Get the path of a virtual machine

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• Software required to get the value of unused virtual machines

  Almost 300 more virtual machines are running in my organization. Now, I need to identify the virtual machines that are not in use last period of one month so that I can approach the resources of concern against their virtual machines and get confirmation to remove these unused host machine virtual machines.

  Help kindly pointed out what software can provide information required for the performance of house-keeping of the Virtual Infrastructure.

  You could try vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPs).  Who has the ability to produce various reports including the integrated 'Idle Virtual Machines' that looks at the VM CPU: % idle time, disk i/o i/o idle time and % idle time network.

  I guess it would be possible to do something with PowerCLi (Google can be your best friend with this well).

  Danny

• 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.

• How to get the name of my virtual machine to a named resource pool

  Based on the script ghettoVCBg2 on the platform VIMA, I realized a backup solution for my ESXi (free) servers (also an automatic mailing is integrated ). My next goal is to integrate an automatic selection of my computer virtual based on the name of the list of resources. To understand, I have mainly two categories '1_Productive' and '2_Test', from resource pools. In both categories, there is a resource pool 'SRV' and 'CLT '.

  for example: 1_Productive-SRV-VM

  ------CLT-VM

  At the time of the backup, I have to manually enter the name of the virtual machine in a file. My question is how to integrate an automatic selection for example my pool of resources "SRV." My first idea was to shoot the 'vidiscover.pl' tool and run it for each server separately. Subsequently I merge files into a single file for ghettoVCBg2. You should know I want only to mit backup s excluded '1_Productive\SRV' VM '2_TEST\SRV '. But the name in double "SRV" can be replaced. A really great solution could be a direct integration in ghettoVCBg2

  Could someone help because I'am not very firm with perl programming...

  Thank you very much.

  Take a look at this review of the script: listVMsInResourcePool.pl

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

  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".

• How to configure the CD driver on the host for a virtual machine?

  After you create a virture machine and put the CD of driver on host, when powered on the vertual machine, may not start the drive form the CD only from NIC.

  How to configure the CD driver on the host for a virtual machine?

  Right-click on the virtual computer and go to edit settings. Click the Options tab and under the tip list, there should be Boot Options. Enter an amount of milliseconds to wait before your boot, so you can activate the CD-ROM. You can also activate the CD even if it boots to the NETWORK card option, and then reset the virtual machine. Get the focus of this virtual machine on the console session, and then press ctrl-alt-insert. Your CD-ROM will stay connected if you do not want to delay the startup process.

• How do you get the path of the data store or the URL of a virtual disk in vRealize Orchestrator?

  I need to eager zero a virtual disk while building a virtual machine. I found the eagerZeroVirtualDisk_Task() under VcVirtualDiskManager function, which takes in 2 parameters:

  name - (String) the name of the disk, is a path to the data store or a URL pointing to the virtual disk that needs to be inflated.

  Data Center - (VcDatacenter) if the name is a path of data store, the data center for the path of the data store. Not necessary when called directly on ESX. If not specified on a call to VirtualCenter, the name must be a URL.

  How can I get the correct path of data store given the virtual disk? I intend to iterate through the features of the virtual machine to get the disks.

  Thank you!

  Actually figured out how to get the path of the data store, and how a drive zeros. In case it is useful to share the code here:

  var vimHost = vm.vimHost; VM instanceof VCVirtualMachine

  var vDiskMgr = vimHost.virtualDiskManager;

  for each disk

  var features = vm.config.hardware.device;

  for each {(dev var in devices)

  dev.backing contains a lot of useful things...

  If (dev instanceof VcVirtualDisk) {}

  a disc!

  var dsPath = dev.backing.fileName;

  System.log ("path of disk:" + dsPath);

  Data var Center =

  System.getModule('com.vmware.library.vc.datastore').getDatacenterForDatastore (dev.backing.datastore);

  var vcTask = vDiskMgr.eagerZeroVirtualDisk_Task (dsPath, datacenter);

  wait

  var waitResult =

  System.getModule('com.vmware.library.vc.basic').vim3WaitTaskEnd (vcTask, true, 5);

  }

  }

• 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)

• Get the name of the host that a virtual machine is running, rather than the host ID

  Hello

  Looking for a little help, I question the result of a get - vm of the. Run to find the name of the host to a virtual machine runs on. All I seem to get is the host id that is a number.

  Y at - it an option in the GET - vm, which displays the name of the host, or is it possible to remove the name of the host from the value of the provided host id.

  What I want to do is the following:

  Enter a name for the virtual machine, hop on the host his race, ask the host for its groups of ports available, introduce an option of these groups of ports and when you enter the name, set the Group of ports of entry. Without the actual host name I can't find it.

  $selectedVM = read-host "enter the name of the VM.

  $vm = get - vm $selectedVM | Get-opinion

  $runhost = $vm.runtime.host

  $portgroups = get-virtualportgroup - VMHost $runhost

  'Port available to connect groups '.

  $portgroups

  $selectedPG = read-host "enter the port group name.

  $netadapters = get-networkadapter - VM $selectedVM

  ForEach ($netadapter to $netadapters)

  {

  all-NIC - NIC NetworkName $netadapter - $selectedPG - StartConnected: $TRUE - confirm: $false

  }

  Any help on this would be really appreciated.

  Thank you

  Dan

  Hi Dan,.

  You can retrieve the host name by using the Get-VMHost cmdlet

  $selectedVM = read-host "Enter VM Name"
  $vmhost = Get-VMHost -VM (Get-VM -Name $selectedVM) | Select-Object Name
  $runhost = $vmhost.Name
  

  Hope this helps

• How to get the path of the vmdk to a VM stop file?

  Hi guys,.

  How to get the path of the vmdk to a VM stop file in ESX Server via the VIX API?

  I try to get it via the VixVM_ReadVariable() function. but it seems that this function requires that the virtual machine is power on.

  I don't want to go the virtual machine started, I just want to know if I can get the path of the vmdk file when a virtual machine is power off.

  Thanks in advance.

  Sorry, I don't have any samples.

  However, if you look at the layoutEx of the managed object VirtualMachine field, you will see that the VirtualMachineFileLayoutEx data object has a field "files" which should contain the paths of affected files.

  I hope that it should be able to help get started.

• Don't define the default directory for virtual machines

  Use VMware Player 3, how can I set the default directory for the VMS to be opened or created?

  Concerning

  Marius

  Open the preferences of the user (on Windows, % APPDATA%\VMware\preferences.ini).

  You want to add OR change the following line:

  -prefvmx.defaultVMPath =

  If this key is not in the file, add it and the full path that you want as the default value, the value on the right side

  -prefvmx.defaultVMPath = "C:\Thanksgiving\Ate\Too\Much".

  Now that the player can create virtual machines, it would be nice to have the user interface to specify the default directory for put/get those VMs

• How to get the path of the file attached to appliction

  Hello

  I use jdeveloper 11.1.1.3.0

  I have a folder named "Img" attached to my application, I need to get the path of this file running. I used code below to get:

  String relativeWebPath = "/ Img";

  FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance ();

  ServletContext servletContext = (ServletContext) facesContext.getExternalContext () .getContext ();

  String absoluteDiskPath = servletContext.getRealPath (relativeWebPath);

  When I run the application on integrated WebLogic, the true path returns:

  C:\Users\eslami\AppData\Roaming\JDeveloper\system11.1.1.3.37.56.60\o.j2ee\drs\testAddr\ViewControllerWebApp.war\Img

  but when I run the application on server Stanalone, returns null.

  How can I get this path on the server Stanalone?

  Habib

  Hello

  ServletContext.getRealPath () returns null if the servlet container cannot translate the virtual path to a real path for any reason any (for example, when content is made available a .war archive).

  To do this, add the following line in the weblogic.xml:

  true

• ESXi installation before vCenter Server?  How can I get vCenter Server on a virtual machine on ESXi servers?

  My plan for a new vSphere Essentials Plus 5.5 U2a installation is to have the vCenter Server on a virtual machine on the servers of the host on which is installed ESXi.  However, all the installation instructions I found indicate the user to first install the vCenter Server.  How can I get vCenter Server on a virtual machine on ESXi servers?

  Thank you for your help.

  Hi munkyman welcome to communities.

  After you have installed your first ESXi host, open a browser and go to https://your-ESXi-ip-or-FQDN

  You can download the vSphere Client here. It is a windows application that you can install on your desktop. It is often referred to as the "c# Client vSphere" in communities and blog posts, because it is a new implemented in the vCenter Server Web client.

  But for the beginning, install the vSphere Windows Client. You can then launch it and connect directly to your ESXi host. Here you can create your first virtual machine, which can be the VM vCenter (installation of Windows or device, that is you).

  You can use the web client or connect to the Server with the client c# vSphere vCenter VCenter runs.

  Tim

• Get a count of all virtual machines (with some filtering)

  I try to get a total number of virtual machines, excluding some vShield edge devices and virtual machines in a certain set of resources (System vDC). I'll start with this:

  use strict;

  use warnings;

  use VMware::VIRuntime;

  {PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME} $ENV = 0;

  OPTS::parse();

  OPTS::Validate();

  Util::Connect();

  Use Data::Dumper;

  # Get all items in the inventory of the specified type

  My $e_vm = Vim::find_entity_views (view_type = > 'VirtualMachine', properties = > ['summary.config.name']);

  my $count = 0;

  {foreach (@$e_vm)}

  My $vmName = $_-> {'summary.config.name'};

  If (!) () $vmName = ~ m/EdgeGW/i) & &! ($vmName = ~ m / ^ vse/i)) {

  $count ++;

  } else {}

  Print "Audit."... VMName: ".." $vmName. » \n » ;

  }

  }

  printf ("TotalVMs:%d \n",$Count);

  Util::Disconnect();

  It works well enough, but try to go to the next step, this is where I get into trouble. In theory, should be a string of resourceConfig.entity.name (if I read correctly the API documentation). I can't find a way to get this string for comparison within the foreach loop.

  Any ideas?

  The resourceConfig.entity is a ManagedObjectReference to get the name, you'll have to Vim: get_view() against this moref.

  But you can also do another way, for example by using begin_entity in your find_entity_views() call.

  use strict;

  use warnings;

  use VMware::VIRuntime;

  {PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME} $ENV = 0;

  My % opts =)

  pool-online {}

  type-online "s =",

  variable-online 'pool',

  necessary,-online 1

  },

  );

  OPTS::add_options (%OPTS);

  OPTS::parse();

  OPTS::Validate();

  Util::Connect();

  My $pool_name = Opts::get_option ("pool");

  My $pool_view = Vim::find_entity_view (view_type-online "ResourcePool",

  Properties-online ['name'],

  filter => {-online $pool_name 'name'});

  Die "Unable to locate the"$pool_name"resource pool in the vcenter inventory" to less than $pool_view;

  # Get all items in the inventory of the specified type

  My $e_vm = Vim::find_entity_views (view_type-online 'VirtualMachine',

  Properties-online ['name'],

  begin_entity-online $pool_view);

  my $count = 0;

  {foreach (@$e_vm)}

  My $vmName = $_-> {'name'};

  If (!) () $vmName = ~ m/EdgeGW/i) &! ($vmName = ~ m / ^ vse/i)) {

  $count ++;

  } else {}

  Print "Audit."... VMName: ".." $vmName. » \n » ;

  }

  }

  printf ("TotalVMs:%d \n",$Count);

  Util::Disconnect();

• Modify the script for multiple virtual machines

  I'm working on the powercli user to change the CPU and the memory of several virtual machines.

  I found the perfect scenario created: http://ict-freak.nl/2010/05/07/powercli-script-to-schedule-memory-and-or-vcpu-updowngrade/comment-page-1/#comment-20336

  But it's only for 1 VM.

  Can someone tell me to change so do several virtual machines.  A text file would be ideal, but I'm ready for anything as this point, nothing I try does not work.

  Thank you.

  You could do

  foreach ($vm in Get-VM-name (Get-Content:\Powercli_scripts\servers.txt))

  I don't know why it's poweroffs randomly.

  You can add the - WhatIf parameter on this line, like that it will only say what he does, without actually running the cmdlet.

• Need a script to disable the copy/paste in virtual machines

  Need a script to disable the copy/paste in virtual machines

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

  Begin {}

  $disableCopy = "isolation.tools.copy.enable".
  $disableCopy_value = "false".
  $disablePaste = "isolation.tools.paste.enable".
  $disablePaste_value = "false".
  $disableGUI = "isolation.tools.setGUIOptions.enable".
  $disableGUI_value = "false".
  }

  {In process
  #Make of course, it's a virtual machine
  If ($_ - isnot [VMware.VimAutomation.Client20.VirtualMachineImpl]) {co continue}

  #Setup our object
  $vm = get-view $_. ID
  $vmConfigSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig += new-Object VMware.Vim.optionvalue
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig += new-Object VMware.Vim.optionvalue
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig += new-Object VMware.Vim.optionvalue
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig [0]. Key = $disableCopy
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig [0]. Value = $disableCopy_value
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig [1]. Key = $disablePaste
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig [1]. Value = $disablePaste_value
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig [2]. Key = $disableGUI
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig [2]. Value = $disableGUI_value
  #Run change
  $vm. ReconfigVM ($vmConfigSpec)
  }

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

  The script above did not work. This script must run on VMs specified in a cluster that is mentioned.

  As long as vmhgfs is not installed in your virtual machines during the installation of the tools in 5.0, copy and paste between virtual machines is not enabled by default