Find a property-based Virtual Machines

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• Find vCenter in a virtual machine is

  Hello

  We have 5 vCenters and it can be difficult to find a virtual machine at times. I do a script that connects to each vCenter, so I will try to find a "get - vm" command that will pull the vCenter as the virtual machine is in. But I'm not able to find it. Can someone tell me with PowerCli, how can I get the name of the vCenter a VM is in?

  Thank you

  Scott

  I could find in ExtensionData.Client.ServiceUrl

  Thank you.

• Folder path as a VM property - for virtual machines in a paralytic

  Hello

  I used the new-viproperty of LucD script to create a folder for each virtual computer property in my inventory. It works perfectly well for virtual machines, but not for virtual machines in a paralytic as these do not have a 'record' in powercli property. they report a $null value.

  Would be much appreciated if someone can help me to modify this script so it creates a VM property for the VMS and VMs in a paralytic?

  http://www.lucd.info/2012/05/18/folder-by-path/

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  New-VIProperty-Name'BlueFolderPath' -ObjectType 'VirtualMachine'-Value{

      param($vm)

      functionGet-ParentName{

          param($object)

          if($object.Folder){

              $blue= Get-ParentName$object.Folder

              $name= $object.Folder.Name

          }

          elseif($object.Parent -and$object.Parent.GetType().Name -like"Folder*"){

              $blue= Get-ParentName$object.Parent

              $name= $object.Parent.Name

          }

          elseif($object.ParentFolder){

              $blue= Get-ParentName$object.ParentFolder

              $name= $object.ParentFolder.Name

          }

          if("vm","Datacenters"-notcontains$name){

              $blue+ "/"+ $name

          }

          else{

              $blue

          }

      }

      (Get-ParentName$vm).Remove(0,1)

  }-Force| Out-Null

  Check if the new version works for you.

  New-VIProperty-name 'BlueFolderPath' - 'VirtualMachine' - value {ObjectType

  Param ($VM)

  Function Get-ParentName}

  Param ($Object)

  if($Object.) {Folder)

  $blue = get-ParentName $object. Folder

  $name = $object. Folder.Name

  }

  ElseIf($Object.) VApp) {}

  $blue = get-ParentName $object. VApp.ExtensionData.ParentFolder

  $name = $object. VApp.Name

  }

  ElseIf ($object - is [VMware.Vim.ManagedObjectReference]) {}

  $folder = get-VIObjectByVIView - MORef $object

  $blue = get-ParentName $folder. Parent

  $name = $folder. Name

  }

  ElseIf($Object.) Parent - and $object. Parent.GetType (). Name - as a ' file * ') {}

  $blue = get-ParentName $object. Parent

  $name = $object. Parent.Name

  }

  ElseIf($Object.) ParentFolder) {}

  $blue = get-ParentName $object. ParentFolder

  $name = $object. ParentFolder.Name

  }

  If ("vm", "Data centers" - notcontains $name) {}

  $blue + "/" + $name

  }

  else {}

  $blue

  }

  }

  (Get-ParentName $vm). Remove (0.1)

  } - Force | Out-Null

• Where to find the folder to virtual machines discovered?

  Hi all

  I have a current ESX environment running with ESX server 2 and I do backup with VCB and Symatnec START agent. I noticed sometimes when I look in the list of the VM VC popluates for me all by making backups some of the fall of the virtual machine in the discovered Virutal machine. Most of the virtual machine that are in this folder are virtual machines that have been restored from backups, but he is blind. Some end up in the folder, others do not?  How do you find this folder so you can move the machine virtual autour and why would some restored end of the Vm by here and not others?

  If you change your view of the inventory in vCenter hosts & cluster and models and virtual computers, this is where you will find the default folder called discovered virtual machines.  To create new folders just, you right-click and choose new folder, where you can drag and drop folder VM you want them to be.

  In addition, during the P2V process, I think that you can select the folder.  I know that you can when you deploy the new vm.

• Find out how many virtual machines you create a month

  I've been messing around with this script which was published on the vSphere PowerCLI blog but I can't do what I want it. I try to get the output to an html Web page results. Here is the code of the blog:

  Function Get-VMCreationReport {}

  Get - VM | {Group

  If ($_.) CustomFields-as -not $null) {}

  "{0:Y}" -f $_. CustomFields

  } else {}

  'Unknown'}}

  }

  I modified it as follows:

  #I have location set because I'm only pulling the VM to a specific host in a folder.

  $VMs = @(get-VM-emplacement "TEST")

  "$html = @".

  
  
  "@
  
  $html = ""test ' "

  $VMs | {Group

  if($_.) CustomFields-as -no $null)

  {$html = « {0:Y} » -f $_. CustomFields}

  else {}

  $html = 'Unknown'}

  }

  $html = "< / HTML >".

  $html > Test_run.html

  The problem is that the output is not posting on the html page. I can see when debug that code runs through the if loop to the right. Any ideas?

  SELECT is in fact an alias for Select-Object.

  Allways try (in this case to select)

  Get-Alias Select
  

  When you run a cmdlet you do not recognize.

  The dismantled line:

  -) put all the contents of $result in the pipeline

  -) of each object, select the following

  (-) the Name property. After a group object, the Name property contains the grouping field, in this case the date

  (-) A hash literal to calculate the following property. In this case, the number of elements in the array of the group, which is the number of guests

  (-) all resulting objects to the Select-Object are placed in the pipeline and converted by the ConvertTo-Html cmdlet to HTML

  -) add the result (the ConvertTo-Html cmdlet output) the existing contents of the variable $html

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• Using filters and Get - view to find virtual machines with a specific guest operating system.

  I have the following code snippet to find all virtual machines with the updated OS to ' Red Hat Enterprise Linux * "prompt. It does not work. If the filter is left out, I find myself with all virtual machines.

  The immediate question is the specs for the game ' Red Hat Enterprise Linux. " Originally from the "Performance Difference between GET - VM and GET-VIEW")

  http://www.batchworks.de/performance-difference-between-get-VM-and-get-view/ ).

  $ClusterFilter = Get-View -ViewType ClusterComputeResource -Property Name -Filter @{“Name” = $ClusterName } | select -ExpandProperty MoRef

  $VirtualMachines = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Config -SearchRoot $ClusterFilter

  
  The biggest problem for me is to understand for Get-View filter. I was capable of a bit of insight to gleen from the URL below, but I think what Miss me is the reference (Microsoft) for what is happening to the right of the equal sign. What is the correct terminology for this type of query expression / where the syntax is 'left' = 'straight' and keywords such as "-match" are not allowed.

  http://purple-screen.com/?Cat=3

  VMware vSphere 5.1

  http://Wannemacher.us/?p=259

  Regular expressions with Windows PowerShell

  Right in the filter expression is an RegEx expression, please allow for characters before and after the word Linux.

  And the name of the OS is Config.GuestFullName.

  I corrected the entries more early as well.

  $ClusterName = "^MyCluster$"$ClusterFilter = get-view -ViewType ClusterComputeResource -Property Name -Filter @{"Name" = $ClusterName } | select -ExpandProperty MoRefWrite-Host $ClusterFilter
  
  $VirtualMachinesNoFilter   = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Config -SearchRoot $ClusterFilter $VirtualMachinesWithFilter = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Config -SearchRoot $ClusterFilter -Filter @{"Config.GuestFullName"=".*Linux.*"}
  

• How to find the IP address of the virtual machines from the host Linux

  Hello

  Y at - it a tool that can resolve the IP address of the linux host running VMS, when using NAT and DHCP networking?

  I can find by logging on virtual machines, but I need to retrieve automatically these addresses for the host scripts will not have to be changed manually when IPs change.

  Thank you

  Host: Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit, WS6.5

  Probably the easiest solution is to use static IP addresses... Having said that, what I meant was:

  Each machine (real and virtual) has a unique MAC address. If I create a file (database type) with the name and the MAC address of each virtual machine, then I could use nmap or arp commands to get the IP address. For example, I create a table and put it in a file like this:

  VMName1 00:14:BF:19:45:61

  VMName2 00:0E:5 C: 1 has: 44:1E

  Name of the machine 3. etc.

  Then I could run a combination of arp and/or nmap to find the MAC address of active machines and their respective IP addresses. For example, running:

  sudo nmap - sP 10.0.2.0/24

  This gives on my local network:

  Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-08-14 18:09 EDT

  Host 10.0.2.1 seems to be upward.

  MAC address: 00:14:BF:19:45:61 (Cisco-Linksys)

  Host 10.0.2.99 appears to be upward.

  MAC address: 00:10:83:BB:08:99 (Hewlett-Packard Company)

  Host 10.0.2.130 appears to be upward.

  MAC address: 00:0E:5 C: 1 has: 44:1E (Motorola BCS)

  Host 10.0.2.134 appears to be upward.

  Nmap done: 256 IPS (4 hosts upward) scanned at 3.71 seconds

  So, now, I know that the machine VMName1 with MAC 00:14:BF:19:45:61 has IP 10.0.2.1 and is it my Linksys router.

  Just a thought.

• How to install the virtual machine tools

  I am new to this, and it's fun to find how to do everything. I'm stuck now, so need some help, I did search but could not find definitive answers.

  I have ESXi installation, it will run on a dedicated slide. I have a windows-based virtual machine that I use to test.

  I downloaded the iso of VM Tools for Linux to install on the server so that I can push to the client virtual machines. I can't understand how to install the VM on the server tools so that I have the option in the console to push to turn the VM to the client tools.

  Is there something I'm completely missing? The iso is for linux, which is the server. I assumed it would be installed on the server that would allow me to push to windows clients.

  Help, please!

  VMware tools for Windows is already included in the installation of ESX.

  Customer Infrastructure using, go to the console of the virtual Windows computer and logon. Right-click of the virtual machine in the inventory on the left, then select "install/upgrade VMware tools. If Autorun is enabled the installation starts automatically, if not the Windows.iso is loaded into the virtual computer CD-ROM drive and you have to run setup.exe.

  André

• Get use of the resources of all virtual machines in a cluster

  Hello

  I have developed a measure of capacity management report that collects all the use of the resources of the virtual machines in a datacenter. The function that collects it looks like this:

  def hostMemoryConsumed =]

  def memoryConsumed = 0.0f

  def memoryGranted = 0.0f

  VMs. each() {}

  VM->

  try {}

  memoryConsumed += vm.host.memory.consumed.current.average / 1024.0f<----- how="" to="" do="" this="" to="" get="" from="">

  memoryGranted += vm.host.memory.capacity.current.average / 1024.0f

  }

  {} catch (NullPointerException e)

  }

  VMS is a function of type parameter VMS VMW

  The works above for virtual machines in the data center, but I need it to be after cluster. I can find a cluster of virtual machines, but I'm having trouble with referring to specific values for example consumed memory and capacity.

  If I change the type parameter: VMW Cluster how the metric reference would look like (see the try {})?

  I don't think that a query will help me.

  Thanks in advance

  Erik Alm

  If you want to do for a cluster, you can just get the list of virtual machines in a cluster of first and passing in your script.  If you have a function for a VMWCluster you can add a parameter for "vmwCluster" that is underneath and it should give you a table (topologyObjects) that has all the virtual machines in the cluster.

  QS = server.get ("QueryService") / / query Service

  tquery = qs.createStatement("!) (' VMWVirtualMachine where esxServer.parent.name = "+" ' "+ vmwCluster +" "" ") .setQueryTopologyObjects (true);

  topologyObjects = qs.executeStatement (tquery) .getTopologyObjects)

• Virtual machines do not get IP address from the DHCP server

  Hello! I just spend Xenserver to ESXi. Created a couple of virtual machines and none of them gets an IP address from our DHCP server (DHCP server is a physical PC), and instead, they get a number of internal 192.168.x.y allowing connection to the internet.

  Looks like a way to do this is to install a virtual machine that is a router, as M0n0wall, and route traffic to connect to the external network and finally to access internet. But this is not what I have to do.

  I need to have virtual machines that are server to get an IP reserved for our DHCP server, and then our local windows client should be able to access it directly.

  I searched on google and forums for this but I can't seem to find how to configure virtual machines to directly belong to our local network.

  I thought that VMware would have a simpler way to do so than XenServer, but I was stuck on this one day now and really frustrated as I get not before with this project, stuck on this little problem... sigh...

  Thanks for your help.

  GER.

  ESXi does not IP addresses to the virtual machines it host - if the virtual machines are not able to access your physical network than that of the thw two virtual machines acts as a DHCP server - now to the question of network - if you are not able to reach the virtual machines on the physical network or achieve fitness network virtual machines , then there is a problem with the physical connection to the ESXi host, possibly the configuration of the physical port that connects to the - is a way to test this theory to assign an IP address on the same network that the management port - if you are able to access the virtual machine, then you know that the problem is with the switch port.

• Cannot install XP updates in a new virtual machine

  I have vmware 8.0.4 on my work desktop and laptops computers, who have all two Win 7 with AVG antivirus. I installed XP Pro SP2 on both. When I try to install the updates I get these errors:

  Windows Update:

  0x8024400a

  Microsoft Update:

  0 x 80240036

  and this message:

  «The site has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to post...» »

  I have disabled everything I can disable AVG and I still get these errors. I can't understand what is blocking updates. Any advice would be appreciated!

  Is the Internet/network-connectivity based Virtual Machine?  If yes then it is not a question of VMware, it's a Windows XP update problem and you need to do as you would on a physical machine to fix this.  I download Windows XP SP3 for professionals (this is not downloaded through Windows updates) and install it and then see if Windows Update started working.  Otherwise Google the error messages and follow what already exists on the Internet.

• Management update for the Virtual Machine update

  Dear people,

  I have an obligation to use the Update Manager to update java and adobe software windows VM insde. But I can find no basis for Virtual Machine updates or software updates. Reference predefined VM have only VMtools updates and VMHardware.

  Could someone help me please?

  Update: we have using maager update 5.

  --

  Thank you

  Hari.

  Manager Update are no longer updated software inside the virtual machine to be

  Maish

  VMTN moderator | vExpert

  Author of VMware vSphere Design

  @maishsk | My Blog

• All virtual machines on my ESX host off power at the same time

  Hi all

  Recently I attend the interview. a guy asked me this question

  < police = "Times New Roman, serif" >all virtual machines on my power off ESX at the same time host < / police >< / police >?

  What was the cause of the highest of the error, how to troubleshoot the error.please me.anybody guide to address this problem?

  Thanks

  Surya

  If all the virtual machines if lower at the same time, my bet would be VMware HA. Just for fun, build it inside your head:

  (1) 8 ESX nodes, all service consoles connected to a unique management switch.

  (2) now to create a cluster of these nodes, put all your virtual machines in there and activate HA, choose ' host isolation response: power off.

  (3) draw power from your management switch. HA on each host will deduct that the host is isolated-> turn off all the virtual machines.

  Each host will think the same thing, and hop find you with all virtual machines down to the time in the whole of the cluster. Have seen this one several times when people go and upgrade their management switches in the evening ("hey, it's only management").

  Visit my blog at http://www.vmdamentals.com

• How can I know what the user creates a virtual machine?

  vCenter 2.5 update 4.

  All users of this connection are users active directory.

  How can I find who created a virtual machine from scratch / deployed a VM from a template.

  I.E. I'm visualize something like a right click on the virtual computer, then select properties and it shows you the creator / owner. A bit like the advanced windows file security tab, you can watch the owner.

  It is not a good like that.

  But the newspaper of VC, you can trace who create/deploy a virtual computer.

  André

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• Find virtual machines in a range of IP addresses and name, IP and output Cluster

  Hello

  I am trying to create a script for the release of all the virtual machines that fall within a range of IP addresses and exit the VM name, IP address and the Virtual Cluster of machine is hosted in. I've got so far as to the release of the name of VM and IP, but can't seem to get the cluster to work. I can't find an expression for an attribute of Cluster in Get-View. Does anyone know how to complete it? Or maybe another way to go about this?

  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine-filter @{"Guest.IpAddress"="10.10.10 *"} | Select Name,@{N="IP; E = {$_.guest.} Ip_address}}

  OUTPUT:

  Name                                                                                                 IP

  ----                                                                                                      --

  SERVER1                                                                                          10.10.10.1

  Thank you!

  Tony

  That foot kicks back an error for each virtual computer running trying to interview (below). I don't know, but you are able to use - property and - Id in the same line - filter?

  Get-view: all parameters can be resolved by using the specified named parameters.

  Online: 15 char: 13

  + View-EEG-Id $esx. VM-Name, property filter Guest.IPAddress @{'guest...

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

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidArgument: (:)) [Get-view], ParameterBindingException)

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: AmbiguousParameterSet, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.DotNetInterop.GetVIView

  Change what you have there to remove the - filter and add back to the place where the declaration did the trick. Runs without error, but still takes a minute or two to complete. But that's fine.

  foreach ($cluster in (Get-View - ViewType ClusterComputeResource-property name, host)) {}

  foreach ($esx in (Get-View-Id $cluster. Home - VM property)) {}

  if($ESX.) VM) {}

  Notice-EEG-Id $esx. VM-Name property, Guest.IPAddress | where {$_.guest.} {IpAddress-like ' 10.10.10 * "} |

  Select Name,@{N='Cluster'; E = {$cluster. Name}},@{N='IP'; E = {$_.guest.} Ip_address}}

  }

  }

  }

  If I wanted to filter by name of Vlan or VlanID would I be able to replace the Guest.IpAddress property for a related property of VLAN?

  Thank you very much for the help!