Find the path to the virtual machine so disconnected in the inventory?

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• Get the path of a virtual machine

  Hello

  Need help, retrieve the full path of a virtual machine. I tried examples but could not operate.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  The code I need to add the path is attached.

  Thank you

  Try it with the attached script.

• How can I correct the path to a virtual machine?

  I changed the name of the partition where I keep my VM.  It's on an external drive.  Fusion cannot now find the virtual machine.  He shows me the old path in the VM library and says no dice.  I clicked on file & gt; Open, found the virtual machine (right where it has always been and what it has always been, in the same but renamed, appoints partition) and Fusion asks if I have copied or moved.  I have neither.  I changed the volume name.  What choose?  Help!

  Thank you!

  Select: "I moved it.

• Find my host PID of virtual machines VMware Server 2.0

  Hello!

  With VMware Server 1.x, it was easy for me to find which machine used what PID. I just had to connect to the web interface of VMware Server and voila I could see my names of virtual machines and their respective PIDs.

  Now with VMware Server 2 I can't find anywhere them in the web console of VMware!

  Instead I use Process Explorer (and market - I find that PID is related to computer)...

  Anyone has any idea where I can get this info quickly in VMware software/console/whatever?

  Thanx.

  Sorry, I was showing you the contents first to design you what you actually wanted.

  Try the attached vbs script that isolates the configuration file .vmx and PID for you.

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  If you have found this device or any other answer useful please consider the use of buttons useful or Correct to award points.

• How to find so far how many virtual machines created. ?

  Hi all
  is there anyway in vfoglight, find so far how many virtual computers created.

  very much appreciate your help.

  Thank you
  amreddy

  You can create a drag and drop dashboard/report for this information table.

  Details:

  Create dashboard (right Menu)

  VMware, Virtual Center + name of the virtual centre (right Menu - data tab)

  Drag "virtualMachinesCount" on the dashboard

  Select a chart

  Set the time range you want. (Top right of the screen)

  FYI: County of VM is also avialable from a datacenter and cluster level.

• Can't find the inventory after fresh install of VIO 2.5?

  I installed successfully VIO 2.5 on a vCenter lab w / NSX 6.2.3 and waited two weeks to complete the deployment, and now vCenter cannot connect to the management server in VIO. The vApp and VMs (Manager and model) are running, and I can't SSH in Manager and can PING vCenter to SSH, but I can't ping of vCenter. It showed upward in vCenter and the VIO plug in seems to work, but he can't find the administration server, event though I can still select it from taking in. The only thing I see so far is that when I SSH in and try to use the viocli, I get an error message: cannot find the file inventory. OpenStack may not have yet been deployed. Since I have just installed the Server Manager only and stopped, I thought I would try to uninstall VIO and start over, but this procedure does not seem to be documented that I can come up with a plan b. thoughts? Thank you, dude64

  I solve this problem I found that some of the clock of the ESXi host were not synchronized because they could not reach NTP. Once the clocks were synchronized, the problem disappeared. I attribute this to vCenter based SSO that everything in my laboratory is related to, but error messages and logs were not indicative of the root cause.

• Recover a virtual machine or the host 'path '.

  I need to know full "path" to a virtual machine or host, as it appears in the display of 'Virtual Machines' and the models in the vSphere client.  Right now, my c# code uses recursion to browse and build each path individually.  For a large environment (500 + VMs) this process takes an extremely long time.  I know that recursion is the problem but I'm curious if anyone has found a way more effective way fundraising a virtual machine or host?  Thank you and I have provided a sample below to show what I want back.

  "Atlanta, development, Mike, MyVM01.

  • "Atlanta" is the data center

  • 'Development' is a folder under the data center 'Atlanta '.

  • 'Mike' is a folder under the folder 'development '.

  • "MyVM01" is the real display of virtual machine name.

  Take a look at this script: listVMByFolder.pl you can easily modify the script to change the way she came out of what you like.

  =========================================================================

  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009

  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

  repository scripts vGhetto

  VMware Code Central - Scripts/code samples for developers and administrators

  150 VMware developer

  Twitter: @lamw

  If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".

• Virtual machine in the store of stock data... do not know why?

  Weird, seemingly simple question that I'm hoping someone can help me with. I'm migrating to warehouses of new data here that I will retire from our old data warehouses. I went in my opinion warehousing data and Clusters data store and selected data store. I went to the tab computers virtual and put highlight the entire virtual machine, chose to migrate and chose to migrate to the data store. When he finished two VM have been left. I looked at the settings and both were still in the inventory of data store, because they had the ISO mounted on their CD player that was on this data store. I put the drive of the client machine under devices and click OK. This removed a VM, but not the last one. I went to every setting that I can find to see why this virtual machine is always on the data store. I want to remove the data store, so I can finally get rid of it. If I browse the data store, the folder for this virtual machine is no longer there. If I'm going to change the settings for the virtual path of the VMDK computer is set to the new data store. For the life of me I can't figure out where the connection is for this virtual computer in this data store. We have our NetApp SAN and I checked that I have remove the task backup and all backups so these objects via the plugin vCenter we have and they are no longer on this data store either. Besides the VMDK and the CD drive, if not, how can a VM be bound to a data store?

  This last VM has a preview on this subject?

• Mount an .iso that is stored IN the virtual machine.

  Briefing Note: deploy us thin client on several campuses. Create us the model, deploy in each site, and then rebuild each pool. We now need to mount an image file .iso for one of the required programs. The .iso image file cannot be mounted with the software of in the virtual environment, because it uses a software of PortectDISC. We have the right number of drives, but customers have no disk drives.

  Problem: Since deploying the model, we must include the file .iso with her image. Normally, you would ride a .iso manually. However, load the file on each remote server .iso image and enter in each of hundreds of machines virtual one at a time to set the .iso way are not possible. Mount the .iso image file is our only option. Is there a way to store the .iso image file in the hard disk of the virtual machine and the virtual machine settings to rise from this point .iso? Or is it possible to include the image .iso with the model file when we deploy it is with each virtual machine and the path in the settings is already pointing to it?

  We tried to put the file .iso image on a store of data on one of our ESX servers, and then modified the model gold on this machine to point to the .iso image file. We reconstructed the pool, and the image .iso file mounted correctly. The problem with that is that we have 20 + machines trying to access the same file at the same time. Let the first few machines work, but the rest said it had disc read errors. So, we want to each machine to have its own .iso.

  Any help is greatly appreciated.

  Hello

  I have to add a warning that I use not models, but I don't think it is very relevant to my answer.

  @wila: well, I had thought about it, but when deploy us the image, it will automatically change the path to the file? For example, if we note the virtual drive to mount the .iso file to "\vm_template\cd.iso", then deploy, each of the virtual machines will not have this same path in their settings? Then they will all point to '\vm_template\cd.iso' instead of their own institution ' "\vm_##\cd.iso? '" If so, this would require we go each of hundreds of machines and set up manually every time that we deploy a model.

  If you do not add a path, then the iso that the virtual machine will try to open will be local to the virtual machine. You can simply do this by copying the vm to the path of your virtual machine, for example "[storage1] \vm_template" and affecting the CD this specific path.

  As is the same way, you can wait for the vSphere client is smart enough, it does not remove the path for drives in such a case, but not for CD...

  To use the vSphere Client to create the bases so far

  What I just did, go in the vmx file, deleted information path of superfluous and only left the name of the iso file, and all the true startConnected, not the virtual machine to make sure that my edit is OK, again registered the VM in the vSphere client, then started my VM and mounted the cdrom without any problem whatsoever.

  So - as expected - it works fine the iso file is local to the virtual machine and the local path comes first unless you assign specifically it different in the vmx file.

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  Wil
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  Twitter: @wilva

• From virtual machine automatically at startup of the host

  Hello

  I'm trying to find how to start a virtual machine automatically at startup of the ESXi host.  I think I did in ESX 3.5, but have so far been unable to find a similar feature in ESXi.

  Is this possible in ESXi?

  Thank you!

  I do not use ESXi, but if you go to the Configuration of your ESXi host and then virtual Mahcine start/stop tab is a box of properties in the right corner?  If so, like ESX, this is where to put it

• Script to add the virtual computer to the inventory of different data warehouses

  I need a script that will go through all available databases and add the virtual machine inside of them in inventory.

  
  

  I know how to do this with:

  New-VM - VMFilePath ' [DATASTORE] vmfolder/vmname.vmx "-VMHost (Get-Cluster"NOMCLUSTER"|) Get-VMHost | Get - Random) - place (Get-folder folder_name) - RunAsync

  But we have hundreds of data stores and thousands of virtual machines. I suck at writing scripts in a loop, but it looks like that's what I need. I tried using wildcards for the VMFilePath - but it does not work. Must be another way.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Oh, I fixed it. I had a host that was plundered with partial connectivity to storage. The script was repeatedly tries to connect to this host jacked up.

  I managed to work around the problem by changing "Get-VMHost | Select - first 1 "to" Get-VMHost | Get-Random.

  Works fine now... as do all things Luke and Lam

• Auto-editions of production on virtual machines based on events

  Hello

  Is it possible to receive a VMS mail each time an event like high signature is detected, if we can automate this process, I am unable to find any these settings in virtual machines, can you please help me out of this.

  Thanks and greetings

  Salim

  This is a script that will work a bit on VMS and 4.1 sensors

  #! / usr/bin/perl

  Use Time::Local;

  #***********************************************************************

  #

  # FILE NAME: emailalert.pl

  #

  # DESCRIPTION: This file is a perl script that will be run as a

  action # when an event ID - MC rule fires and will send you a

  # e-mail to $EmailRcpt with additional parameters of the alerts (similar to)

  (# the features available with notifications of CSPM)

  #

  # NOTE: this script only works with 4.x sensors. It will be

  # does not work with the 3.x sensors.

  #

  # NOTE: This script takes the keyword ${Query} of the

  # triggered rule, extracts of all alarms that caused

  # the rule to trigger. It then reads the last alarm of

  # analysis of this set, the individual fields of alarm, and

  # calls the script inherited with the same set of command

  line arguments # as CSPM.

  #

  # The sequence of calling this script must be of the form:

  #

  # emailalert.pl "${Query}.

  #

  # Where:

  #

  # "${Query}"-this is the keyword query dynamically

  # output by the rule when it fires.

  # It MUST be wrapped in double quotes

  # When showing you in the Arguments

  # box on the rule Actions Panel.

  #

  #

  #***********************************************************************

  ##

  # The following is only two variables that must change. $TempIDSFile can be

  # filename (doesn't have to exist), make sure the directory you specify

  # exists. Make sure you use the backslashes 2 for each directory, the first backslash is

  # If the Perl interpreter is not error on the path.

  ##

  # $EmailRcpt is the person who will receive notifications by e-mail. Also

  # Make sure escape you the symbol by putting a backslash in front of him, if not @.

  # you will get a Perl syntax error.

  ##

  $TempIDSFile = "c:\\temp\\idsalert.txt";

  $EmailRcpt = "gfullage\@cisco.com";

  subroutine # add 0 in front in any variable of date that is less than 10.

  void add_zero {}

  my ($var) = @_;

  If ($var< 10)="">

  $var = '0 '. $var

  }

  return $var;

  }

  subroutine # to find one or more IP addresses within the XML tag (we can have several

  # victims or aggressors in an alert now).

  void find_addresses {}

  my ($var) = @_;

  my @addresses = ();

  If (m / $var /) {}

  $raw = $&;

  While ($raw = ~ m /(\d{1,3}\.)) {3} \d {1,3} /) {}

  push @addresses, $&;

  $raw = $';

  }

  $var = join (",", @addresses);

  return $var;

  }

  }

  # out command line arg

  $whereClause = $ARGV [0];

  # extract all the alarms corresponding search expression

  $tmpFile = "alarms.out";

  # Extract the XML from the database alert/event.

  System ("IdsAlarms-if" $whereClause\ "-f\" $tmpFile\ "");

  # Open corresponding output alarm

  If (! open (ALARM_FILE, $tmpFile)) {}

  Print "Could not open $tmpFile\n";

  Output - 1;

  }

  # read the last line

  While () {}

  chomp $_;

  push @logfile, $_;

  }

  # clean up

  Close (ALARM_FILE);

  unlink ($tmpFile);

  # Open the temp file to write data alerts

  Open(out,">$TempIDSFile");

  # split the XML output in

  $oneline = join('',@logfile);

  $oneline = ~ s /-<\ vents\="">/ / g;

  $oneline = ~ s /-<\ valert\="">/-<\ valert\="">, / g;

  @items = split(/,/,$oneline);

  # If you want to see the result of database query in the e-mail, a comment on the

  # line below (useful for troubleshooting):

  # (print "$oneline\n");

  # Loop until there are no more alerts

  {foreach (@items)

  if (m/\(.*)\<\ ostid\="">/) {

  $hostid = $1;

  }

  If (m/severity = "(.*?)") » /) {

  $sev = $1;

  }

  If (m/Zone\=".*"\ >(.*)-<\ ime\="">/) {}

  $t = $1;

  {If ($t = ~ m/(.*)(\d{9})/ {)}

  ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime($1);

  # Year is reported from 1900 (eg. 2003 is 103).

  $year = $year + 1900;

  # Months begin at 0 (January = 0, February = 1, etc.), add 1.

  $mon = $mon + 1;

  $mon = add_zero ($mon);

  $mday = add_zero ($mday);

  $hour = add_zero ($hour);

  $min = add_zero ($min);

  $sec = add_zero ($sec);

  }

  }

  If (m/sigName = "(.*?)") » /) {

  $SigName = $1;

  }

  If (m/iRIMS = "(.*?)") » /) {

  $SigID = $1;

  }

  If (m/subSigId = "(.*?)") » /) {

  $SubSig = $1;

  }

  $attackerstring = "\".

  If ($attackerstring = find_addresses ($attackerstring)) {}

  }

  $victimstring = "\".

  If ($victimstring = find_addresses ($victimstring)) {}

  }

  @actions = ();

  if (m/\(.*)\<\ ctions\="">/) {

  $rawaction = $1;

  While ($rawaction = ~ m /-<(\w*?)\>(. *?)------)

  $rawaction = $';

  If {($2 eq "true")

  push @actions, $1;

  }

  }

  If {(@actions)

  $actiontaken = join (",", @actions);

  }

  else {}

  $actiontaken = 'none ';

  }

  }

  # Now write your notification e-mail. You write the following in

  # the temporary file at the moment, but it will then be sent.

  ##

  # Even once, be sure to escape the special characters with a backslash (note the: between)

  (# the hamid and the SubSig).

  print (OUT "\n$hostid reported an alert of severity $sev to $mon / $mday / $year $hour: $min: $sec\n");

  ("print ("Signature $SigName \($SigID\:$SubSig\) from $attackerstring to $victimstring\n ");

  print (THE "measures taken: $actiontaken \n\n" "");

  print(OUT "----------------------------------------------------\n");

  }

  Close (out);

  # Gives the word "blat" to send the file content in the body of an e-mail message.

  # Blat is a freeware for Windows NT/95 e-mail program, it comes with the virtual machines in the

  # $BASE\CSCOpx\bin directory, make sure that you install first by running:

  ##

  # blat - install

  ##

  # For more information on blat, simply type "blat" to the prompt on your system (make VMS

  # It's in your path (feel free to move the executable to c:\winnt\system32 FRONT)

  (# run you the facility, which will ensure that your system can still find).

  System ("blat \"$TempIDSFile\"t - \"$EmailRcpt\ "s - \"Received ID alert\"');

• List of virtual machines with Mac static

  I was trying to find a way to list virtual machines with static Mac with their mac assigned.  Exploring the virtualmachine view I have found the where it is said to be static, but have not been able to find a way to filter, it.  Is it possible to do this with powercli?

  Hello

  I think it's just what you are looking for http://boerlowie.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/get-all-vms-with-fixed-mac-addresses-using-powercli/

  Kind regards

  Yasen

• Required physical server Vs Virtual Machine memory

  Is there a white paper explains why we we need less memory in the Virtual Machine as compared to the physical Machine.

  The problem is that my boss wants to know why this is so. It is very difficult for me to explain this to him, he wants to see a white paper OR some article on the internet.

  As long as a VM administrator, I know that we can add and remove a virtual computer memory but it will be not that simple when it comes to physical servers. I suggested to him that we must follow a standard, and if there is a requirement for business we can increase or decrease is according to the needs. So when the salesman comes in they give us specifications for the physical server and not the virtual and there is always an argument that why should have 6-8 GB memory VM from the outset. In order to avoid everything that the arguments it needs more proof.

  Thank you

  Here is a simple explanation of why VM need less memory.  Transparent page sharing.

  If you install a virtual of Windows 2008 SP2 single server machine, lets assume that it uses 500 MB of RAM while sitting idle.  It's basically all running components loaded into memory.

  If you then put a same VM, the new machine virtual don't re-charge not the exact same components in memory.  ESX will see the same exact memory block has been loaded into the memory of the host Server1 (phyiscal material) and then simply point the virtual machine to the component already loaded into memory.

  After the virtual machine has been loaded and GST has kicked, you will probably find that for 2 identical virtual machines you use not only 650MB of memory (not 1000 as expected).  This is because 80% of the components has need of the new virtual machine, it only uses the existing memory blocks, instead of duplicating.

  Now, repeat this operation on 10 VM and assume only 50% of the memory is the same between them... it is still a huge economy of memory.  In this case, since each VM Windows is really loading only 250 MB of itself in memory and split the rest, technically you don't need to allocate 2 GB of RAM for each virtual computer... you can easily get away with putting 1 to 1.5 GB on this server and I have always the same ratio of available memory for the programs that you would do if it was a physical server.

• Printer for several virtual machines?

  I have some difficulty right now to find how to print from virtual machines. I have a printer connected to the computer and it can connect to a virtual machine to print, but it can be connected to 1 VM at a time. Is it possible to make sure that all 4 virtual machines can have the ability to print at the same time?

  Navigation on NAT tends not to work.  So yes, try jumpered.  Your operating system should be on the same workgroup or domain.  (Not absolutely necessary, but more difficult if they are not the same).