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• Did update ESXi 4.1 host via PowerCLI see option3

  Hello

  I have a test environment before going to Production Server two ESXi410 installed (1 ESXi and ESXi-2)

  Option1: ESXi-1, I've got vCenter and Update Manager. According to the documentation, I tried to use update manager add-in for vcenter. That went well to update host ESXi-2 with ESXi410 - 201011001.zip.

  No I haven't been in trouble for the installation of the update on the ESXi-1 which has the Update Manager. As I close the virtual machine and put the ESXi-1 in Maintenance mode.

  Option2: allowing the Support of Local and Remote Tech support (SSH) technology. In this way, I copied the file to update ESXi-1 data source using PuTTY. But esxupdate command does not find the file in the path (/ vmfs/volumes/datastore1/filename.zip). Then I copied to/var/tmp/cache and use the command esxupdate - bundle = filename.zip update. It also worked well.

  But the thing I've read in your documentation to use Install-VMHostPatch did not help me.

  Option 3: of vSphere PowerCLI. > Install-VMHostPatch - VMHost /var/tmp/cache/ESXi410-201011001.zip IP - HostPath-server IP - confirm

  gave me an error 5 No. OSError file or directory.

  Yet once, I tried to change the path to the data store:

  PowerCLI > Install-VMHostPatch - VMHost IP HostPath - /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi410-201011001.zip

  Please find attached the error in the image file.

  I want to use the PowerCLI update of the host and the VM. VMware has no documentation on this.

  Help, please.

  Mohammed Ali Rizwan

  Hello

  Install-VMHostPatch will work for you only if you want to update the ESX host, it will not help for virtual machines. It is the snap another powershell called VUM PowerCLI that you can download from here http://vmware.com/go/powercliupdate. If you want to use that snap-in you should have installed VUM server.

  Now on your current number. The answer that Luc wrote should work for you. In this example, there is a step that downloads patch files manually. The reason for this is the small size partitions on ESXi and usually there is no enough space to download large patch in the temporary folder of ESXi.

  In fact, you can benefit from this approach - if all your ESXi boxes are connected to the shared storage, you can download the patches on this storage once and then upgrade one by one.

  Kind regards

  Vitali

  Team PowerCLI

• 5.1 ESXi hosts via PowerCLI

  Hello

  I would like to write a script that turns off my lab together with elegance.  There are several windows machines and infra-red in the laboratory and a total of 4 virtual hosts through 2 vCenters.  Two my vCenters are virtual machines that reside on hosts, that I intend to stop.

  Currently I have a .bat file which stops all windows, including vCenter servers machines.  Virtual appliances are configured for the switch automatically with the host implementation, so as long as I am able to stop everyone welcome individually all should go down gracefully.  The hosts are called:

  154.DC.local

  164.DC.local

  189.DC.local

  199.DC.local

  Y at - it a simple script, I can write to achieve?   Can I run my file shutdown.bat script?

  Thank you

  Duncan.

  Of course, you mean something like this

  $names = "154.dc.local","164.dc.local","189.dc.local","199.dc.local" 
  
  connect-VIServer -Server $names -User root -Password Password1 | %{
    Get-VMHost -Server $_ | %{
           $_.ExtensionData.ShutdownHost_Task($TRUE)
    }
  }
  

• 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)

• The host system resources / booking via PowerCLI

  Hello chaps,

  Does anyone know if it is possible to adjust the CPU and the memory that is reserved for a host via PowerCLI?

  (Home > Configuration > Allocation of system resources > edit)

  I usually affect the reserve memory 800 MB and CPU 800 MHz according to the design best practices.

  Thank you

  
  Dan

  As far as I know, there's no cmdlet for this, but you can use the UpdateSystemResources method.

  You just need to know that the key to the Scriptures "host/system".

  $esx = Get-VMHost MyHost 
  
  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.HostSystemResourceInfo $spec.key = "host/system" $spec.Config = New-Object VMware.Vim.ResourceConfigSpec$spec.Config.cpuAllocation = New-Object VMware.Vim.ResourceAllocationInfo$spec.Config.cpuAllocation.reservation = 800$spec.Config.memoryAllocation = New-Object VMware.Vim.ResourceAllocationInfo$spec.Config.memoryAllocation.reservation = 800$spec.Config.ChangeVersion = $esx.ExtensionData.SystemResources.Config.ChangeVersion
  $esx.ExtensionData.UpdateSystemResources($spec)
  

• 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?

• ESXi/Esx host hardware information

  
  Hello

  is it possible to get host info like hardware below using powercli...

  IP, hostname,

  Material,

  The version of the BIOS,

  model,

  CPU Family,

  BIOSVersion,

  Version and model of CF card

  This is because your esxihost are connected to vcenter by name rather than IP addresses.

  This will do the trick.

  Get-VMHost | Select-object @{N="HostName";E={ $_ | Get-VMHostNetwork | select -ExpandProperty Hostname}},
          @{N="IPAddress"; E={($_ | Get-VMHostNetwork).VirtualNic | Where-Object {$_.ManagementTrafficEnabled} | Select-Object -ExpandProperty IP}},
          Manufacturer,
          Model,
          ProcessorType,
          @{N="BIOS version";E={$_.ExtensionData.Hardware.BiosInfo.BiosVersion}},
          @{N="HBA Model";E={($_ | get-vmhosthba -Type FibreChannel | select-object -ExpandProperty Model) -join ", "}},
          @{N="Driver";E={($_ | get-vmhosthba -Type FibreChannel | select-object -ExpandProperty Driver) -join ", "}}
  

  Post edited by: Kunal Udapi

• Disable the host followed via PowerCLI

  Hi all...

  
  I am looking for a way to disable the host followed via powercli.

  I found one-liner of LucD to get the current state: Get-Cluster | Select Name, @{N = 'Home monitoring status'; E={$_. Extensiondata.Configuration.DasConfig.HostMonitoring}}

  And I know how to turn on/off HA: Get-Cluster | Cluster - HAEnabled game: $false

  But I'm not sure how to combine the two.

  I want to be able to quickly toggle host control without having to disable HA altogether.

  Thoughts?

  Thank you!

  You can use a where clause

  Get-Cluster | where {$_.} Extensiondata.Configuration.DasConfig.HostMonitoring} | Cluster - HAEnabled game: $false

• 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

• 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!

• 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.

• 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

• Managind DRS groups via powercli

  Goodmorning.

  I need to get all the members of a group of virtual machine via PowerCli DRS.

  I found a few articles of aroud the cmdlets such as ' New -DrsVmGroup" or so on. "

  I don't see this cmdlets in my powercli.

  I connect to a Virtual Center 5.0 managing 6 hosts ESXi 4.1.

  Using PowerCli 5.1 release 1 of my laptop Windows8 or PowerCli 5.0.1 Center Virtual Server itself I can see the following:

  PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI > get-help * drs * | name of ft

  Name
  ----
  Apply DrsRecommendation
  Get-DrsRecommendation
  Get-DrsRule
  New-DrsRule
  Delete-DrsRule
  Game-DrsRule

  Could you please help me to get on the right way to manage groups of powercli DRS?

  Thanks a lot for the help of youe.

  Hello

  I quickly wrote 1 liner for you:

  (get-cluster cluster_name). ExtensionData.ConfigurationEx.group |? {$_.vm}|% {'$($_.name) GROUP found in this group'; foreach ($currentvm to $_.vm) {(get-vue-id $currentvm) .name}}}
  GROUP VmGroup1 is in this group

  vmX

  VMY

  vmZ

  GROUP VmGroup2 is in this group
  UMB

  vmB

  vmC

  vmD

  Let me know if you still have any questions about this

• Disable Hyperthreading via PowerCLI

  Hello Chaps,

  Does anyone know a way to disable hyperthreading CPU via PowerCLI?

  I can tell you if it is enabled or not with this:

  Get-Host | Select-Object Name, HyperthreadingActive

  But now I need to disable...

  Thank you

  Dan

  Hello, dtracey-

  It looks like you can enable/disable hyperthreading on the host using the HostCpuSchedulerSystem, which is part of the HostConfigManager for the host.  So, for a single host, it would be something like:

  ## host upon which to act$strMyHostName = "myhost.domain.com"## get the View object for the HostCpuSchedulerSystem$viewHostCPUSchedulerSystem = Get-View (Get-View -ViewType HostSystem -Property ConfigManager.CpuScheduler -Filter @{"Name" = $strMyHostName}).ConfigManager.CpuScheduler## disable hyperthreading$viewHostCPUSchedulerSystem.DisableHyperThreading()
  

  You can quickly adjust this to any desired hosts, as you wish.  Note, if the method succeeds, this tells the system to not "treat Hyperthreaded as resources can be planned at the next startup the Scheduler of UC", by docs.

• VMware tools take it apart or modify the parameters of CD-Rom via PowerCLI

  Hello

  My problem:

  After the upgrade invited on Redhat Linux vmware tools vmware tools remain in the properties of the vm.

  I mean that the device vm: CD-Rom drive is configured to store data-ISO file [/vmimages/tools-isoimages/linux.iso]

  The CD-ROM drive is not connected!

  I can't Vmotion of such systems.

  Is there a way to define the type of device clientcdrom to 'clientdevice' via PowerCLI?

  I checked some commands powercli: set-cddrive, dismount-tools

  
  

  With the powerclie cmd:

  Get - vm GuestName | Get-cddrive

  I am able to locate systems that have the problem.

  Output:

  IsoPath RemoteDevice HostDevice
  -------              ----------                             ------------
  [] / vmimages/tool...

  Via Vsphere Client, I am able to change the iso data store config in clientdevice.

  and change the mode to emulate ide to ide pathtrough (recommended)

  -> A chip solution would be to automate tasks via powercli this 2.

  2 screenshots:

  

  

  Has anyone automated this 2 tasks via powercli

  Hi, George,

  I think NoMedia - Set-CDDrive switch, it's what you need - it Peel host device or iso file.

  Get - VM | Get-CDDrive. Game-CDDrive - NoMedia-confirm: $false

  Kind regards

  Vitali

  Team PowerCLI