Extract alarm VCenter via PowerCLI

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• The change is triggered in VCenter via PowerCLI

  Good afternoon everyone, I am trying to automate the change of an alarm with VCenter 5 trigger.  Currently when users use 75% or more the storage on the local hard disk, I get an alarm for "Datastore Disk use.  I want to change the warning from 75% to 85% and the alert from 85% to 90%.  I have been using VSphere PowerCLI for many tasks for adding and configuring the hosts and their storage, networks, dns, etc...  So, I understand the basics.  I can't understand how to do something else then get the name of the alarm.  Any help would be appreciated.

  Hello, ThatMattGuy-

  You can change an element of the alarm using the API.  You should be able to use the following to update the caveat - and the percentages of trigger alert at 85% and 90% respectively by using:

  ## get the .NET View object for the Alarm of the given name$viewAlarmToUpdate = Get-View -Id (Get-AlarmDefinition -Name "Datastore usage on disk").Id
  
  ## copy the existing AlarmInfo item from the current alarm definition$specNewAlarmInfo = $viewAlarmToUpdate.Info
  
  ## update the two desired properties on the MetricAlarmExpression (http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc_50/vim.alarm.MetricAlarmExpression.html)$specNewAlarmInfo.Expression.Expression[0].yellow = 8500$specNewAlarmInfo.Expression.Expression[0].red = 9000
  
  ## reconfigure the alarm with the new threshold values$viewAlarmToUpdate.ReconfigureAlarm($specNewAlarmInfo)
  

  It takes AlarmInfo to the definition of existing alarm, updates the two values you mentioned and the uses of the method ReconfigureAlarm() of the alarm.

  And, then to display the new values, you check the definition of alarm triggers tab in vCenter, updating the view on the object data and echoing, as:

  ## update the View object$viewAlarmToUpdate.UpdateViewData("Info")## display new values for the alarm$viewAlarmToUpdate.Info.Expression.Expression[0]
  

  How do I?

• How to calculate the IOPS datastore / s and latency via Powercli?

  Hi all!

  I want to calculate the IOPS / s (RO/RW) and the latency of the data via Powercli store, but I cant' find this metric in Vcenter (in the data store tab) and see no metric for data via the cmdlet Get-Stat store.

  How can we measure IOPS / s and latency of data store?  For example I know veeam monitor this information - http://cdn.swcdn.net/creative/v16.8/images/screenshots/products/VM/Lg/EN/VMan60-Orion-Datastore-Top_Lg_960x540.jpg

  I know, I can get this VM or vmhost metric, but I need information on the data store.

  How to measure for IOPS / s and latency of data properly store?

  Thanks in advance!

  These measures are collected on ESXi nodes, entity would need to have the ESXi nodes where these data warehouses are connected.

  You can use the Instance property to filter.

  Under the PerformanceManager , you see all the measures for each indicator it indicates under which entity this metric is collected.

  

  And Yes, the cmdlet Get-inventory returns no data warehouses.

  There is a little, aggregated metric for data warehouses, I'll have to find an alternative for those.

  Nice catch!

• Export data of material state via PowerCLI

  Hello

  I was just wondering if anyone have used PowerCLI for export the xml information of material status for a host to vCenter?

  I'm not really familiar with PowerShell and PowerCLI so I don't know if this is even possible but it would help us to completely automate some pilot third party verification.

  Thank you for your time and help

  Matt

  You can check the driver versions when you are connected to a host without the need for an XML export.

  I've attached a quick script and dirty to write versions of all the drivers in the console.

  Main points of the script:

  Connect-VIServer - Connect to vCenter

  Get-VMHost - lists associated Hosts the vCenter

  Get-EsxCli - access to the host ESX CLI

  $EsxCli.system.module.get("$DRIVER_NAME") - retrieves the VMKernel module (if the system knows about it) by name

  It's just the best way to show how to get information about the drivers. Basically you just connect the vCenter Server via PowerCLI, then connect to hosts one by one. When you are connected to a host, use EsxCli to obtain the driver information (module).

  I also forgot to add a line at the end of the script, so here it is: ' $DISCONNECT = Disconnect-VIServer $VCENTER_SERVER-force - confirm: $FALSE.

  -Ryan d. King

• Collect information of the NIC via PowerCLI

  Hi all

  We need to collect the following information about all the cards in all hosts via PowerCLI:

  -name

  -manufacturer

  -version of the driver

  -firmware version

  -MAC address

  We know the esxcli method, but it would take a lot of time that we have many hosts and they would send an alarm to deactivate the lock mode and activating SSH and it would be extremely long and inefficient.

  While Google search, we found this method through Get-EsxCLI (http://jreypo.wordpress.com/tag/powercli/), but for some reason that I can not even list the NICs.

  PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI > $esxcli = Get-EsxCli - vmhost host

  PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI > $esxcli.system.module.get

  TypeNameOfValue: VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Util10Ps.EsxCliExtensionMethod

  OverloadDefinitions: {vim. Get EsxCLI.system.module.get.ModuleDetails (string module)}

  MemberType: CodeMethod

  Value: vim. Get EsxCLI.system.module.get.ModuleDetails (string module)

  Name: get

  IsInstance: true

  PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI > $esxcli.system.module.list

  TypeNameOfValue: VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Util10Ps.EsxCliExtensionMethod

  OverloadDefinitions: {vim. EsxCLI.system.module.list.Module [] list (boolean active, responsible boolean)}

  MemberType: CodeMethod

  Value: vim. List of [] EsxCLI.system.module.list.Module (active boolean, boolean loaded)

  Name: list

  IsInstance: true

  PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI > $esxcli.network.nic.list

  TypeNameOfValue: VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Util10Ps.EsxCliExtensionMethod

  OverloadDefinitions: [] list() {vim.EsxCLI.network.nic.list.Nic}

  MemberType: CodeMethod

  Value: vim.EsxCLI.network.nic.list.Nic [] list()

  Name: list

  IsInstance: true

  Can someone help me? Thanks in advance!

  Add parentheses to the method call

  $esxcli.network.nic.list)

• How to add a NIC E1000E Server 2012 VM via PowerCLI?

  Hello

  I am trying to understand how a NIC E1000E added to a Windows Server VM 2012 and wildly without success. None of the current documentation for PowerCLI 5.1 references even its existence.  When I use the NetworkAdapter Get it returns the NICs E1000E as 'unknown '.  I tried to add a NETWORK card with a - Type of 'Unknown' and he simply added a network card. "VMXNET' regular

  I test against 5.0.0(Build 821926) hosts who can deploy Server 2012 with E1000E NIC via vCenter and PowerCLI 5.0.1 & 5.1 with the same results.  Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated I'm out of ideas at the moment.

  See you soon!

  I just posted work with E1000E NIC in PowerCLI.

  Try it and tell me if it works for you?

• How to calculate the CPU Ready on Cluster DRS via Powercli?

  Hi all!

  I have a DRS Vsphere cluster. I want to know what is the value of the loan of CPU I have in my group.

  For example, I get 20% of powercli value, it is normal for the cluster, but if I have 100% or more, I have a problem.

  How to achieve via Powercli? And how to calculate the percentage values correctly?

  I know, I can get all values of CPU Ready of VMs cluster, but IT is not the same thing, I need overall value of CPU Ready.

  Thanks in advance!

  As far as I know you can get the cpu.ready.summation for ESXi nodes or VMs.

  For a cluster, you will need to get the value of each node in the cluster ESXi and then take the average.

  The metric cpu.radey.summation is expressed in milliseconds.

  To get a percentage, you need to calculate the percentage of loan period during the interval during which it was measured.

  Something like this (this will give the loan current %)

  $clusterName = "mycluster.

  $stat = "cpu.ready.summation".

  $esx = get-Cluster-name $clusterName | Get-VMHost

  $stats = get-Stat-entity $esx - Stat $stat - Realtime - MaxSamples 1 - forum «»

  $readyAvg = $stats | Measure-object-property - average value. Select - ExpandProperty average

  $readyPerc = $readyAvg / ($stats [0].) IntervalSecs * 1000)

  Write-Output "Cluster $($clusterName) - CPU % loan $(' {0:p}'-f $readyPerc).

• Help, I changed the password of root ESXi via powerCli, now I can not connect with the web client or the console.

  Help, I've changed the root ESXi via powerCli password, now I can not connect with the web client or the console, but I can still connect to powerCli. The command I used was;

  SE connect-VIServer esxihostname-user root - password newpasswd

  This production network btw, I have connected to each host and run the above command, these ESXi hosts are not on a domain

  y at - it something I have left out. I really appreciate any assistance that you people can provide.

  Thank you, Joe

  It is probably a longshot, but a lot of things in the land of windows is not sensitive to capital letters as Unix is.  I wonder if your new password you put through powerCLI mixed uppercase in it and if the capitalization was abandoned by command windows powerCLI Analyzer, or he interpreted as all capitals or something.   If you can still get through the powerCLI you could try to reset the password again to something simple without capitalization mixed case and if your password on ESXi strategy requires a special character, try something different than a "$", like a "_" (I find that a '_' is less likely than some other special characters (, as a '-' or a ' / ' to cause problems with analyzers.).

  Edit:

  Another thing, you can try before playing with the password once again, is to create a different username ESXi using powerCLI and see if the password ends up what you think, it should be, and if you can get with the client vsphere using it.  In this way, you can find out if there are some problems with certain characters or Cap through command powerCLI Analyzer without losing your remaining root by powerCLI access.  After some tests, you can understand what went wrong with your initial password change and may be able to fix it with less risk of losing access.  I also assume that you can not create a new username on ESXi who is able to change the root password no matter what authority give you it, otherwise, you could create a new username with PowerCLI, then connect to the client vsphere with it and change the password to root from there.

• Define the IP addresses on guest via PowerCLI RHEL 6 OS?

  I try the IP address subnet value and the gateway on RHEL6 Guest OS via PowerCLI. Howerver his failure with "bash: / tmp/powerclivmware0: permission Denied"

  $NetInt = get-VMGuestNetworkInterface - VM $VM. VMName - GuestUser $USR - GuestPassword $PWD

  Game-VMGuestNetworkInterface - VMGuestNetworkInterface $NetInt - $USR - GuestPassword $PWD - Ip $VM GuestUser. $VM.Netmask - IP-Gateway $VM subnet mask. Gateway - Dns $DNS1, DNS2 $

  It works fine on RHEL5 but not RHEL6.

  Does anyone have experience with this works for RHEL6 get? Any help would be appreciated!

  Model Security Configurations has problem.

  This occurs if the permissions to run executable files are denied to /tmp/

  Problem solved.

• vCenter Orchestrator & PowerCLI

  Hello

  Much to my company are excited to vCO.  The hope is we can avoid using PowerCLI and just use vCO. I don't think that's realistic.  Am I wrong? VCO is supposed to do everything that we can do via PowerCLI, but without having to learn Powershell?

  Thank you

  T

  In my opinion, PowerCLI and vCO are 2 products which are used for different purposes 2.

  As we mentioned in our VMworld, the blog of automation Triangle by Andy Troup session gives a good explanation.

  To give an example:

  • to migrate a single data store A to B data store, I would use a script PowerCLI
  • If the same process must be performed on a regular basis, I would incorporate the PowerCLI script in a stream of vCO.

  If my humble opinion, it is not a choice PowerCLI or vCO, but earlier a PowerCLI and vCO collaboration.

  If you must use the product only on the best suits your needs.

  See seamless with PowerCLI and PowerShell plugin integration for an explanation of how these two products can work together.

• Cultivate a disc of virtual machines via PowerCLI

  Hello

  I'm looking to cultivate a few volumes on some servers via PowerCLI. I got the code to extend successfully the volume inside the prompt below OS once I increase it configured size through the user interface.

  Hard drive get "name VM | where {$_.} {Name - eq ' hard disk 2 "} | Together-hard drive - CapacityGB 20 - ResizeGuestPartition-confirm: $false

  My question is:

  Is it possible to increase the size put in service of a disk via PowerCLI I could run before the above code that extends the volume inside the guest OS?

  Thanks in advance for any help!

  As each correct answer, I'll have to start with "it depends".

  If this isn't the vdisk that contains the system partition, you can simply use the hard drive Set cmdlet with the CapacityGB parameter. See example 2.

  If it is the system partition vdisk, you need to use the parameter HelperVM of the cmdlet Set - hard drive .

  Note that the virtual machine and the HelperVM both must be switched off!

• Problem deleting snapshot via PowerCLI

  I can see the snapshot via command line, but not through the vSphere Client.

  Cannot remove Instant said.

  > Get - VM | Get-Snapshot | Select the virtual machine, created name

  VM                         Name                                 Created

  sp3vtst Scheduled_Snapshot 11/06/2013 16:35:08

  Impossible to remove it:

  > Remove-Snapshot - Snapshot $Scheduled_Snapshot

  Remove-Snapshot: failed to validate the argument on the parameter "snapshot." The

  argument is null. Supply a non-null argument, and try the command again.

  On line: 1 char: 27

  + Delete-Snapshot - Snapshot $Scheduled_Snapshot

  +                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [delete-screenshot], ParameterBin)

  dingValidationException

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutom

  ation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.RemoveSnapshot

  Of course, IE my my $Scheduled_Snapshot setting is incorrect.

  I tried without the $, between single quotes and double, na - da

  As I said, I'm not in the client.  Could be false information of the command Get - VM?

  I tried to delete the virtual machine to inventory, time, create a snapshot and remove all of the customer.  Don't know what to try next.

  I have installation jobs to take pictures before the updates of Windows.  Now I would like to delete them via PowerCLI.

  Thank you

  D

  Try it like this

  Get-VM-name sp3vtst | Get-Snapshot - name 'Scheduled_Snapshot ' | Remove-Snapshot - confirm: $false

• Run the package in Guest remotely via PowerCLI

  Hi all

  I'm sure that I came across a script that can run a batch file in Windows remote clients using PowerCLI, but for the life of me I can't find it.

  I have 4 Windows VMS, who have the same connection credentials, they have a test.bat file in the same place, I need a way to execute commands remotely via PowerCLI simultaneously, is - it possible?

  It seems that the sqlio command is not found. May be that the directory is not in the Path variable in this OS.

  Try again with the full path to the executable sqlio.

• ESXi5.1 - CDP-settings via PowerCLI

  Hello

  It is possible to set the CDP-settings on an ESXi5.1 on several hosts via PowerCLI?

  And if then...?

  Thanks in advance!

  Chakoe

  I guess that (wildguess), that your vSwitches are called vSwitch. Misspelling? Case-sensitive?

• Enable SSH via Powercli

  Is there a way you can toggle ssh via Powercli

  Hello, vicdaw-

  Welcome to the communities.

  Yes, you can turn on/off (start/stop), SSH (and VMHost services in general) with the cmdlets Start-VMHostService and VMHostService Stop .  As such:

  ## start the SSH service on the given hostGet-VMHostService -VMHost myVMHost0 | ?{$_.Label -eq "SSH"} | Start-VMHostService
  
  ## stop the SSH service on the given hostGet-VMHostService -VMHost myVMHost0 | ?{$_.Label -eq "SSH"} | Stop-VMHostService -Confirm:$false
  

  If you want to change the strategy of starting services, you can use Set-VMHostService. Enjoy.