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• API to create a Virtual Machine without using a model

  I see the GUI documentation how to create a virtual machine without a model, but I can't find the actions of the API how to build the virtual machine based on custom settings (CPU, memory, OS, etc.), there are a only of the shares how instantiate OVF or vAppTemplate. Could you please tell is possible to generate/create the VM without model or OVF by API?

  I see. Thanks for the background.

  Based on my notes there is no such API. Other applications were similar to this one and the solution suggested in this case is to programmatically create an OVF (describing the configuration of the VM to instantiate) and import it into the vDC. The end result is the same (i.e. an empty VM configured by entries) the difference is how it gets instantiate (created from zero Vs described in the OVF and imported).

• HOWTO delete a VMDK to a virtual machine without actually deleting the vmdk disk file?

  How to remove a file VMDK to a virtual machine without actually deleting the vmdk disk file?

  Details:

  My perl script, I need to temporarily remove a vmdk to a virtual machine file. However I do not want the vmdk file should be removed from the virtual machine. For example, the gui vsphere provides this option to delete a virtual disk without deleting the virtual disk from the disk files.

  In my script, I use the ReconfigVM_Task to do this. This does the job, but also removes the vmdk file. How can ensure me that the vmdk file will not delete the disk?

  The code snippet is something are:

  My $devspec = VirtualDeviceConfigSpec-> new)

  device = > $device,

  #device to delete above:

  operation = > VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation-> new ('remove'));

  Push (@$ devspec_list, $devspec);

  My $config_spec = VirtualMachineConfigSpec-> new)

  deviceChange = > $devspec_list

  );

  my $task = $template_view-> ReconfigVM_Task (spec = > $config_spec);

  would really appreciate your help

  s

  Take a look at this script: vmdkManagement.pl

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• How to start a virtual machine without vmx file

  Hello, I have a virtual machine that I want to start up using 10.0.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 32-bit workstation but I don't have multiple vmdk files and a file on me vmxf and apparently, that's all that is in the software. How do I run something like that?

  Hello
  You cannot start a virtual machine without a vmx file.
  If you do not have a vmx file - fly a.
  For example this one:
  -----------------------------------

  . Encoding = "windows-1252".

  config.version = '8 '.

  virtualHW.version = '8 '.

  scsi0. Present = 'TRUE '.

  scsi0.virtualDev = "free".

  memsize = "2048".

  scsi0:0. Present = 'false '.

  scsi0:0. FileName = "set-path-to-bootdisk-and-then-set-.present-to-true-to-activate".

  ethernet0. Present = 'TRUE '.

  ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000".

  displayName = "minimal-vm.

  guestOS = "windows7-64.

  virtualHW.productCompatibility = "hosted".

  ------------------------------------

  That cuts into a file and store it as a *.vmx.
  Then launch the new VM with
  VMware /path-to-vmx/name.vmx or
  vmplayer /path-to-vmx/name.vmx
  Other users may also recommend to simply launch the user interface and follow the file > New menu...
  and then order the new virtual machine to the card by selecting your existing virtual disks.

• virtual machines without port group

  You can manage the virtual machine without having to configure the virtual machine port group?

  The virtual machine port group, it's how the virtual machine connects to a network then Yes, that it is necessary if you want to have your VM to communicate on your network computers tother / with who in minde not you won't be able to manage the virtual machine through the VLAN withour groups of ports VM

• Can I change the RAM available on a virtual machine without having to reboot?

  I would like to know if there is an option to change the RAM available on a virtual machine without restarting the virtual machine. I saw this old news item that says that it is

  possible (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10044031-92.html), but I don't know how to do it. Any suggestions?

  Thanks in advance.

  Arne post, called PowerCLI: toggle the function add Hot VMs, shows how.

• 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!

• find virtual machines connected to several groups of ports

  I am able to find a list of the virtual machines connected to a specific port quite easily.

  Get - VM | where {(Get-NetworkAdapter-VM $_ |)} (Select-expandProperty NetworkName) -eq "Network A"}

  I'd like to find computers virtual that are connected to multiple networks, except that I don't want not selected.

  I want a list of virtual computers that connect to the network but not connected to "Network A" and "Network B".

  The inverse of the one-liner above returns the same VM

  Get - VM | where {(Get-NetworkAdapter-VM $_ |)} (Select-expandProperty NetworkName) -don't "Network B"}

  
  

  Thank you
  

  Something like that maybe

  Get - VM | where {$nets = @(Get-NetworkAdapter-VM $_ | % {$_.NetworkName}); $nets. {Count - eq 1 - and $nets - contains "Network A"}

• 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 configure NTP between Virtual Machines without using Vsphere Client

  I have a group of 8 virtual servers of 5.5 ESXi without an Internet connection. There are virtual machines on each of these 8 virtual servers.

  I did one of these 5.5 virtual ESXi host a NTP server by editing the file /etc/ntp.conf with below configuration and

  started the ntpd daemon. He began to take the time to its local clock, here's the output of ntpq Pei

  IP server 10.108.190.14

  ip address of the client 10.108.190.15

  Server /etc/ntp.conf

  > > driftfile/var/lib/ntp/drift

  > > server 127.127.1.0 maxpoll 4

  > > fondant 127.127.1.0 stratum 10

  | ntpq Pei

  |   refid distance st t when poll reach delay offset jitter

  | ==============================================================
  | * LOCAL (0). LIUX. 10 l 2 64 377 0.000 0.000 0.001

  Then I edited the file /etc/ntp.conf on customers with below configuration but the customer would not synchronize with the server. He

  wouldn t get response from the server. Here is the output of ntpq Pei

  Customer /etc/ntp.conf

  > > driftfile/var/lib/ntp/drift

  > > server 10.108.190.14 iburst

  | ntpq Pei

  |      refid distance st t when poll reach delay offset jitter

  | ==================================================================
  | 10.108.190.14 INIT. 16 u

  Now, when I configure NPT Client/Server on virtual machines through the Configuration Option under Option Configuration time

  in Vsphere Client everything works fine and the client and the server to synchronize with each other. I checked the file /etc/ntp.conf on both the client

  and the server and it has a couple of restrict 127.0.0.1 and restrict the lines added by default kod nomodify etc.

  So why NPT Server featured when enabled via Vsphere Client works very well, but it does not work when it is configured manually

  in the virtual servers directly.

  I was connected to a vCenter Server Appliance through the VSphere Client and enabled the synchronization of time of the NPT.

  I really need to know how to configure the NTP server without using the Vsphere Client so that I can automate the

  task by writing a python script that would connect to each virtual server and NTP Client/Server configuration.

  Any help in this issue deeply appreciated!

  Thank you!

  You can configure the ntp server without using viclient.

  Take a look @ http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/documentLinkInt.do?micrositeID=&popup=true&languageId=&externalID=1003063

  Hope this helps

  -Assane

• Locate a virtual machine without vCenter?

  We run ESXi 4.1 with vCenter 4.1.  Our vCenter server as its backend SQL are located on the virtual machines.  Recently, our SQL Server went down vCenter rendered useless.  I rose all return successfully logging into the host of the SQL Server virtual computer with my client vSphere and restart it.  However, without vCenter, I was connecting each host and verification of inventory search of the virtual machine.  Fortunately, we do not have many guests, but y at - it a script or tool I can ues to know about what a particular VM host lies when vCenter isn't available?

  Thank you-

  Al Gaspar

  If you are looking for a particular virtual machine, you can use a script like PowerCLI below

  $hostlist = "esxihost1", "esxihost2", "esihost3".

  $hostlist = Read-Host "enter the name of the virtual machine:

  $hostlist | %{

  $dummy = connect-VIServer-Server $_-username-password

  If (Get-VM-name $vmName - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {}

  Write-Host "VM" $vmName "found on" $defaultViServer - ForegroundColor Green

  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  breaking

  }

  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  }

• How can I migrate a virtual machine without vcentre?

  Afternoon,

  I need to migrate our vcentre server to another host which is located in another cluster, in order to configure CVS.

  IM struggling to find the cli commands through PuTTY.

  Can someone point me in the right direction please?

  Thank you

  If you need storage move ot, you can use something like FastSCP - details here:

  http://www.get-virtual.info/2011/01/20/essential-tools-FastSCP/

  FastSCP do you want to allow to exclude the VMDK and other files from one host to another (if you have no storage of netwroked)

  You need the new ESX host is now click the properties of host and find the data store that you have copied thte VM at.

  Choose 'Browse the data store' and search the .vmx file that you moved with the files of the virtual machine.

  Right-click on the *.vmx file and select "Import" - follow the instructions of the wizard.

  Good luck :-)

• move a virtual machine without taking down

  I know it can be done with vSphere/vCenter, but only two standalone ESXi 4.1 servers, is it possible to move a VM from one to the other while the virtual machine is always on?

  OR is there a way to move a virtual machine from a data store to another on the SAME ESX host without taking it down?

  Of course I can ovf them and re - deploy anywhere, but which requires to take the virtual machine down?

  you could use VMware Converter and convert a "machine engine.  In this way, you can leave the source running while you convert to the new destination.

• Find virtual machines with downtime more then a week

  Hello community,

  I'm looking for a command to find the virtual machines where the week then a longer time to stop-ist.

  I need this information to:

  Get - VM | Select-Object - property 'Name', 'Description', 'NumCPU', 'MemoryMB.

  I hope someone has an answer.

  Best wishes

  Jorn

  I think that the following script should produce those VM names.

  He begins by taking only the currently PoweredOff VMs.

  Then she collects all the virtual machines that have been turned off last week.

  And finally, it combines the 2 lists to find these virtual machines that have been turned off more than a week ago.

  I would like to know if it works for you.

  $vms = (Get-VM | where {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOff"}) | %{$_.Name}
  $events = Get-VIEvent -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-7) | where{$_.FullFormattedMessage -like "Task: Power off*"}
  $lastweekVM = $events | %{$_.Vm.Name}
  $longer1week = $vms | where {!($lastweekVM -contains $_)}
  $longer1week
  

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• Tool to find virtual machines with connected CD-ROM or a SQL query?

  What is a good way to find all the virtual machines that have the cd player or datastore ISO file attached host?

  RV tools will also work.  http://www.robware.NET