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  I looked to see if there was a way to get the mac address of a virtual machine without VMware tools running.  I know that you can see this information for vSphere gui when you change the material, so I think it would be accessible without VMware tools, but maybe not.

  Does anyone know if/how this is possible?

  Thank you

  Michael

  That's right, you have no need for VMware tools must be installed to retrieve the MAC address, there are other attributes such as host name comments for example which is only available when the tools are installed.

  Take a look at this script to retrieve the MAC address of virtual machines: getAllVMMacs.pl

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• Stop virtual machines with or without VMware tools installed

  So after a power failure major where I work has taken place where the batteries of the UPS only ran about 10 minutes and the emergency generator didn't kick in, I was put in charge of writing a script that starts to stop the virtual machines and servers in a given cluster. Now that I am relatively new to the environment here, so I don't know if all the virtual machines have the tools are installed. I want to cover all bases and the virtual machines that do not have the tools installed. My script done now is it initiates closing the comments on all the virtual machines and check every 10 seconds to 120 seconds for virtual machines go offline if after 120 seconds, there are even virtual machines online, it issues a shutdown command on all servers that have not stopped. Now, he'll catch all the virtual machines, but I don't want the machine have to wait 2 minutes before totality if it can be avoided (remember that this script will be executed when the data center goes to the power of the UPS for every watt account to keep critical systems online). the script throws an error when it cannot stop because no tool is installed, so I thought I could use a try/catch block to catch the error and send just a detroit of turning control of these VMs off. I tried to do, but without success.

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  Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
  $server = $args [0]
  $cluster = $args [1]
  SE connect-VIServer-Server $server
  $counter = 0
  {}
  If (Get-Cluster-name $cluster | get - vm | where {$_.powerstate - eq 'receiving'}) {}
  If ($counter - eq 0) {}
  Get-Cluster-name $cluster | get - vm | where {$_.powerstate - eq "receptor"} | stop-VMGuest-confirm: $false
  }
  Write-Host "VMs are on waiting" (120-$counter)"seconds"
  $counter = $counter + 10
  Sleep 10
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  }
  While ($counter - 110)-or ((Get-VMHost |)) Get - VM | where {$_.powerstate - eq "receptor"}) .count)-No 0
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  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  Try something like this

  $vm = Get-VM
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  Virtual machines running VMware tools will get a judgment of comments, while the virtual machines that do not have the VMware tools running, will get a poweroff.

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  [EXPERIMENTAL] The synchronization of VMware filesystem (vmsync) driver is a new feature which

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  do

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  GNU Make 3.81

  Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  This is free software; See the source for copying conditions.

  There is NO WARRANTY; not even a MARKET value or fitness for a

  PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

  This program built for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

  [root@logger bin] # / usr/bin/make - v

  GNU Make 3.81

  Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  This is free software; See the source for copying conditions.

  There is NO WARRANTY; not even a MARKET value or fitness for a

  PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

  This program built for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

  [root@logger bin] #

  
  

  Thank you in advance. Kevin
  

  I solved this problem by upgrading VM Workstation v10 v8.

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  As a newbie here, is there a way I can move this post a status resolved?

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  Are their any comparison between a system running vanilla versus a running vmware tools installed?

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  Tools will only help IO performance (not counting usually do things like graphics and synchronization times work better).  If your virtual machine has no important networking or storage needs, then you probably don't need the tools.  I'm usually not worth.

  If you want very good performance network without tools, make sure you use a device virtual e1000.  You can define ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000".  This is not quite as good as real vmxnet (or new vmxnet3) but is much better than the default vlance. If you regularly push 1Gbit or more real traffic to your virtual machines, I would consider it.

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  Hello

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