MAC address grabbing PowerCLI - creating virtual machines-

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• How to prevent limited users to create virtual machines?

  Hi all;

  Is it possible to prevent standard users to create Virtual Machines in Microsoft Windows environment?

  Thank you

  Here's the problem I see... as long as the user has the ability to run VMware Workstation, you can't stop creating a VM since everything it takes, it's a TextEditor and a live ISO Image and the other can create a configuration manually, .vmx file that it points to the ISO Image and then double click on the manually created configuration .vmx file and its place and running.  Of course not all users would go to the trouble to create the .vmx file manually but there are scripts on the Internet that do and users have other ways too.

  If you don't have the appropriate infrastructure to control your users then monitor their activities and let them know him will be fired if they contravene the regulations.

• Script to create virtual machines fails when you try to add the disk to the cluster data store

  Hello

  Attached is the script that I used to create virtual machines and it works very well when virtual machines are created to warehouses of unique data, but do not have clustered data warehouses. I think that the reason is that it creates the virtual machine through the esx host (who does not know the cluter) and not via vCenter (who knows about it). Unfortunately I do not know how to fix.

  Thank you

  Astra

  Looks like he needs a store of data for this parameter object. So we need to do a get Datastore cluster I can try to test tomorrow, but try this:

  If ($datastore1 - only 'none') {}

  $drscluster = get-DatastoreCluster $datastore1

  $vmadddsk = new-disk-hard - VM $gstname CapacityKB - $datastore1size - data $drscluster store

  }

• Destination area has VMware player 3.1.4. Not possible to run a newly created virtual machine.

  For the first time, I tried to virtualize my machine using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone. The destination machine has VMware Player installed 3.1.4, so I chose, as a destination having VMware 4.0.x instead of VMware 3.0.x as 3.1.4 overflows 3.0.x. The newly created virtual machine does not under VMware 3.1.4. Is there anyway out of this except can create an another VM using VMware player 3.0.x as the destination machine? Thank you.

  Then, you should be able to simply create a (empty) virtual machine with VMware Player 3.x and then just remove the blank virtual hard drive (hard files) and replace it with the one created with VMware vCenter Converter.

• creating virtual machines off templates in Lab Manager

  Hello

  I am using vCenter Lab Manager 4.0.

  I have created several models of machine virtual Windows.

  Now, I would like to create virtual machines on these models.

  Am I able to do it. ?

  If so, how can I achieve that. ?

  I checked in the guide, but found no relevant info.

  Maybe I'm missing something.

  Please provide help. !!

  Thank you.

  Santos,

  First of all, make sure that the model is published.  Means published which are can be used as a virtual machine in the current organization.  If you need to use it in another, make sure you share the model to the user / the appropriate organization.

  2. go into your workspace: workspaces > hand

  3. click on the button "new Configuraiton.

  -Add virtual machines

  -Click OK

  4 deploy the configuration.

  Kind regards

  Jonathan

  B.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009

  NOTE: If your question or problem has been resolved, please mark this thread as answered and awarded points accordingly.

• Problems with the MAC address duplicate when creating new jobs virtual

  We use the MAC addresses of vWorkspace management. This means that we have the option set as an attachment with the basic MAC address pic01. This has worked well so far. We now extend our VDI environment with the new Virtual Machines in a new group. But now, we got the question if we create a new desktop computers, the broker for connections will distribute double MAC addresses (see the pic02 attachment). And as you know it will end in a messy DHCP and TCP/IP. Even if we put the basic MAC address to a new range, the broker for connections always distributes the old MAC address range. We restart the broker for connections rather than on the time and the problem is still the same!

  Does anyone have ideas or solutions to this problem?

  If you need additional information just let me know.

  Versions:

  vWorkspace Broker for 7.6.305.845 connections

  Client tools PN 7.6.0.820 (former VM) or 7.6.0.845 (new VM)

  THX and greetings

  Thomas

  Additional accessories:

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    pic01.jpg

  Hello

  Address management Mac is for groups of clouds. With groups of clouds, the machines get deleted/re-created very often so we need mac address management to allow the mac address be reused after a certain period of time.

  With traditional groups, the machines are kept for long periods of time if you don't use mac addresses that you will get the number you have described management.

  Thank you, Andrew.

• Reports on the created virtual machines

  Is there a way to use PowerCLI to read about events in a given period and to determine how many virtual machines have been created during this period?  For example, from 15 days to 45 days?

  That sounds about right.

• MAC address auto PowerCLI / duplicate MAC

  We have a duplicate MAC address problem when we move to a server a server vCenter to another. Our method to move the server is to disconnect the server from the vCenter server and then attach it to the other server vCenter. For some reason, the MAC address reviews does not change when it is attached. I would assume vCenter regenerate an unique MAC address based on the unique ID of vCenter but apparently not. Then the old vCenter seems to affect the old MAC address again on the next guest created therefore create duplicate address.

  We try to automate the process of moving to a guest from vCenter for vCenter via PowerCLI. One of the hotfixes in the duplicate MAC addresses is to set it to manual and back to auto ( http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esxi41_vc41_rel_notes.html )the problem comes when we want to set the MAC address of a MAC auto return manual. The setting of the MAC address manually is no problem, but we can not seem to figure out how to set the MAC address of return via PowerCLI. Anyone know of a solution?

  Thanks in advance for any help provided.

  Zac

  We run vCenter server 4.1 & ESXi 4.1 U1.

  Take a look at the MAC address of the automatic switch generated with Set-NetworkAdapter.

  Who could do what you're after.

• Same range of MAC addresses with vSphere 2 Virtual Center

  Hello, we have two virtual center of vSphere that create VM with the same MAC address range,

  00:56:B0:00:00... the other a virtual center... so be very carefully to not

  VM in duplicate with the same mac address...

  Could I change attribution AUTOMATIC of the beach of one of our virtual centres?

  Thank you very much

  ---

  
  Francisco Javier Morales Lopez of Gamarra

  VMware VCP | LPI - CCNA

  Edited all the line caps object according to the rules of the forum, AWo.

  If you have two vCenter servers to ensure that they have different instance ID because they are used to generate MAC and UUID for VM addresses...

  This is explained in this KB here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1024025

  / Rubeck

• Report - create virtual machine usage reports

  Please forgive me. I am very new to Foglight and this might be a ridiculously simple question, but I hope someone here can help me.

  I have installed the plugin VMWare with Foglight.  My superiors are wanting me to run a report that will get an overview of 6 months several servers (5 specific VM) usage of resources (CPU, memory, and disk i/o are the main resources, they want on, but other measures as network can be useful as well).

  I found a report named "Machines use virtual - Detail" which seems promising, however, when I try to run a report, she asks a "service". How can I enter in the name of the virtual machine I want information on? Make a query or a database search? By the way, I tried the data and drilled down to the name of the virtual machine, but it was not selectable.

  Please forgive my ignorance, and I'd appreciate any help that can be offered.

  Hello

  The report takes a "service" as input, which is a way to group objects (for example, virtual machines) in Foglight.

  1 - Start by going to the Services-> Service Builder.

  2 - Click on "Add new category" and fill in the fields.

  3 - Click on the Add button next to your name of the category which has been created.

  Select 'Add components to this service' then 'add a specific component '.

  4. Select VMware in the drop-down list, filter on 'Name containing' as appropriate.

  Search for objects of type 'VMWVirtualMachine' and select the most appropriate, then "add components" when finished.

  You should be able to go back to the report, use this Service (category) and stock.

  Hope that helps.

  

• Failed to create virtual machine using VMWare Workstation 11 (test)

  Hello people,

  I installed VMWare Workstation on my machine Windows 10 and trying to create multiple virtual machines to test the object. I have done this before on the Windows 7 computer and did not face any problems, but this time, as soon as I gave the location of the file to deploy an operating system it comes up with some fatal errors as error BLK_CACHE IOERR if I have enough space on the HARD drive and everything is not going further. So, my question is if my computer has compatible with Windows 10 problems or there is something else that would cause this problem. Any help or comments would be appreciated on this topic.

  Thank you!.

  Thanks for your answer, Noel

  I was going through discussions in the community with similar and found subjects that VMWare had released 12 pro workstation that supports Windows 10 entirely. I personally installed it on my physical machine and it works. Here is the link for the release of Workstation 12 notes.

  VMware Workstation 12 Pro Release Notes

• Get the address IP of the virtual machines by name of VLan

  Dear,

  There the script for the list of virtual machines with its IPS and VLANs?

  as VLan VMName name, IP Address,.

  Concerning

  Rajesh

  The following modification of my previous script shows that IPv4 IP addresses:

  Get - VM |
  {ForEach-Object
  $VM = $_
  $VM | Get-VMGuest | Select-Object - ExpandProperty NIC |
  {ForEach-Object
  $Nic = $_
  foreach ($IP in $Nic.IPAddress)
  {
  If ($IP. Contains('.'))
  {
  "" | Select-Object - property @{Name = "VM"; Expression = {$VM. Name}},
  @{Name = 'IP address'; Expression is {$IP}},
  @{Name = "NetworkName"; {Expression = {$NIC.NetworkName}}
  }
  }
  }
  }

• Someone at - it a simple example of creating virtual machine-> the affinities of virtual machine using the PERL API?

  The question just about everything said. Is there a perl extracts to create an affinity between the virtual machines.

  Thanks, Vikas, for example and guidance. Since I am abel to make it work, I thought I'd share the code example:

  My $vm_name_list;    # A list of names of virtual machine.

  My @vm_morefs;      # Filled in the managed object refes to the virtual machines, this detail not included.

  My $cluster_name;    # Name of the cluster to create the rule in

  # Find the Cluster Compute resource object.

  My $cluster_views = Vim::find_entity_views (view_type-online 'ClusterComputeResource',
  filter-online {name-online $cluster_name});
  If (! @$cluster_views) {}
  Die "no cluster don't compute resource named $cluster_name detecte\n";
  }

  My $cluster_view = $cluster_views-> [0];

  My $rule_name = 'affinity for $vm_name_list. "

  # Create the nest of objects required for ReconfigureCluster_Task:
  #
  # ClusterConfigSpec
  rulesSpec #-> [ClusterRuleSpec]
  operation #-> ArrayUpdateInformation
  # enum (add, modify, delete)
  Info #-> ClusterAffinityRuleSpec

  My $aff_rule_spec = new ClusterAffinityRuleSpec (name => $rule_name,)
  enabled-online "TRUE."
  mandatory-online "TRUE."
  VM-online \@vm_morefs);

  My $array_update_operation = new ArrayUpdateOperation ("add");

  My $clus_rule_spec = new ClusterRuleSpec (operation => $array_update_operation, info-online $aff_rule_spec).

  My @clus_rule_specs;
  Push (@clus_rule_specs, $clus_rule_spec);

  My $cluster_config_spec = new ClusterConfigSpec (rulesSpec-online \@clus_rule_specs);
  $cluster_view-> ReconfigureCluster_Task (spec => $cluster_config_spec,)

  change-online 'TRUE'));

• Creating virtual machines on ESXi 5 and move to ESX 4.1

  Hello

  I need to create and configure computers virtual (with operating system and applications) on an environment with vSphere host ESXi 5.0 U1 U1 5.0.

  After that, I want to move the virtual machine to another environment vSphere, located in a branch office, but this time the version is 4.1 U1 (ESX 4.1 U1).

  Do you know if it is supported by VMware? will be the machine working properly?

  Thank you.

  Andrea

  No, it is not necessary because the tools are backward compatible

• Creating virtual machine with existing data

  Hi all

  I have virtualized my almost all servers except the one and only one file server.  I'm under vsphere 4 with 2 ESXi hosts and a 2000 Eternus model 100 SAN and using Veeam 6 B & R

  Current configuration

  Physical server with 2 network cards

  1 NETWORK LAN card

  1 SAN NETWORK card using MS iSCSI initiator

  Windows 2003

  There are 2 volumes on my SAN which is connected via the MS iSCSI initiator containing the data for the file server.  Server file sharing (NTFS) files stored on the San, and they have a lot of NTFS permissions on files and folders (approximately 1.5 TB of data).

  Ideal configuration

  1 virtual server

  1 vNIC to LAN

  2 volumes of SAN share via the server

  Windows 2008 r2

  My question

  Can I just add volumes to vsphere, create a virtual machine, add the two volumes of the virtual machine as 2 hard drives, the actions of installation and do with it?  I wonder where the permissions are checked and if these measures can be made without wiping the volumes.  I don't have another 1.5 TB of free space on the SAN.  I have a Netgear NAS I use as a target for backup if necessary but I prefer not to have to move the data if it is not needed.

  I hope that I have covered all my bases to make this easy to understand situation and we hope to meet .

  Thank you

  Welcome to the community - Yes, you would be able to present the NTFS on the computer virtual hosted on your server using a RDM (Raw Device Mapping). Permissions on NTFS volumes are stored in the NTFS file system-