Is it possible to rename a virtual machine built with vCAC in vCAC?

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• rename several virtual machines based on the State of food & VM name

  I'm looking for a powershell script to rename the virtual machine based on the state name and vm power.  For example, I have several virtual machines with a - temp at the end of the name of the server.  Some are turned on and some are turned off.  I am wanting to rename only those who is off

  Thank you

  tjw82

  Assuming that - temp is part of the name

  Get - vm | where {$_.powerstate - eq "poweredoff"} | foreach {Set-machine virtual - VM $_ - name (($_.name).)} Replace ("temp", "delete"))}

• Rename the virtual machines

  Howa would I move through a group of VMS and rename them based on their former name?  For example, I have 20 VMS appointed

  VM1

  VM2, etc..

  and I want to rename them to

  VM1-old

  VM2-old, etc.

  do something like

  Get - vm vm * | set-vm-name ($_ .name + ""-old "")

  It does not work quite right however

  Thank you

  Hello, TheVMinator-

  You were pretty close, just need to add a Foreach-Object loop and exploited each computer virtual returned by Get - VM as follows:

  Get-VM vm* | %{Set-VM -VM $_ -Name "$($_.Name)-old" -Confirm:$false -WhatIf}
  

  Note that I left the - WhatIf parameter there so that when you run this, it shows you just what he would do .  To actually rename the virtual machines, just take the - WhatIf.

• Is it possible to migrate a virtual machine between vcenter servers programmatically?

  Hi all

  My question is quite simple:

  -Is it possible to migrate a virtual machine between vcenter servers programmatically?

  Let's say we have two data centers:

  vcenter1

  -vm1

  -vm2

  vcenter2

  -vm3

  Is it possible to migrate vms between vcenter2 and vcenter1 programmatically? (or vice versa)?

  Also, I'm assuming that the appropriate VLAN and data warehouses across the different vcenters!

  Thank you

  Luis

  It is not possible, vMotion or migration live is in an instance of vCenter, it cannot be covered through two even if you have the data store accessible both vCenters and sets of the host. At best, you can unregister the virtual machine of vCenter 1 host and re-save as on vCenter 2 host, but once again, it is while the virtual machine is turned off.

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• Rename the virtual machine name

  Hello

  I created a virtual machine, called Win2k3test, so a record is produced for win2k3test.     I would rename the folder of Apps1 include files and the name of the vmdk file?

  What is the best way to achieve this?

  Thank you

  Hey Chris,

  I recently used the instructions in this link and they work well to rename a virtual computer.

  http://communities.VMware.com/blogs/CFO/2008/08/13/how-to-change-virtual-machine-name-with-service-console

• What is a virtual machine built on Workstation 6.5 on Workstation 6.0?

  What's a virtual machine built on VMWare Workstation 6.5 work on VMWare Workstation 6.0?  Must I first uninstall VMWare tools?  Thank you.

  Yes, it will run.

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• Is it possible to delete a virtual machine by UUID

  I'm trying to script for power down and remove a virtual machine by UUID, is it possible?

  Hi skyjacker99,

  This should work:

  Get-VM | where {(Get-View $_.Id).config.uuid -eq ""} | Remove-VM
  

  Kind regards

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• Is it possible - installation of a virtual machine with Server 2008 on a disc and use the other drive for storage

  I have a Dell power edge server with 2 Configuration of disks 1 TB in raid 0

  I can install a Win Server 2008 R2 and SQL 2008 R2 on a VD without problem, but I do not see the other disk of TB in option within Windows Server to be used as storage SQL only.

  How can I get the two disks to appear in Windows server?

  what I want is:

  First Dell 1 TB drive VD = Server 2008R2 and SQL on C:\

  Second VD Dell 1 TB drive = D:\ like disk storage

  do I have to configure the Dell VD another way or is it possible

  
  

  Thank you

  
  

  
  

  You basically configure the virtual machine that you want on all the available storage (do not forget to keep free space, for example snapshots). -As I understand it - is so that ESXi does not see the storage! This is often caused by the RAID controllers not taken in charge or the RAID issues. Please check if the RAID controller is supported as well as the configuration. BTW. Why do you want to configure RAID0? If you want to create two virtual disks on warehouses of separate data anyway, simply present to ESXI as two separate disks/volumes.

  André

• How is it possible to clone a virtual machine cluster when data warehouses not presented in source and destination

  I did not know that on ESX 3.5, in order to afin de vivre live clone a virtual machine from one ESX host to another, source and destination stores had to be available. However, I'm currently cloning a virtual machine to a host in a datacenter and cluster to one host in a different data center, but the destination store is not available at the source host and visa versa.

  How is that possible?  This is a new feature of vSphere?

  That seems to work on the console port. See this thread: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1475721#1475721

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• Possible to suspend a virtual machine, and then disconnect the SAN?

  I decided to do an interview on a small environment ESX 3.5 and I was wondering if its possible to suspend a VM and then disconnnect the SAN to maintain SAN.  If I record data suspends storage local would this work? Is it more fast and stop the virtual machine and the power save?  There is the performance of 6 virtual machines on a single host with a single iSCSI SAN.

  was wondering if its possible to suspend a VM and then disconnnect the SAN to maintain SAN.

  A suspension is identical to a power off, it shows just the guest to Hibernate.  So yes, it is safe.

  Is it more fast and stop the virtual machine and the power save? There is the performance of 6 virtual machines on a single host with a single iSCSI SAN.

  No its not faster, its more fast and more reliable to power off the virtual machine rather than suspend.  If you need to follow the process and suspend its critical use, otherwise a scheduled interruption is better.

• is it possible to access the virtual machine when the network is down...

  Hello. He... IAM wondering is it possible that we can access the virtual machine when the network is down... (Because of power outages or when the fluctuations...) ................?

  Is it possible that I can configure my Virtual Machine...?

  Thank you and best regards...

  Indianmale...

  Hello

  Not really...

  For an environment hosted... If you can access the console of the host, you can always access the console of the virtual machine regardless of the State of the network outside of the console. VMware Workstation, Fusion and server all fall into this category.

  For ESXi/ESX... you need a host outside to access the console of the virtual machine. ESX and ESXi not displayed graphics or VMs of their consoles and management devices. So, you need an external machine that can run the vSphere Client or access to the virtual machine via RDP, VNC according to Guest OS involved or SSH.

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• Is it possible to use a virtual machine like XP Mode to use a driver that is incompatible with Windows 7?

  The driver is for a former Lego Mindstorms USB IR Tower. The device itself appears in Windows 7, but there is no drivers compatible with a 64 bit version of Windows 7 or Windows Vista. I know with certainty that the driver is compatible with XP SP 2 and a 32-bit version of Vista, and it could be compatible with a 32-bit installation of Windows 7.

  I have XP Mode, set up on Windows 7 64 bit machine, but the unit will not go through to the virtual machine. I read on another forum that if the driver of a measuring device is not compatible with Windows 7 the device does not appear in the virtual machine.

  Is there a workaround that doesn't involve using a separate XP machine or installation of XP on a virtual machine of third party such as Oracle?

  Don't know if this will work in your situation, but you can disable checking 'signed' driver for Win7
  in the start menu. Jut tap F8 during Windows startup, and then choose-
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• Is it possible to create a virtual machine on a network share?

  I have a server from SuSE 11 running samba to share files and directories files in my PC XP x 64. I installed VMware Player on my XP machine and went through the steps to create a virtual machine on my SuSE server. Vmx and vmdk files is create successfully, but when I try to start the virtual machine I get the message: ' could not open the virtual machine: you don't have access rights to this file. " However VirtualBox (also installed on my XP machine) doesn't have this problem. Indeed, I created the virtual machine of player in the same shared directory I use for my VirtualBox VM to eliminate the permissions on the linux side issues. Is this a limitation of the player?

  Kind regards

  John

  Unfortunately, for me, it would not solve my problem. My problem is that I have to allow the IP addresses and aliases on my Server LDAP (with Openfiler) to give them access to my network share. I am able to access my Windows XP operating system network sharing. When I run Ubuntu in a virtual machine, I am able to access the network share here as well. But when the Player tries to access a virtual computer on the network, it gets the message "access denied." That tells me that my SIN is either see a different IP or ID different from the drive. I can see all network (including virtual) cards, and I welcomed them into my LDAP. So, for me, that means that somehow the player is trying to access my network share with some other than the user ID, I am connected to my computer with.

  To test, I will set up one of my linux boxes, install Player it and see if it has the same problem to access a network share. Then who will tell me if it is perhaps a shade of Windows Networking/authentication, or if it is OS independent and everything in the player.

  Would be nice if I could get a logfile out Openfiler (or any application) which showed when an unauthorized access attempt was made. Then I could easily get the user ID and IP address and add it to the LDAP server. But, alas, I was not able to find such a newspaper or a tool that will do it.

  Michael

• Is it possible to migrate a virtual machine to thin provisioned disk?

  I have about 100 VM in a resource pool dedicated to called "Archive"... Well, archiving.  These virtual machines are currently powered off but every now and then we will get pulled for a developer to work on (they are for the most part, the virtual computer with client customizations if they are changed about once a year).  I'm quickly running out of space on this SAN but all discs are thick provisioned and using the disc is maybe 20-30% on average.  Also, I want to move them to a new large store of data I created for them.

  Of course, I choose Migrate & gt; Change store data & gt; Thin provision in vSphere Format and I'm done.  However, it would be nice to not do this 100 times.

  Move-VM does not seem to be capable of this, and I have not been able to find a workaround.  Is there a way to convert the thin and then perhaps Move-VM? Or I'll just on this all wrong.

  Thank you!

  You can try this script?

  He's moving vms to data store 'EMCSAN:Datastore01' trying to change the format of storage for Thin

  $dsView = Get-Datastore -Name "EMCSAN:Datastore01" | Get-View -Property Name
  
  Get-VM  | % {
  $vmView = $_ | Get-View -Property Name
  
  $spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
  $spec.datastore =  $dsView.MoRef
  $spec.transform = "sparse"
  
  $vmView.RelocateVM($spec, $null)
  }
  

  / Yasen

• Import the virtual machine created with .exe files

  Hello

  I'm new in the world of the virtual machines, and I'm sorry if I'm going to say something stupid.

  I take a .net class and the teacher has a virtual machine (windows XP with software) ready to pose with 4 .exe files.

  I installed VMfusion but now I have no idea how / if I can import the teacher VM fusion.

  Is this possible? If this is not the case, what can I do else?

  Thank you very much

  Luca

  Find a Windows PC and run the exe files to extract the virtual machine, precompiled.  Just copy the folder of the entire virtual machine on your Mac, and then open/run the virtual machine using the merger.  VMware virtual machines are portable between products and host operating system - there should be no reason to "convert" or "import".