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• How to get VM to the .vmx file path when you have the VM name?

  Hi all

  I use the latest version of VIX API to power on virtual machines on an ESX Server. I work with c# in Visual Studio 2012 and currently I have power on the virtual machine by using the following code:

  VMWareVirtualMachine virtualClientMachine = host. Open (vmMachinePath, 2100);

  While this works, I think it is better to be able to turn on the virtual machine when you know the name of the virtual machine and not the path. So, how can I get the path to the VM to the vmx file when I know the name of the virtual machine? For example, if my VM on the ESX Server is called WIN7GERMAN, how I can get the path and pass this to the host. Opening function?

  Thanks for any help or code.

  John

  VM names are not unique, that's why it is not supported.

  You can use VixHost_FindItems() and locate the VIX_PROPERTY_FOUND_ITEM_NAME property without papers and use the associated VIX_PROPERTY_FOUND_ITEM_LOCATION to get the value to pass to VixHost_OpenVM().  You have to deal with duplicate however names

• How can I register all of the VMX files found in a list of stores of data with new names

  Hello-

  I'm trying to find a way to search through a given list of data and each discover a warehouse. VMX file, add this machine in the inventory I want to prepend the name of the machine as something different. That is to say, instead of "Machine1", I wish it were registetred as "auto-Computer1.  So, imagine I have an empty data center with 4 warehouses of data stored in a table $arrDatastoreToInclude.  I want to loop through each of these data stores and add all the VMX files I found back in the inventory.

  I know that I can use the following to get data warehouses I want:

  $dsindatacenter = get-data center $DataCenterName | Get-Datastore? | {$arrDatastoreToInclude - contains $_.} Name}

  But I have no idea how to analyze these data stores for the VMX files and what command to add them in the inventory.  Can anyone help?

  Try the following, it is based on the script of the position that Robert mentioned.

  You will need to provide a file (in $VMFolder) where unregistered virtual machines will be stored.

  The Set-VM cmdlet will take care of the rename.

  $DatacenterName = "MyDatacenter" $arrDatastoreToInclude = "DS1","DS2","DS3","DS4"
  
  $dc = Get-DataCenter $DataCenterName $dsindatacenter =  Get-Datastore -Datacenter $dc | ?{$arrDatastoreToInclude -contains $_.Name}
  
  $VMFolder = "MyFolder"
  $ESXHost = Get-VMHost -Location $dc | select -First 1
  foreach($Datastore in $dsindatacenter) {
      # Collect .vmx paths of registered VMs on the datastore     $registered = @{}
      Get-VM -Datastore $Datastore | %{$_.Extensiondata.LayoutEx.File | where {$_.Name -like "*.vmx"} | %{$registered.Add($_.Name,$true)}}
  
     # Set up Search for .VMX Files in Datastore    New-PSDrive -Name TgtDS -Location $Datastore -PSProvider VimDatastore -Root '\' | Out-Null    $unregistered = @(Get-ChildItem -Path TgtDS: -Recurse |         where {$_.FolderPath -notmatch ".snapshot" -and $_.Name -like "*.vmx" -and !$registered.ContainsKey($_.Name)})
      Remove-PSDrive -Name TgtDS
     #Register all .vmx Files as VMs on the datastore   foreach($VMXFile in $unregistered) {
          New-VM -VMFilePath $VMXFile.DatastoreFullPath -VMHost $ESXHost -Location $VMFolder |
          Set-VM -Name ("Auto-" + $_.Name)
     }
  }
  

  Unregistered virtual machines will be saved with Displayname that is present in the VMX file.

  If this would cause a conflict with VM already registered, you can use the Name of the cmdlet New-VM parameter

• I need a way to search search all the .vmx files

  I have a problem with vMotions in vCenter 6.0 I migrant to ESXi 5.5 with standard switches to a vCenter 6.0 with distributive switches.  For your information, here is the process.

  (1) unplug the host to vCEnter 5.5

  (2) add a host to vCenter 6.0

  (3) migration of ESXI 5.5 to 6.0 ESXi host with the installation of a standard switch.

  4) migrate to 6.0 with standard switch ESXi ESXi 6.0 with D-switch.

  Full migration.  The reason for the double jump is that esxi 55 can't change host and network to a switch-d so I have to get to ESXi 6.0 first.

  It all works very well, but for some reason, the .vmx file doesn't change not the port group. She is always present the standard switch. How ever VMS are on the rise and connected, the web client shows the port of switch-D group.  But when I do a vMotion it changes again in the d switch and the VM crashes.

  I have a case open with VMware to solve this, but I need to get the other VMS migrate without failure.

  The explanation may have been a bit long-winded, but here's what I need.

  I'm OK with PowerCLI but it is a bit outside my experience.  Can we create a script for watching all the ethernet ports in the .vmx for all virtual machines files see what port on their group name?

  Thanks for any help

  Tree!

  Try like this

  Get - VM | Select Name,

  @{N = "PG"; E = {(Get-NetworkAdapter-VM $_ |)} {(Sélectionnez-ExpandProperty NetworkName) - join ' |'}}

• Files of the FVO, how are the disk file stored?

  The OVF format must be a file format independent of platform for the delivery of virtual machines between virtualization systems different.

  I guess that there is a standard how do has for example the VMX file out of this and to understand how read, but what of the disk to ESXi file? From what I saw there could be a with the OVF *.vmdk file, but how this is handled on another platform of virtualization? (Since I assume also that the flat.vmdk file isn't a total area for the sector of raw disk file?)

  Take a look at the specification at http://www.dmtf.org/sites/default/files/standards/documents/DSP0243_1.1.0.pdf to see if that answers your question.

  5.2 virtual disc formats
  OVF does not require any specific disk format to use, but to conform to this specification of the format of disc must be given by a URI that identifies a unused specification on how to interpret the format of disc. The specification should not be readable by machine, but it must be static and unique for that URI can be used as key by reading an OVF package software to determine only the format of the disc. The specification must provide sufficient information so that a person skilled in the art can correctly interpret the format of disk for reading and writing data to disk. It is recommended that these URIS are resolvable.

  There are also a lot of other links to specific documentation for the OVF format to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format

  André

• Question about the .vmx file created on ESXi

  I'm trying to automate the creation of a virtual machine and take a snapshot. I use the vSphere SDK Perl.

  The problem I faced is if I create a virtual machine called TestVM, the .vmx file created on the ESXi is TestVM_1.vmx instead of TestVM.vmx due to which my snapshot creation fails.

  I faced the same problem, if I manually create the virtual computer. If there is no other computer virtual with the same name.

  A restart of the server ESXi fixed the problem.

• Having problem to add code to the .vmx file.

  I try to add the code below in my .vmx file.

  mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE".
  MemTrimRate = 0
  prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100".
  prefvmx.useRecommendedLockedMemSize = 'TRUE '.
  sched.mem.pshare.Enable = "FALSE".
  I added my vmx file attachments, so you can take a look.
  I added these lines of code to the wrong file?

  After that, I am unable to open the virtual machine and get an error message:

  http://i50.Tinypic.com/33mwub9.PNG

  IM using Windows 7 pro on the host computer. With the help of VMware Workstation 8

  Help please! =)

  The file you connected, Windows 7 vmxf, isn't the .vmx config file and does not have the file, you should be editing!   Remove your Windows 7 vmxf file changes and edit the .vmx instead.  If you still have questions after that cleaning of the .vmxf file and modifying the .vmx file and then archive them both in a zip file and attach to a response message.

• How create the CSV file delimited by tabs using ORACLE utl_file?

  How create the CSV file delimited by tabs using ORACLE utl_file? Please provide the code sampl.

  This isn't a problem with Oracle, it is a problem with the way you open the data in Microsoft Excel.

  In Excel, you want (depending on your version may vary slightly)...

  Office 2010...

  1. go in the Ribbon "Data".

  2. click on 'text '.

  3. Locate and select your file, and then click "import."

  4 step 1 of the wizard - choose "Delimited", then click on "next >".

  5. step 2 of the wizard - choose "Tab" as the delimiter and click on "next >".

  6. step 3 of the wizard - define types of column as needed (if necessary) and click on "Finish".

  7. check where you want the data in the worksheet.

  Data is loading now in single cells as you expect.

  If you just double-click the CSV, Excel is apparently assuming that it will be separated by commas and does not recognize tabs as separators, unlike when you rename the file with a .xls extension where it examines the file, complains that it is not a content .xls and asks you to confirm that you want to continue loading and then intelligently recognizes the tabs and the format for you.

  As I said, not a problem with Oracle, just a problem with the MS Excel software.

• Need help updated the VMX file on several Virtual Machine

  All,

  Can anyone help with a problem I'm having?  Here is a brief explanation of what is happening and what we need to solve.

  Recently we found out that we need to add a line in the file VMX of several virtual machines.  In the past, I was able to do this, but would have cold start the virtual machine for the changes to take effect.  Starts cold won't be a problem, because we can program it.

  However, no one knows a way to add this line in the file VMX virtual machines in a cluster.

  Here's the line I need added:

  Devices.hotplug = "false".

  Here is a script that was used earlier (esx 3.0 days) to keep the VM tools updated on reboot.  At this point, if the virtual machine has been turned on, this change could not do through the UI.  However, this script worked to update the .vmx file and then we have cold reboots for the changes to take effect.

  Get-viserver - < Server > - < user > - < password >

  $viview = get-Cluster-name NOMCLUSTER | Get - VM | foreach-object {get-view ($_.ID)}
  $viview | {foreach-object
  $vmConfigSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools = new-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.afterPowerOn = 'True '.
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.afterResume = 'True '.
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.beforeGuestStandby = 'True '.
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.beforeGuestShutdown = 'True '.
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = "UpgradeAtPowerCycle".
  $_. ReconfigVM ($vmConfigSpec)
  }

  The exact script can be found in Disable HotPlug

• Information in the VMX file reader

  Is virtual and RDM disk information saved in the VMX file?  Type the location of the disk (virtual disk or Raw Device Mapping) file, disk, node mode and peripheral ramdisk (independent, persistent or not persistent) and compatibility (physical or virtual) mode.  I only seem to be able to find the disc mode and part, part of which is in a hexadecimal format.

  Thank you

  gwok01,

  The information in the Client VI if manually browse you your VM (s) and look at its disk configurations, you can tell whether a RDM (physical/virtual), as well as other attributes. This information is stored within each ESX/ESXi host and I am just extract VM (s) that contain a ROW (s) and printing gives information by using vimsh.

  I remember not casual if this information is also stored in vCenter, if hosts are joined, but you may also be able to interrogate the VMDB if you use vCenter.

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

  -William

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

• By script of the vmx file changes?

  I have a number of existing VMs that I want to add some advanced configuration settings. Instead of using the GUI to add the values, I would like to automate the process. My plan is to write a script that turns off the virtual machine and adds the new values (isolation.tools.x or isolation.device.x) in the vmx files. Is - this safe/advisable to do so via a script? Someone at - it an example of existing script, they would be willing to share?

  If you want to do with just the VI Toolkit itself, then you will need to do something like this

  $vm = get - View (Get - VM NameofVMtoUpdate) USER.USER
  $vmConfigSpec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig = new-Object VMware.Vim.optionvalue
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig [0]. "Key ="lefthandsideofentry"
  $vmConfigSpec.extraconfig [0]. ' Value ='rigthhandsideofentry + '.
  $vm. ReconfigVM ($vmConfigSpec)

  Where

  • NameofVMtoUpdate is the name of the virtual machine that you want to update (from the vCenter inventory)

  • lefthandsideofentry is the entrance of advanced configuration, that you want to set

  • rigthhandsideofentry is the value of the advanced configuration entry

  As an alternative some of these people who hang out on the VI Toolkit region have implemented a set of Powershell extensions for the VI toolkit available from CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com/vitoolkitextensions). Game-TkeVmx will allow you to set values (essentially the same code as above just rolled into a function to keep your code cleaner)

• How to add comments in the .vmx file?

  The subject says it all.

  How do I comment in a .vmx file?

  Thnaks in advance.

  Start the comment line by "#".

• Using several data stores, cannot migrate the vmx file in a data store

  I am host migration between 3.5 and 4.0, and part of the migration requires me to vmotion data to a single shared LUN data warehouses.  From there on, I import the virtual machine in 4.0 and using the script to migrate the two VM disks at different stores of data below.  The problem I have is that the configuration (vmx) file not migrated and is left on the shared storage LUNS.  Anyone knows how to go beyond this?

  The Script:

  $VMDisk = 'disk 1 '.

  $VMName = 'TestVM '.

  $TargetDS = get-Datastore - VMHost (Get-VMHost-$S.id Id) | Where-Object {$_.} Name - like "PMV"} | "" FreeSpaceMB tri-objet-descending | SELECT name - first of all 1

  $vm = get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine-filter @{"Name" = $VMName}

  foreach ($dev in $vm. Config.Hardware.Device) {if ($dev. DeviceInfo.Label - eq $vmDisk) {$diskId = $dev. Key}}

  $spec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec

  $diskspec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator

  $diskspec. Data store = (Get-Datastore-name $TargetDS.Name |) Get - View). MoRef

  $diskspec.diskId = $diskId

  $spec. Disk = @($diskspec)

  $task = get-View ($vm. RelocateVM_Task ($spec, "lowpriority"))

  OK, I think I understand your problem now.

  I fear that in the current construction of PowerCLI, the Move-VM cmdlet does not destinations of individual data for each virtual hard disk store.

  With the RelocateVM_Task method, it is possible.

  The following script moves a guest at 3 different data warehouses:

  -the. VMX file for DS2

  -hard disk 1 for DS3

  -hard drive 2 TB DS4

  $vmName = "MyGuest"
  $vmxDS = "DS2"
  $osDS = "DS3"
  $dataDS = "DS4"
  
  $vm = Get-VM -Name $vmName
  
  $vm.Extensiondata.Config.Hardware.Device | %{
       if ($_.DeviceInfo.Label -eq "Hard disk 1"){
            $osDiskId = $_.Key
       }
       elseif($_.DeviceInfo.Label -eq "Hard disk 2"){
            $dataDiskId = $_.Key
       }
  }
  
  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
  
  $osRelocate = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator
  $osRelocate.Datastore = (Get-Datastore -Name $osDS).Extensiondata.MoRef
  $osRelocate.diskId = $osDiskId
  
  $dataRelocate = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpecDiskLocator
  $dataRelocate.Datastore = (Get-Datastore -Name $dataDS).Extensiondata.MoRef
  $dataRelocate.diskId = $dataDiskId
  
  $spec.Disk = @($osRelocate,$dataRelocate)
  $spec.Datastore = (Get-Datastore -Name $vmxDS).Extensiondata.MoRef
  $spec.Host = $vm.Extensiondata.Summary.Runtime.Host
  
  $task = Get-View ($vm.Extensiondata.RelocateVM_Task($spec, "lowpriority"))
  while("running","queued" -contains $task.Info.State){
       $task.UpdateViewData("Info")
       sleep 5
  }
  

  BTW, you can use the cmdlet Set - hard disk to a virtual disk that is specific to a data store.

  But as I understood what is not possible in your environment.

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• Re-create the .vmx file

  How can I re - create the virtual machine that has been corrupted VMX file.  When I tried to do so he created a new title _1. I removed the VM of the inventory, to recreate the VM, choose the same data store, but did not work.

  If VMX virtual machine file is corrupted, then what is the best way to restore with the same records? Thank you.

  just in case

  http://KB.VMware.com/kb/1002294

• I nned to know the procedure I use to get can Mac 2008 Desk top that will not start. I don't know how to connect two computers, my portable Mac Air 2013 on my desk, now I need to know how get the workstation files in order to appear on my mac air so I can

  Does anyone know how after I connect to my office 2008 Mac (which will not start.) to my computer laptop (2013 Mac Air). What are the steps that I need to know to get the Desktop files is displayed on my mac air so I can copy files to your laptop, especially my Itunes folder.

  Thanks Jerri

  If you can't get the iMac began and ongoing implementation, you will not be able to use the target disk Mode:

  https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT201462

  Then the option is to take the iMac HARD drive, install it in an enclosed, and connect the HARD drive to the MBA via the USB port.  If the HARD drive is recognized, you can copy the data out of it.

  Ciao.