How to delete a virtual machine in a script

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• Deletes a virtual machine of vCenter possible?

  Hi all.

  We used to be a Horizon view manual pool composed of virtual machines
  from vCenter server. In a single operation for removal of VM in view, we

  wrong selected pool and confirmed the deletion. The

  operation put merrily and when we realized the error, we

  find vsphere client that all VMs funds (a lot of them

  were running) in the manual pool view both were removed from the inventory

  and from the disc in vCenter server.

  This offends and confuses us. It is commonly accepted that it is
  Cannot delete a virtual machine running of vCenter: vSphere client no
  won't give you a possibility to do so, and doing so in a CROWD ends by default.
  But the view above disaster might suggest otherwise.

  I have two questions:
  1. is it possible to delete a virtual machine running of vCenter?
  2. If so, how to prevent in vCenter?
  3. (somewhat off topic) is it possible to come up with any hacking or

  This makes it impossible to remove vm disk Office while being

  able to manipulate the view of the pool? We prefer to rather in vCenter.

  =====================================
  The mistake that we made to remove all the Horizon view desktop VMs:
  1. login to VMware view Horizon administrator.
  2. based on the inventory, select the pool.
  3. in the view of the pool, select the tab "inventory."
  4. Select and right click on a desktop PC, select 'delete pool... '. »
  5. confirm the deletion.

  Software used:
  vCenter Server: 5.5.0, 1945274
  View of the horizon: 5.3.1 generation-1634134

  Kind regards
  Nathalie Sun

  Post edited by: sunrenjie6

  Hello Sun Nathalie,

  Finally, I was able to create your question on my test bench, but as I said earlier, it is not possible to remove a power on the virtual machine, which was true. When I deleted the pool which consists of power on VM, I saw in the VC that VM were power off first and delete.

  I also talk to the team from the horizon and they said that this device is designed this way to support several other features. To save accidental deletion of the s VM that they introduced the warning message.

  Sorry for your loss.

  Thank you

  DJ

• How to move the virtual machine from one cluster to another cluster

  How to move the virtual machine from one cluster to another cluster

  If two Clusters are in the same data center, you could do a 'live' migration or vMotion, if that's the case.   If the virtual machine is turned off, it may be migrated regardless of the data center.

• How to access the virtual machines to different physical network?

  Hello

  I'm new to ESXi, can someone tell me how can I access virtual machines on the physical network existing in case I use different IP classes? Physics of the network by using the class C IPs and I assigned IPs to virtual machines of class A? If it is possible, then, what are the steps?

  In fact, I installed exchange 2010 VMs and also want to access the email accounts of physical network.

  Thank you.

  vmjunki wrote:

  You mean there's no way in ESXi to configure the way so we can access the virtual machines to physical network? without third-party applications.

  Because it is impossible for the various networks IP connect without a router, you must have such a device. There is really no difference in that in a pure virtual or physical environment.

  You might think the ESXi host as a box with one or more servers (virtual) inside and one or more layer (virtual) two switches, just like a small server room. This means you will need to provide the same type of connectivity that you would have to a new server room with machines configured with addresses in a different IP network range.

• VShield Configuration Manager 4.1 (and how to protect a virtual machine?)

  I have 2 ESXi hosts currently configured in vCenter 4.1.  Before vShield installation Manager, he had 3 vSwitches present on each server; a regular and two distributed.

  • vSwitch0 - connected to vmnic0 - has management and production of network 1 10.168.90.x

  • VLAN 10.1 - VMFN connected to vmnic1 on each host - connects to the private physical network 10.1.x.x

  • VLAN 10.2 - VMFN connected to vmnic2 on each host - connects to the private physical network 10.2.x.x

  After you install vShield Manager in a new virtual machine and then to deploy vShield Zones to each ESXi host, develops a new vSwitch

  vmservice-vswitch - again group of ports in Virtual Machine vmservice-vshield-pg - not connected to any physical cards

  VMS individual vShield-FW created for each host have connected network cards as below

  • Production network normal 1 - VM Network adapter (attached to vSwitch 0).

  • Production network normal 2 - VM Network adapter (attached to vSwitch 0).

  • Adapter 3 - vmservice-vshield-pg network

  I tried to connect my VMs to the network vmservice-vshield-pg in order

  to protect them and place them behiind the firewall.  However, who has

  seem to work, and my VM has lost network connectivity.

  How to protect a virtual machine that needs to connect to the normal production

  Network (on vSwitch0)?  Is there any configuration steps I'm missing?

  What happens if I want to connect a virtual machine or one of its network cards to one of the 10.1.xx

  or 10.2.x.x networks rather than the normal 10.168.90.x network?  What

  additional steps should I make?  The new 4.1 documentation is not

  helped at all, and it seems that the old vShield Zones 1.0 docs are not

  applies to all.

  There is no need to change the virtual computer is connected to the network.

  Just activate/install vShield zones on your hosts and add rules to the vSwitch or data center.

  The virtual machine will be becomes protected if no error is displayed.

• How to move a virtual machine from one virtual switch to the other since the SDK / command line?

  How to move a virtual machine from one virtual switch to the other since the SDK / command line?

  Joshua Smith

  Are you referring to the evolution of the virtual machines network portgroup of one to the other and in your case potentially issue on to another vSwitch? If so, take a look at this script: updateVMPortgroup.pl everything you do really makes a call to ReconfigVM_Task() and passing in a specification change and put to day the network in which you want to change

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

  repository scripts vGhetto

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• How to make the virtual machine in 64-bit with VMware6.5

  My CPU: AMD Turion 64 * 2

  Operating system: Windows xp 32

  Question:

  I want to run Open solaris 2008 which is 64 bit, I did a virtual machine but it is 32-bit. You tell me how to make the virtual machine in 64 bits in VMware6.5, I really appreciate.

  Yes.  Power off the virtual computer.  Change the settings.  Change the guest OS to Solaris 10 to Solaris 10 64-bit.

• Delete the virtual machine to the specified date

  I'm trying to write a script to remove a virtual computer on a certain date.  Currently, I want people to add this in the name of the virtual machine "VMname_Delete-/ 1/1/14", I then search for the virtual computer with:

  Get - VM | where {$_.name - cmatch "Delete-\d\/\d\/\d"}

  With that, I'm sure that the correct VM is selected, and I tested it with virtual machines to make sure.  Now comes the hardest part (at least for me), I want to take the date to which belongs the VM name, convert it to a DateTime and then compare it to the current date.  If they match, I want to remove the virtual machine.  I tried something in the sense of:

  Get - VM | where {$_.name - cmatch "Delete-\d\/\d\/\d"} | foreach {$_ .name-split "-"}

  Which of course divide the table edge, and on tests, I had an output similar to:

  VM_Delete

  01/01/14

  Of course, now I don't know how to finish the rest.  I thought that the script would be something like:

  Get - VM | where {$_.name - cmatch "Delete-\d\/\d\/\d"} | {foreach}

  If (($_.name-split «-»)-[DateTime] - game (get-date-format ' MM/dd/yy'))

  {Remove-VM - VM $_ - DeletePermanently}

  }

  I don't see the logic in my head, but of course, I just can't write they way I think it should go.  Any help is appreciated.

  Perhaps you could do something in this direction

  $now = get-Date

  Get - VM | where {$_.name - cmatch "Delete-\d\/\d\/\d"} | {foreach}

  $dt = [datetime]($_.) Name.Split('-') [1])

  If ($dt - lt $now) {}

  Remove-VM - VM $_ - DeletePermanently

  }

  }

  With the use of the index ([1]), we select the date part of the name of the virtual computer.

  Then we have "cast" the string into a DateTime object.

  Note that typeface could cause problems, depending on the culture settings you use.

  Worse, divide you the date on the character string ' / ' and then generate the DateTime object as follows

  $now = get-Date

  Get - VM | where {$_.name - cmatch "Delete-\d\/\d\/\d"} | {foreach}

  $dummy, $year $day, $month = $_. Name.Split('-') [1]. Split('/')

  $dt = get-Date-day $day - month $month-year $year

  If ($dt - lt $now) {}

  Remove-VM - VM $_ - DeletePermanently

  }

  }

• Deleting a virtual machine

  I'm having a very difficult time trying to find how to delete a machine virtual vcenter through the SDK (the doc leaves much to be desired). I found the method unregisterVM() of the command VimPortType (just the syntax, no explanation of what it does), but after using it, it just gets rid of the VM inventory - all files are still on the data store.

  I want to get rid of the files as well as registration in the inventory. I found a method

  unregisterAndDestroyTask() , 

  but there is also no explanation of what it actually does.

  Can someone tell me please how to get rid of a vCenter virtual computer and the data store completely?

  There is a generic 'delete' method called Destroy_Task() http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/vim.ManagedEntity.html#destroy which is applicable to different types of objects, including a VirtualMachine, HostSyste, Datacenter, etc depdning on the object, it will do different things. For a virtual machine, it will remove the virtual machine and it has associated the disc for a HostSystem, it will just remove it from vCenter

  The UnregisterVM_Task() is just, that he cancels his registration vCenter or ESX (i) inventory, but leaves his records intact. If you want to destroy everything, you want to use the Destroy_Task()

• WS8... Delete the virtual machine list

  I have 8 Workstation for Windows (running on Windows 7 x 64), just put at level towards the new generation today. The other day, I deleted a VM by going to my directory and just delete the VM folder. Now 8 Workstation, it still shows the VM it but when I click it, it gives me an error (not found) as it should.

  If I right click on this missing virtual machine, it gives me just an option to play. How can I remove these virtual machines in the list if there is not a virtual machine it more? Is there a file I can edit or a parameter somewhere? I have searched but can't see to find.

  I am looking for and looked through 10 pages here and not see this question, unless I missed it, so please give me a link and close this post.

  Thank you!

  Edit
  C:\Documents and Settings\userApplication Data\VMware\inventory.vmls

  and if still necessary
  C:\Documents and Settings\userApplication Data\VMware\preferences.ini

• How to cancel a virtual machine?

  Morning,

  After trying to return to a capture instant hot our vcenter server is suspended with an error that the cpu is in a different family.

  The virtual machine has not changed hosts (I think) I understand that the way to solve this problem is to re - save the vm on the host.

  We use the ESXi 4.1.  I can't find the orders or instructions on how to do it.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  The virtual machine tries to regain the State of snapshot saved in the following file.

  06:25:50.938 25 Apr: vmx | CPT: Restoration of control point/vmfs/volumes/4ca074a5-7f211820-c561-0023aef861ac/GAL-VC01 /GAL-VC01 - Snapshot3.vmsn

  Unless you discover on which host the snapshot was taken or what happened (e.g. BIOS update) during the snapshot date and now, you can delete this file. The result would be comparable to a system reset.

  André

• How to activate Java Virtual Machine (JVM)? I updated yesterday and somehow, he found himself distraught.

  I've upgraded to the latest version yesterday and when I went to a website of the Government today, it tells me that I have no access until I have activate the Virtual Machine (JVM) Java. How can I do this? (I access this site using Internet Explorer - but I prefer Firefox)

  If you upgraded from a version of Firefox before Firefox 3.6, the Java version you have installed is not recognized. Firefox 3.6 and later versions require Java 1.6.0.10 or higher; you have Java 1.6.0.05

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  (~ ~ Red: Firefox 3.6 and above all requires Java 1.6.0.10 or higher ~ ~; see: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Java-related+issues#Java_does_not_work_in_Firefox_3_6 )
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  "Bug fixes ".
  Java SE 6 Update 21 contains no additional patches for vulnerabilities to its previous version, Java SE 6 Update 20. Java SE 6 Update 20 users have the latest security patches and don't have no need to upgrade to this version is current on security patches. " Source: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u21.html

• 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".

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  guestOS = "windows7-64.

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

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• How to install the virtual machine to ISO image

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  and also you can refer to this link

  VMware Workstation 12 Pro Documentation Center

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  First duty (if the customer has a button for this) eject the CD in the comments, then ctrl-alt to focus the host, right click on the CD icon in the bar area of low right state of the workstation user interface and select disconnect; repeat, and then click edit. Select the image ISO next necessary; reconnect; then click the mouse back in the window of the customer and to know that the next CD is loaded.

• How to migrate a virtual machine of vsphere vsphere 4 5

  I have a vsphere 4 and a 5 of vsphere, I want to migrate a virtual machine of vsphere vsphere 4 5

  my method is export ovf model and deploy the model of the FVO in vsphere 5, but it shows "end of file EGGS reached while looking for: * hard.

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  Thank you very much

  Hello

  Why are you trying with VMware Converter?

  https://my.VMware.com/Web/VMware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/5_0

  It's the right tool for this kind of tasks/migration

  However, if you share with us details about your environment, we can help you more accurately.

  Concerning