List virtual machines and their data warehouses

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• List virtual machines and their DNS server settings

  I try to list virtual machines and their primary and secondary DNS server addresses.  Are the cmdlets in vmware that can do this, or would I need to use the invoke-script command.  I have the list of virtual machines and I want to list them all with their DNS server addresses.

  I tried to use the wmi objects such as:

  Win32_networkadapterconfiguration get-wmiobject - computername "servername |

  Select name, DNSServerSearchOrder

  It would give me the specific server name and addresses of dns.

  But I need the list of servernames which I would like to list some and their

  DNSserversearchorder settings (DNS settings)

  I tried to put the servernames list in a text file using

  Get - vm | Export-csv C:\computername.txt - notype

  Then I used the get-content command and the pipe in the get-wmiobject

  command like below:

  $servers = get-Content c:\computername.txt

  ForEach ($server in $servers)

  {get-wmiobject Win32_networkadapterconfiguration - computername $server

  | where {$_.} IPEnabled-fits 'True'} | Select-object

  name, DNSServerSearchOrder

  But when I run this command fails with errors such as a pipe empty

  element is not allowed.  I don't know if the above script has all synatx

  error or what is the best way to get a list of servers and their dns server

  Parameters.

  I know the wmiobject maybe out of this range in these newsgroups but there at - it a script in powershell, vmware or windows powershell to get a list of servername (which are mostly VMS) and their DNS server settings.

  Try the following script to get the DNS search order:

  Get-Content c:\computername.txt | `
  ForEach-Object {
    Get-WMIObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Computername $_ | `
      Where-Object {$_.IPEnabled -match "True"} | `
      Select-Object -property DNSHostName,DNSServerSearchOrder
  }
  

  Best regards, Robert

• Need a script to list all virtual machines on specific data warehouses

  I am trying to find a way to list all virtual computers on specific data warehouses. I use vSphere 5.1 and so far I got this:

  Get-Datastore. where {$_ .name - like ' * XXX * ""} | Get - VM | Select name, @{N = "Datastore"; {E = {Get-Datastore - VM $_}} | Sort name | FT - one

  This kind of work, but it would be perfect if I got this:

  -Group data store

  -Unique virtual machines (VMS to report only to the data store where the VMX)

  Any help appreciated.

  I relied on the fact that the first in the list would be the data store that holds the VMX, which apparently is a misconception.

  Try like this

  Get-Datastore-Name ' * xxx *' |

  Get - VM | Select the name,

  @{N = "Datastore"; E={$_. {{ExtensionData.Config.Files.VmPathName.split ('[]') [1]}} |

  Tri-objet-property data store name |

  Format-Table - AutoSize

• Reports on virtual machines and their records

  I want to create a report on all my virtual machines and disks attached to each.  My preference would be to have the information in a .csv, so I can work with it in Excel.  What I've done so far has proved frustrating as I find it hard to combine the two.

  What I tried:

  1 VI Toolkit - I know I can run the command 'Get - VM' and "Get-hard drive" to get everything I need, but the combination of the two is beyond my current abilities of PowerShell.

  2 Report.ps1 of alanrenouf - gives a lot of information, but nowhere close to what I need.  I considered trying to modify this script, but I thought that it would take more time than learning how to make #1.

  3 OpenXMPowerTools - get this utility approach work still takes hours without result, more work than it's worth

  I have a few scripts (VBscript) skills, it is just their transfer in the new PowerShell environment for me I have difficulties with that.  I'm picturing extract names VM of the command Get - VM and then providing them to the hard disk-Get command and write VM name and output in the .csv file.

  Any help you can provide me with would be greatly appreciated to learn PowerShell.

  Thank you

  Joey

  Did you watch his pretty good RVtools and maybe gives you options of export or copied data and import it with excellent that.  Its very nice ESX administration tool.

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  Kind regards

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  iGeek Systems Inc.

  VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

• Virtual machines on NFS data warehouses freeze when snapshots are deleted

  I'm running 3 ESXi 4.1 update 1 guest (essentials more license) with shared storage on a NetApp FAS2040 accessible via NFS. 5.2 PHD virtual is deployed for backups. Each time the backup is completed on a virtual machine and the snapshot is removed, the virtual machine in question freezes completely (not yet responding to pings) for 10 to 30 seconds. The issue is documented in the following VMware article:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1031106

  However, while the article claims that the problem has been resolved in a fix, I persist it despite running on the last level of patch (build 433742). Is that all that I should have done after installing the latest patch? If the issue is not yet fixed, is there one solution other than to switch to iSCSI?

  According to Ko, the patch is ESXi 4.1 patch ESXi410-201104402-BG contains vmware-tools. One thing to try is maybe upgrade your vmware tools in the virtual machine? (I don't know if you have upgraded)

• Identify and list virtual machines, whose last date power is more than 3 months ago

  I'm looking for the right properties to look in the determination of the last date for a virtual machine under tension.  I would like the virtual machines on the list and ask users to either delete them or their state object.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  A faster way to do this is to use the trick I used in my post.

  *) get all the poweron invited

  *) to find all the powerons of the last 3 months

  *) list receiving guests who were not lit during the last 3 months

  $vms = Get-VM | where {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"}
  $vmPoweredOn = $vms | %{$_.Name}
  $events = Get-VIEvent -Start (Get-Date).AddMonths(-3) -Entity $vms | where{$_.FullFormattedMessage -like "*powered on*"}
  $last3Months = $events | %{$_.Vm.Name} | Sort-Object -Unique
  $vmPoweredOn | where {!($last3Months -contains $_)}
  

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• List of virtual machines and their vmdk?

  Does anyone know of a way I can export each vm name and it's corresponding vmdk file name? I want to reconcile these since I know that several guests were famous and I would like to match their respective vmdk file names. I hope that there is a cool super PuTTY command so I can't install and play with PowerGUI powershell plugin: Pei

  Maybe something like RVTools

  ... also, this seems to be a pretty easy fix as well using PowerCLI

  http://ICT-freak.nl/2009/10/11/PowerCLI-virtual-machine-disk-VMDK-info-v2-analyze-data-with-Excel/

• 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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• List of all virtual machines and their memory allocated procs

  Y at - it a script that will list all the virtual machines in my environment and how many processors and memory is allocated for them? Thanks in advance for your help.

  This isn't really a PowerCLI thing, but you can see RVTools

• How to use SMotion to move a virtual machine on two data warehouses

  
  Hello, I have a virtual machine that has two VD (VD1 and VD2) and they are on different data (DS1 and DS2) warehouses.  The OS is on VD1 and VD1 on DS1.  Data on VD2 and VD2 is on DS2.

  Is it possible to use SMotion to pass just VD1 of DS1 to anthers datastore (DS3) but leave VD2 on DS2?

  I tried to move, but I don't see an option to move just a VD.

  Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance.

  I found the ADVANCED button on the section of storage of the migration wizard, see the screenshot below.  It allows you to individually select your locations of migration.

  Hope this helps someone.

  

• Get-stat - disk for virtual machines on NFS data warehouses

  Hi all

  Through work for VMs on NFS data warehouses get-stat-disc?

  $myVM | Get-stat - disc

  Doesn't seem to work for VMs on NFS data warehouses, but that works for VMs on VMFS data warehouses.

  After a presentation of VMware to http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h78Db7LqHcwJ:www.slideshare.net/vmwarecarter/powercli-workshop+%2Bget-stat+%2Bnfs & cd = 2 & hl = in & ct = Europeans & gl = at the & source = www.google.com.au

  «WARNING: NFS performance statistics are not available (to come in a future version of vSphere).»

  When these statistics are available for NFS data storage?

  Kind regards

  marc0

  The answer is in the property of instance data that Get-Stat returns.

  (1) get-Stat ==> canonical name of the LUN on which disk the hard

  (2) get-Stat virtualdisk ==> The SCSI id of the virtual disk inside the VM

  (3) get-Stat data store ==> the name of the data store

  (1) you give statistics for view virtual machine i/o activity starting from the LUN. For a VM with several virtual disks on the same data store, this will display the total IO statistics. And it will also include i/o generated by another VM on the LUN as swap, Flash files related...

  (2) gives statistics for 1 specific virtual disk of your virtual machine

  (3) statistics of e/s of your VM to a specific data store. Interesting when you have a store of data with multiple extensions (multiple LUNS)

  I hope that clarifies it a bit.

• Virtual machines and their Snap Shots

  Hey Gang,

  When I delete a VM disk, which also removes the clichés that were taken from the virtual machine?

  At least it should be. There may be situations where some files remain on the disk, for example an instant tree with different forks was created and the .vmsd file is corrupted.

  André

• Script to the list of virtual machines with their VMDK on warehouses of data with their LUN ID.

  Hey gang - I have one here, I wonder if anyone has some ideas...

  Our storage team is looking for a report that can be generated to display each VM, each VMDK for this virtual machine and the data store on the VMDK is the canonical name of the data store - and throw in a delimited file of semicolon for their own transformation...

  I have thousands of VMS over hundreds of hosts and data warehouses and also have a handful of RDM. so, I'm looking for the most effective way to go about it.

  Should look like this:

  VMName; VMDKName, the data store; MONDAY

  somevm; somevm.vmdk; DATASTORE1; NAA.60050723145982asd29823blahblah1

  somevm; somevm_1.vmdk; DATASTORE2; NAA.60050723145982asd29823blahblah2

  Any ideas?

  The following PowerCLI script will give you the report requested on the virtual machines and their VMDK files. It also takes account of the fact that a data store can have several extensions:

  Get-VM |
  Get-HardDisk |
  Select-Object -Property @{N="VM";E={$_.Parent}},
  @{N="VMDK";E={$_.FileName.Split('/')[1]}},
  @{N="Datastore";E={$_.FileName.Split(']')[0].TrimStart('[')}},
  @{N="LunID";E={[string]::Join(',',((Get-Datastore $_.FileName.Split(']')[0].TrimStart('[')).Extensiondata.Info.Vmfs.Extent |
    Select-Object -ExpandProperty DiskName))}}
  

• VM and their data store

  I am trying to find a way to write a script that translates into 2 columns, the name and the data store.  The Name column contains the name of the virtual machine and the data store is the normal name of data store.  I am new to PowerCLI and just get frustrated trying to figure this on my own.  Help, please.

  Try it like this

  {foreach ($vm in Get - VM)
  Get-Datastore - vm $vm | Select @{N = "VM"; E = {$vm. Name}}, name
  }

• Newbie question: list the Configuration of virtual machines and data warehouses

  Hello

  I'm new on using powercli how to list all virtual machines in a certain data center, their memory, Procs and what data warehouses they are on.

  I know you can use get - vm | Select-object name, NumCPU MemoryMB but if I add DatastoreIdList as well, it doesn't seem to work.  What Miss me

  Thank you very much

  Laurence

  That's right, you could do

  Get-VM MyVM | Select Name,@{N="DS";E={[string]::join(',',($_.datastoreidlist|%{(Get-View -Id $_).Name}))}},Description |
      Export-Csv "C:\test.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

  Just look at whether the separator for CSV is be a comma in your culture, you probably need to adjust the separator in the Join method!