But when I would simply test the following command:

  System.getModule("com.vmware.library.vc.vm").destroyVm ("VMName");

  I get the following error message:

  TypeError: Cannot read property "runtime" undefined (name of the dynamic Script Module: destroyVm #52993)

  I search on google and VMware blog, I can't find anything to help me!

  If someone has an idea, you are welcomed to answer me.

  Thank you in advance

  Good day

  Best regards

  Christophe

  Hello

  If you have access to vm.name or vm.runtime, you can access the vmobject.

  Therefore, you don't have to search again. I'm confused...

  (1.) what is folderObject?

  2.) check your if condition. It is not '&' what you want, but «&»

  (3.) getAllVMsMatchingRegexp() returns an array of vmobjects, not a single vmobject. VM names are NOT unique.

  Maybe a small example can help:

  var vmArray = VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines();
  for (var vmIndex in vmArray)
  {
      if ((vmArray[vmIndex].runtime.powerState == VcVirtualMachinePowerState.poweredOff) && (vmArray[vmIndex].name == "SCT-Test-01_12_2013"))
      {
          System.getModule("com.vmware.library.vc.vm").destroyVm(vmArray[vmIndex]);
      }
  }
  

• Delete the virtual machine to the specified date

  I'm trying to write a script to remove a virtual computer on a certain date.  Currently, I want people to add this in the name of the virtual machine "VMname_Delete-/ 1/1/14", I then search for the virtual computer with:

  Get - VM | where {$_.name - cmatch "Delete-\d\/\d\/\d"}

  With that, I'm sure that the correct VM is selected, and I tested it with virtual machines to make sure.  Now comes the hardest part (at least for me), I want to take the date to which belongs the VM name, convert it to a DateTime and then compare it to the current date.  If they match, I want to remove the virtual machine.  I tried something in the sense of:

  Get - VM | where {$_.name - cmatch "Delete-\d\/\d\/\d"} | foreach {$_ .name-split "-"}

  Which of course divide the table edge, and on tests, I had an output similar to:

  VM_Delete

  01/01/14

  Of course, now I don't know how to finish the rest.  I thought that the script would be something like:

  Get - VM | where {$_.name - cmatch "Delete-\d\/\d\/\d"} | {foreach}

  If (($_.name-split «-»)-[DateTime] - game (get-date-format ' MM/dd/yy'))

  {Remove-VM - VM $_ - DeletePermanently}

  }

  I don't see the logic in my head, but of course, I just can't write they way I think it should go.  Any help is appreciated.

  Perhaps you could do something in this direction

  $now = get-Date

  Get - VM | where {$_.name - cmatch "Delete-\d\/\d\/\d"} | {foreach}

  $dt = [datetime]($_.) Name.Split('-') [1])

  If ($dt - lt $now) {}

  Remove-VM - VM $_ - DeletePermanently

  }

  }

  With the use of the index ([1]), we select the date part of the name of the virtual computer.

  Then we have "cast" the string into a DateTime object.

  Note that typeface could cause problems, depending on the culture settings you use.

  Worse, divide you the date on the character string ' / ' and then generate the DateTime object as follows

  $now = get-Date

  Get - VM | where {$_.name - cmatch "Delete-\d\/\d\/\d"} | {foreach}

  $dummy, $year $day, $month = $_. Name.Split('-') [1]. Split('/')

  $dt = get-Date-day $day - month $month-year $year

  If ($dt - lt $now) {}

  Remove-VM - VM $_ - DeletePermanently

  }

  }

• WS8... Delete the virtual machine list

  I have 8 Workstation for Windows (running on Windows 7 x 64), just put at level towards the new generation today. The other day, I deleted a VM by going to my directory and just delete the VM folder. Now 8 Workstation, it still shows the VM it but when I click it, it gives me an error (not found) as it should.

  If I right click on this missing virtual machine, it gives me just an option to play. How can I remove these virtual machines in the list if there is not a virtual machine it more? Is there a file I can edit or a parameter somewhere? I have searched but can't see to find.

  I am looking for and looked through 10 pages here and not see this question, unless I missed it, so please give me a link and close this post.

  Thank you!

  Edit
  C:\Documents and Settings\userApplication Data\VMware\inventory.vmls

  and if still necessary
  C:\Documents and Settings\userApplication Data\VMware\preferences.ini

• Question to delete the virtual machine

  Hi all

  ESXi 4.0 and 4.1

  1. when I "delete VM from disk", why sometimes the record (with disk vmdk files) are not deleted? Is this a normal behavior?

  2. If the size of the virtual machine is 100 GB, can I expect that there will be 100 GB of space released in the data store?

  Thank you.

  Fajar.

  (1) why vmdk can be detached? What is the cause?

  1 - in fact the only one - is that the virtual disk has been manually detached.

  (2) why ESXi don't simply delete the entire folder when you are prompted to "remove disc"? You can probably avoid this kind of problem.

  For security reasons, only files that are known to belong to the virtual machine will be removed. The problems you get with deleting too many files is generally much more severe than the one you if a file is not deleted.

  I check the file against the inventory, but it becomes tiring when the folder is located in the shared data store, I check against several hosts.

  In 99% of cases (have you seen, I did not use the word "generally") ' delete drive ' will delete all files related to the virtual machine. In the case of a shared storage you don't have to check on each host, since, in the majority of cases (again once I have use 'usually) all guests have access to the same storage.

  Another reason why the - mainly the vmdk files - files cannot be deleted, is when they are locked. For example, by a hanging backup process.

  André

• Is it possible to delete a virtual machine by UUID

  I'm trying to script for power down and remove a virtual machine by UUID, is it possible?

  Hi skyjacker99,

  This should work:

  Get-VM | where {(Get-View $_.Id).config.uuid -eq ""} | Remove-VM
  

  Kind regards

  Markus

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

  
  It is a problem of crazy that we discovered, and I wanted to know if anyone had seen him.

  First of all, we miss the following software versions:

  vCD: 5.1.1.867405

  vCenter: 5.0.0 Build 913577

  ESXi: 5.0.0 build 1024429

  If you go to vCloud Director and change the material properties of an existing virtual machine (Powered off) any change in the amount of vCPU (to something new), inside of vCenter status of the network will change to the port group Standard (inactive) none.

  
  Even if, before making the change, the virtual machine is connected to a distributed port group, and works well.

  We now display an SR to VMware, but sometimes it is worth running this by the community to see if other people have already seen or indeed want to test on their deployment.

  
  Thanks in advance

  We have solved the problem now.

  The reason why that we faced this problem is because we used the wrong order in the API.

  You must ensure that you use the undeploy command when you work with the vCD API otherwise you end up with a disconnected network card.

• Questions about the archive/delete a virtual machine for later retrieval.

  We run VSphere 4.0 in a 10-node cluster.    We have a VM we want to remove the system, but we want to archive it so that we can restore it later if necessary.

  Initially, I was counting on stop the virtual machine, the navigation data store and copy the files to a local disk using the button 'Download' on the data store.  Then after the copy, by an "out of disk" on the VM on VCenter.

  Then later if we need the machine back, download the files and do a 'add to inventory' on the VMDK file.

  However, when I did the download, I noticed that VMDK files on the downloaded folder had names with "-flat" added to them.  So 'server.vmdk' became 'server - flat hard '.

  If I copy these files with the '-dish "in the name in VMWare later, they will come to OK?

  Or, given that I'm trying to (archive a virtual machine), is there a better way to do this?

  Your comments would be appreciated.

  Mike O'Donnell.

  That is right.  "Every hard disk to a virtual machine consists of a pair of files hard. One is a text file containing descriptive data on the virtual hard disk, and the second is the actual content of this disc. For example, a virtual machine named examplevm has a drive attached to it. This disc consists of a file less than 1 KB examplevm.vmdk descriptor and a 10 GB examplevm - flat hard flat file, that contains the contents of the virtual machine. ' - of Ko 1002511.

• Impossible to delete the virtual machine that is stuck at 95%, can you all help me to solve this problem.

  

  Thanks for the help guyz, I restarted the virtual service centre and the problem was solved.

• Delete a virtual machine

  Hello

  I must be missing it.

  But where is a task of delete_vm in the managed object VirtualMachine?

  Chris

  You can use the following syntax:

  void deleteVM

  {

  my $task = $my_vm-> Destroy_Task();

  
  

  My $task_complete = 0;

  My $task_error = 0;

  My $task_view;

  
  

  until the ($task_complete)

  {

  task_view = Vim::get_view (mo_ref-online $task, properties-online ['info']);

    

  If ($task_view-> info-> status-> val eq 'success')

  {

  $task_complete = 1;
  

  }
  

  If ($task_view-> info->State->val eq 'running')

  {

  following;

  }

  If ($task_view-> info->State->val eq 'pending')

  {

  following;

  }

  If ($task_view-> info->State->val eq 'error')

  {

  $task_complete = 1;

  $task_error = 1;
  

  }

  
  

  sleep 1;
  

  }
  

  }
  

  Hope that I did typos

• VMs vCAC deleted using vSphere.  Virtual machines still appear in vCAC

  I deleted the virtual machines created in vCAC with vSphere, but they still appear in vCAC.

  How can I remove these vCAC VMs?

  This seems to be the correct procedure.  I ended up back to a previous on my machines management snapshot since it's a beta environment.

• Clone a virtual machine / move to folder / delete VM / as a Powershell Script as a scheduled task ends with "ongoing"

  Hi all,.

  I would kindly ask your help with a script that needs to run as a scheduled task. It is functional, but does not correct and little need for love at the end...

  I want to create a script that

  • find a virtual machine with a pattern on its behalf (realized and works)
  • delete a virtual machine with a reason given in his name (completed works)
  • create a clone of a virtual machine (completed works)
  • move that created clone (upstairs) and move it to a folder named (open)
    or the fact in the clone process
    
    

  I realized thus far:

  Add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
  # Import CSV backup
  $backupinfo = import-Csv C:\scripts\vm_backup\test.csv
  VCenter servername #Set
  $vcenter_server = "name servers".
  #Connect to vCenter
  SE connect-VIServer $vcenter_Server

  # BEGIN OLD BACKUP CLEANUP
  #Select all old backups
  $old_backups = get - VM *-backups
  {if ($old_backups)}
  {foreach ($backup_vm to $old_backups)
  Get - VM $backup_vm | Remove-VM - DeleteFromDisk-confirm: $false
  }
  }

  # START QUEUING NEW CLONES
  #Increment through CSV
  {foreach ($customer to $backupinfo)
  $target_host is get-VMHost-name $customer. TargetHost
  If {($target_host)
  Date format #Set for clone names
  $date = get-Date-Format 'YYYY-MM-dd ".
  Date format #Set for emails
  $time = (get-Date - f "Hh: mm")
  #Get SourceVM
  $vm is get - VM $customer. SourceVM
  # Create new snapshot clone
  $cloneSnap = $vm | New-Snapshot - name "instant Clone.
  # Get the managed object display
  $vmView = $vm | Get-View
  # Get the managed folder object reference
  $cloneFolder = $vmView.parent
  # Construction specification clone
  $cloneSpec = new-object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec
  # Make linked disc specification?
  $cloneSpec.Snapshot = $vmView.Snapshot.CurrentSnapshot
  #Set VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
  $cloneSpec.Location = new-object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
  #Thin commissioning
  $cloneSpec.Location.Transform = [Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateTransformation]: sparse
  #Target data store
  $cloneSpec.Location.Datastore = (get-Datastore-name $customer. TargetDS | Get - View). MoRef
  #Target host
  $cloneSpec.Location.Host = (get-VMHost-name $customer. TargetHost | Get - View). MoRef
  #Target list of resources, from the first VM in the TargetHost
  $cloneSpec.Location.Pool = (get-VMHost-name $customer. TargetHost | Get - VM | Select-Object - 1 first | Get - View). ResourcePool
  Name of clone #Set
  $cloneName = ' date of $vm-$- $temps - backup ".
  # Create clone
  $clone_task = $vmView.CloneVM_Task ($cloneFolder, $cloneName, $cloneSpec)
  # Remove snapshot created for clone, will automatically queues
  Get-Snapshot - VM (VM-Get-name $customer. SourceVM) - name $cloneSnap | Remove-Snapshot - confirm: $False
  }
  }

  # Move folder in VM Clone
  Move-VM - VM * - backups - Destination Clone

  VCentre #Disconnect
  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  The script itself runs so far and does what it should, but the scheduled task is always "in process of execution". Now, I created a work around in this way, I have finished the task after two hours of running; but there must be a better solution that works properly.
  As well as the part with the rise of the virtual machine.

  Could you maybe help me or have a good idea how to solve this problem?

  Thanks in advance

  Try again with

  PowerShell-no interactive - noprofile - executionpolicy override - file C:\scripts\scriptname.ps1

• Remove/delete virtual machines based on creation Date

  Hello

  I'm fairly new to PowerCLI and I'm not a coder strong. I've been reviewing through communities and [web] inter and this time, Google is not my best friend.

  I'm trying to make a script that deletes VMs of the disk based on the time of creation of virtual machines and the unique string in the VM name to avoid deleting other virtual machines then those I want. I would like to modify this script to remove the AD and SCCM objects, however, it's just a list of wishes

  You may be wondering why I don't want to do something like this and the answer is for testing purposes.

  I have a group trying to test applications in a lab environment and we want to make sure that the virtual machines are removed within 3 weeks being created without doing it manually.

  Any help with this would be greatly appreciated

  Then, you could make the Where clause more specific, something like

  where {$_ -is [VMware.Vim.VmCreatedEvent] -and $_.Vm.Name -like "LAB*} | %{
  

• Automatic deletion/removal of the virtual machine to inventory

  Hello

  I need to create a clone of a virtual machine once a month on the storage separate from the original machine. Before that the time has come for the next monthly clone I have to delete the virtual machine but also to remove the inventory. I need to do without leaving the clone deleted in an orphaned State as the next clone turns out to be defective for the double.

  I set up a scheduled task to clone the machine then next month a cron job to run a vmware-cmd - s unsubscribe & lt; path to vmx & gt; followed by an rm - r & lt; path to vm & gt;. It does everything I need except remove the virtual virtual machine inventory.

  Did someone knows a way to remove it completely (as if to make a destroy) or cloning without adding it to the inventory (this is not really a need for us).

  Any help would be great,

  Mick

  With the command: vmware-cmd - s unregister

  You will need to restart the mgmt-vmware and vmware-vpxa service in order for the front end to pick up the change.

  Or you can use VC SDK.

  For VI Perl Toolkit:

  http://www/support/developer/viperltoolkit/viperl15/doc/vmregister.html

  Perl vmregister.pl - url https://vchost/sdk/vimService - username - Word blah administrator password - transaction undo - vmname TESTVM

  PowerShell (but in this example, the virtual machine is removed):

  http://myitforum.com/CS2/blogs/yli628/archive/2008/08/19/PowerShell-script-to-remove-virtual-machine-from-VMware-infrastructure.aspx

  André