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• How to list the contents of the data store

  Hello

  New to VM, but have been LURKING in the background. :-) I'd like to see what is contained on each LUN via PowerCLI without having to go to Vcenter and browse the data store, I want the news of data store to browse. CLI.

  Hope it makes sense.

  Thank you

  Hello-

  Well, "vmstore" is not a directory, but rather a PowerShell (a PSDrive) drive.  Then, when you cd or Set-Location for "vmstore:", it is comparable to the definition of the location on the D: drive.  You can use "cd d:\". "to move to the PSDrive D:.

  To try to shed more light on this, you can use the Get-PSDrive cmdlet to list all current PSDrives in your PowerShell session, as:

  PS C:\> Get-PSDrive
  
  Name           Used (GB)     Free (GB) Provider      Root
  ----           ---------     --------- --------      ----
  Alias                                  Alias
  C                  31.76         31.62 FileSystem    C:\
  cert                                   Certificate   \
  D                 393.04        538.47 FileSystem    D:\
  ...
  Function                               Function
  HKCU                                   Registry      HKEY_CURRENT_USER
  HKLM                                   Registry      HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
  Variable                               Variable
  ...
  vmstore                                VimDatastore  \LastConnectedVCenterServer
  vmstores                               VimDatastore  \
  ...
  

  Examples of the PSDrives in your PowerShell session: the volumes of Windows on your machine ("C:\ », « D:\ (', etc.), the functions and Variables defined in your PowerShell session ("' function:------" and "Variable:------" "), Windows registry on your machine (" "HKLM:------" and "HKCU:------"-HKeyLocalMachine and HKeyCurrentUser "), and so on.  To navigate to one of those, you can use Set-Location or alias "cd".

  Then, you should be able to do a "cd vmstore:------" go initially to the "vmstore" PSDrive.  How do I?

• Rename files within the data store

  Hi all

  I'm trying to rename some folders and files in my local data store.

  That's what I see in my local data store

  /

  TestBiz-(il s'agit d'une machine Virtuelle)

  . SDD.SF

  TestNav-(il s'agit d'une machine Virtuelle)

  Apps

  images

  TestBiz contains

  TestBiz01.vmdk

  TestBiz01 - 000001.vmdk

  TestBiz01.vmx

  TestBiz01.nvram

  VMware.log

  TestBiz01.vmsd

  Now my problem is the following.  The names of the two virtual machines must be lit.  TestBiz must be TestNav.  If I rename not only the record, but the files themselves who will break my servers?

  I am aware of the mixture to the top, but I don't want others in the future to get confused.

  Any help would be great

  Thanks in advance

  Welcome to the community,

  There was a current discussion on VMs rename (change the name of files and folders in data warehouses) which also contains links to some articles in the KB. However, in your case, the virtual machine has an active snapshot, and you should definitely remove the snapshot before you rename the virtual computer!

  BTW. where the virtual machine is managed in a vCenter server environment, you can automatically rename the virtual machine by changing the name of the virtual machine in the inventory of the GUI and then he migrate to another data store.

  André

• PowerCLI Script required to identify all clusters in a data center and all hosts within each cluster and calculate it using cpu and ram, avg, min, and max.

  Hi all

  I'm new to powercli and try to create a script to list all clusters in a data center and all hosts in a cluster and calculate min, max and avg cpu usage and ram by the host and cluster. So far, I have tried the below but I can't publish the results of my script.

  $Function = @)
  ForEach ($DataCenter Get-Data Center)
  {
  ForEach ($cluster in ($DataCenter |)) Get - Cluster)) - need help to post the information here and confirm if this is correct or not.
  {
  ForEach ($hosts in ($cluster |)) Get - VMHost))
  {
  ForEach ($vms to ($hosts |)) Get - VM)) - do not know if I called you here functions properly
  {
  $allvms = @)
  $allhosts = @)
  $hosts = get-VMHost
  $vms = get - Vm

  {foreach ($vms in $hosts)
  $hoststat = "" | Select the host name, MemMax, MemAvg, MemMin, CPUMax, CPUAvg, CPUMin
  $hoststat. Host name = $vmHost.name
  
  $statcpu = get-Stat-entity ($vmHost) - start (get-date). AddDays(-30)-Finish (Get-Date) - MaxSamples 10000 - stat cpu.usage.average
  $statmem = get-Stat-entity ($vmHost) - start (get-date). AddDays(-30)-Finish (Get-Date) - MaxSamples 10000 - stat mem.usage.average

  $cpu = $statcpu | Measure-object-property value - average - Maximum - Minimum
  $mem = $statmem | Measure-object-property value - average - Maximum - Minimum
  
  $hoststat. CPUMax = $cpu. Maximum
  $hoststat. CPUAvg = $cpu. Average
  $hoststat. CPUMin = $cpu. Minimum
  $hoststat. MemMax = $mem. Maximum
  $hoststat. MemAvg = $mem. Average
  $hoststat. MemMin = $mem. Minimum
  $allhosts += $hoststat
  }
  }
  }
  }
  }

  $Function | Select the host name, MemMax, MemAvg, MemMin, CPUMax, CPUAvg, CPUMin | Export-Csv "c:\Function.csv" - noTypeInformation

  Any help on this is much appreciated.

  [Ordered] casting was introduced in v3 PowerShell.

  For PowerShell v2, you can use

  $vms = get - VM

  $stat = 'cpu.usage.average ','mem.usage.average '.

  $start = (get-Date). AddDays(-31)

  $report = get-Stat-entity $vms - start $start - Stat $stat - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |

  Group-object - property {$_.} @entity.name} | %{

  $cpu = $_. Group | where {$_.} MetricId - eq "cpu.usage.average"} | Measure-object-property value - average - Maximum - Minimum

  $mem = $_. Group | where {$_.} MetricId - eq "mem.usage.average"} | Measure-object-property value - average - Maximum - Minimum

  New-object PSObject-property @ {}

  Datacenter = Get-Datacenter - VM $_. Group [0]. Entity | Select the name of ExpandProperty-

  Cluster Cluster Get - VM = $_. Group [0]. Entity | Select the name of ExpandProperty-

  VMHost = $_. Group [0]. Entity.Host.Name

  Name = $_. Group [0]. @entity.name

  CpuMin = $cpu. Minimum

  CpuAvg = $cpu. Average

  CpuMax = $cpu. Maximum

  MemMin = $mem. Minimum

  MemAvg = $mem. Average

  MemMax = $mem. Maximum

  }

  }

  $report | Sort-Object-property Datacenter, Cluster, VMHost name |

  Export Csv report.csv - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

• How to retrieve the path of the data store

  I am writing a perl script using the API SOAP Labmanager to deploy several configs in Labmanger. After the deployment of the Config/VM, I want to interact with the virtual machines in each config file. To do this, I use the Perl API of VIX. My problem is that I need to know the path of the data of each virtual machine store as soon as it is deployed so that the VIX commands can be run on it.

  The script is multi-threaded. Each thread represents a configuration with a virtual machine.

  I know how to list all the warehouses of data for all registered virtual machines. The name of the virtual machine is not unique, so I can't analyze this list for this. Does anyone know how reliable to get the path of the data for a VM store knowing ConfigID/MachineID or MachineId combo? Ideal, I would be able to sometype of search the ID that will allow to obtain the path of the data store.

  I'm open to VI Toolkit, VIX, or anything else out there that will allow me to get this info (preferably using Perl).

  Thank you.

  I think that's maybe what you are looking for:

  Method LabManagerInternal.GetConsoleAccessInfo

  (public) MKSConsoleInfo GetConsoleAccessInfo

  machineId int

  );

  Parameters

  machineId

  It returns a type of object called MKSConsoleInfo that contains a VmxLocation value. When I tried through soapUI he gave me a valid path to the file in vmx to the machine_id that I went there

• List of the files in the data store for the virtual machine

  Hello

  How to list the files of data store for the virtual machine? I can't find reference to the command.

  Thank you

  If you have installed vCLI and vSphere SDK for Perl, you have extra utilities on top of what is there with the vCLI, take a look at this list: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/viperltoolkit/viperl40/doc/vsperl_util_index.html

  A script that can help with the list of files to store data for a given virtual machine is dsbrowse.pl

  Here is an example:

  [vi-admin@scofield ~]$ /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/host/dsbrowse.pl --server himalaya.primp-industries.com --username root --name dlgCore-iSCSI.test
  
  Information about datastore : 'dlgCore-iSCSI.test'
  ---------------------------
  Summary
   Name             : dlgCore-iSCSI.test
   Location         : /vmfs/volumes/4a26f505-02dfd8a4-6867-003048d9586a
   File system      : VMFS
   Maximum Capacity : 15.75 GB
   Available space  : 11.654296875 GB
  
  Hosts associated with this datastore.
   himalaya.primp-industries.com
  
  Virtual machines on this datastore.
   None
  
  Templates on this datastore.
   None
  
  Datastore Folder Structure.
   Folder Path: '[http://dlgCore-iSCSI.test|http://dlgCore-iSCSI.test]'
   Files present
    testagain
    testlab-1
    testlab-2
    testlab-3
    testlab-4
    testlab-5
    testlab-6
    testlab-7
    testlab-8
    testlab-9
    testlab-10
    testlab-11
    testlab-12
    testlab-13
    testlab-14
    testlab-15
  
   Folder Path: '[http://dlgCore-iSCSI.test|http://dlgCore-iSCSI.test] testagain'
   Files present
    testagain.vmdk
    vmware.log
    testagain.nvram
    vmware-70.log
    vmware-65.log
    vmware-66.log
    vmware-68.log
    vmware-67.log
    vmware-69.log
    testagain-flat.vmdk
    testagain.vmx
    testagain.vmxf
    testagain.vmsd
  

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• Can I write a .bat file to list all files of a specific type?

  With the help that I am here, I wrote a simple .bat file that lists all the files in a directory that I chose.

  I would now like to make a version of which lists all the files in the specified directory that have a .wav extension. Is this possible?

  Here are the existing syntax:

  D:
  CD D:\inetpub\kthings
  dir > C:\tftDocuments.txt
  TYPE tftDocuments.txt

  Can I write a .bat file to list all files of a specific type?

  I do not know.  Can you?

  Tips:

  Go here: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds.mspx?mfr=true

  Or just open a command prompt window (start > run > cmd > OK), and then type a command followed by the characters /? to see information about this command.

  For example, try

  dir /?

  You should also read http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/batch.mspx?mfr=true this http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490982.aspx and maybe this http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1767

• How to list all the users who have the privilege of s/n?

  How to list all the users who have the privilege of s/n?
  
  Peter

  Select * from dba_role_privs where GRANTED_ROLE = 'DBA ';

• Combining the VM with files in the data store

  I apologize for the very basic question.

  I have a few ESXi servers and I need to associate each VM with the related directory inside the data store and each direxctory within the data with the associated directory store.

  With the command:

  SE connect-VIServer-Server 192.168.1.1 - user root - < password >

  I connect with the server.

  With the command

  Get - vm

  I get a list of all VM with the State and the amount of memory, the number of vCPU

  • How can I get path for each computer listed virtual, to the related .vmx file?
    
  • How to browse the data store, the list of the .vmx file and for each .vmx file, get the name of the associated virtual machine?
    
  • What manual download to find the emanations of the arguments of the command get-vm and qualifying?
    

  Concerning

  Marius

  The Get - VM by default displays a selection of properties.

  You can ask all the properties

  Get - VM | Select *.

  or some specific

  Get - VM | Select name, Description

  You can even access the real object of the SDK VirtualMachine

  Get - VM | Select Name,@{N="VMX; E={$_. Extensiondata.Config.Files.VmPathName}}

  PowerCLI comes with a data store provider.

  It is documented in the vSphere PowerCLI Admin Guide, which is installed with PowerCLI.

  With the provider, you can list the files .vmx on data warehouses.

  To find the name of the corresponding client, you will need to retrieve the DisplayName of the .vmx file field.

• Read all files in a folder over and over again

  I want to develop an application that reads all files in a folder, and once its done reading these files, it reads all the files again.

  The purpose of this application is to read all the files in a folder that are stored permanently in this folder, so that when a new file is created, this file is also read by the application. Then I need to compare the date and the time in which the file was created on the effective date and time of the system, so that the path that I can get the latest file, and then I'm going to do other operations with this file.

  The thing is that I know how to read all files in a directory, but I don't know how to do to scroll the files again, to the more recent, and I don't know how to do the comparison between the timestamps, because I need to a precision of one second at the time system and time of creation of the file.

  Can someone help me please?

  Thanks in advance!

  
  

• Find files on the data store that have been removed from inventory, but not deleted from the disk

  I have ESXi 4.1 and with vSphere Client to manage virtual machines.

  Some of my users continue to use the 'remove from inventory"rather than the option" remove disc "in vSphere when they want to delete the virtual machine.

  This leaves the computer virtual on the data store but not used. I have since removed this privilege among the offending users but I need to do a bit of cleaning.

  I have a lot of files on the data store where users have done this in recent years. Probably about 150 records but only 80 VM listed in the inventory.

  Is there a way I can output, a report showing the data of each machine store directory in inventory so that I can remove anything not on this list? ID rather not to manually check the parameters of all 80 VM in the inventory.

  Out ideal would be something like:

  MyVmNameHere 1, \MyVmDirectoryHere1\ [DataStore1]

  MyVmNameHere2, \MyVmDirectoryHere2\ [DataStore1]

  A great tool to discover all this and much more is RVTools

  André

• How to download the VM of remote data store after the backup of veaam task?

  Hi all.

  I created the backup job with veaam in the remote data store and now I want to download the VM fmrom backup store, but I can't find the jobs saved only 4 files veaam VMX file: VMDK, NVRAM, VMXF, VMSD but not VMX... How can I download the virtual machine with these files?

  Yes, in the wizard, select use the existing drive...

• How can I add records to my data store?

  I recently installed hypervisor, but when I look at the section data stores and devices of the Configuration tab in vSphere client I see only 2 datastore with 1 of my disks added.

  Under devices, I see all the records in the list, so I tried to add storage for data warehouses. Running through the wizard, I can see the drives, but when I select one and then I get an error of the stack 'call 'HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions' of object 'ha-datastoresystem' on ESXi "x.x.x.x" failed. "

  My server is not on the HCL, but it does not pass the test hardware. It uses a SATA ICH10 controller, which can be configured as a RAID controller. I tried to change settings in the BIOS for RAID or IDE base, but VMware can see that the first disc (they are all on the same controller).

  Is the issue because of the RAID? That is the hypervisor can install on an environment not RAID, but to create virtual machines, a supported RAID controller will be necessary? I've seen other reviews in the forum suggesting that no RAID should work, but not recommended due to performance issues. For our Organization and the use of this server, performance is not going to be critical, because it will be used as a dev server and we are happy to lose a bit of performance.

  Can anyone tell if you saw this problem, and how it is resolved? The disks are 4 x 2 TB SATA WDC

  Thank you

  Andrew

  You mentioned that you had two discs showing that data warehouses? If you have already installed and configured ESXi and created virtual machines I remove disks and use another machine to set records. There are several linux rescue disks and almost any net for a standard linux distribution installation disc should work as well. It is possible to use the Technical Support in ESXi to do as well, but you may lose your current installation.

• Move the location of the VM swap file in another data store

  Hi all

  Was in a task to move the 1000 to the file location of VM swap on another data store which is newly assigned to Exchange us to the existing store database file that will be decommissioned.

  Eager to check if anyone has made movement swap of VM location of the files to a data store to another and that all measures taken to move.

  Require some VM downtime?

  Thanks in advance a ton.

  Yes it is possible without interruption of service to virtual machines.

  1. make sure that your cluster is configured to use swap data store specified by host

  2. take a host in the cluster in maintenance mode, change the location of the VM configuration file to point to the new data store

  3. do this for all hosts in the cluster

  When you vMotion a VM from one host to another the swap file will get moved to the new data store. Later when you take guests to the maintenance and return output mode, vMotion occurs for each computer in the cluster virtual and file is moved.

• How to delete a record in the data store VMware

  Hello

  First VM4 & VM5 is migrated during the execution of the migration of the VM20, sort of migration of VM4 & VM5 failed a few minutes later. But VM4 folder could be seen under backup2 datastore. When VM4 is migrated again once finished VM20 migration, VM4_1 record can be seen in the data backup2 store.  And VM4 folder includes a DB_backup - flat hard file.

  So I have a few questions:

  (1) how can I remove the VM4 because it's useless?  Should I delete file DB_backup - flat hard and then delete the folder VM4? But I can't find measures to remove the VM4 folder in the store of data backup2. Who can provide the steps?

  (2) how can I rename the folder VM4_1 to VM4 name?

  Thank you!

  Thanks Andre for clarification. Yes, even if the file can be renamed when the VM is turned on but this will lead to issues if we want to migrate the virtual computer to the another data store or if we stop & try to turn on. So please do not rename folder when the virtual machine is running.

  Second approach will work fine.  Renaming that is to display the name of the computer virtual, then SVMotion in another data store & and then you can bring the virtual machine to the previous data store.

  Reference:VMware KB: rename a virtual machine and VMware ESXi and ESX records