Modify the script for multiple virtual machines

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• List of data store, SpaceProvisioned, Spaceused for multiple virtual machines

  Hello

  I want to list the data store, the SpaceProvisioned, the Spaceused for several virtual machines.

  I wrote the following lines, but this didn t work:

  $vms = get - VM v998spwmv10175n
  {foreach ($vm to $vms)
  $vmname = $vm. Name
  $vmdiskprovisioned = $vm. ProvisionedSpaceGB
  $vmdiskused = $vm. UsedSpaceGB
  $vmdiskpath = get-disk hard - VM $vm | Select file name
  Select @{N = "VMname"; E = {$vmname}},
  @{N = "VMDiskPath"; E = {$vmdiskpath}},
  @{N = "VMDiskProvisioned"; E = {$vmdiskprovisioned}},
  @{N = "VMDiskUsed"; E = {$vmdiskused}} | Format-Table

  }

  What wrong with it? I'm away right?

  THX in advance

  Chakoe

  The following script lists each vDisk in a separate line. The VMDiskProvisioned and VMDiskUsed properties are always those of the virtual machine.

  $vms = Get-VM v998spwmv10175n
  & {foreach ( $vm in $vms ) {
    $vmname = $vm.Name
    $vmdiskprovisioned = $vm.ProvisionedSpaceGB
    $vmdiskused = $vm.UsedSpaceGB
    foreach ($HardDisk in (Get-Harddisk -VM $vm)) {
      $HardDisk | Select-Object -Property @{N="VMname"; E={$vmname }},
            @{N="VMDiskPath"; E={$HardDisk.FileName}},
            @{N="VMDiskProvisioned"; E={$vmdiskprovisioned }},
            @{N="VMDiskUsed"; E={$vmdiskused  }}
    }
  }}
  

• Can join a Cluster of storage disk out of Maintenance DTS Mode to set up the profiles for a virtual machine storage policies?...

  Can join a Cluster of storage disk out of Maintenance DTS Mode to set up the profiles for a virtual machine storage policies?...

  
  IE can you define the rules of affinity DTS depending on how the rules of storage of profiles are configured for a virtual machine?

  In my mind it seems there is disconnect from the DTS and storage profiles.

  Thank you.

  = NOTE =.

  My lab at home, 2 organizes running ESXi 5.0

  Dv01 has

  Of startup vmfs 7200 RPM 160 G = dv01-BOOT

  Vmfs 1 TB 7200 RPM = VM02-VMFS

  VM02 has

  Of startup vmfs 7200 RPM 160 G = VM02-BOOT

  Vmfs 1 TB 7200 RPM = VM02-VMFS

  Vmfs 5900 RPM 2 TB = VM02-TV01

  I have (3) facility profiles of storage using 'User-defined storage Capablity' as shown below:

  (160 @ 7200 RPM SATA) boot > Boot

  Fast (160 7200 RPM SATA and 1 TB @ 7200 RPM SATA) > fast

  Slow (2 TB @ 5900 RPM SATA) > slow

  Then, I set up a storage Cluster with my local disks on dv01 (only to date)

  LocalVM disc dv01-BOOT and dv01-VMFS disk of the 'cluster of storage.

  I have a computer virtual called DC01 (HardDisk1) want to live on 'Boot' profile storage drive
  His "Non-compliant" poster according to the storage profile, it should run on drive 'boot' on dv01

  To get to this point, I put the StorageCluster in Mode of Maintenace 'DTS' and forced a sVmotion of all virtual machines off dv01-BOOT

  No disks are IO or claim of space.

  But once I take the 'DTS Maintenacne mode' STARTUP dv01 floppy is now get the DTS to return him to satisfy the storage profile (rule) I install... IE do the 'storage profile' VM complient (without doing a few externall API, the PS script or the 3rd party software calls)... ??

  Seems weird it is (or may be) such disconnection of a memory of the profiles and the StorageClusters and the DTS?

  Thank you...

  At this point, I think that storage DRS and storage profiles are two technologies to separate and work independently, but what you suggest is a great idea-

• How to configure the CD driver on the host for a virtual machine?

  After you create a virture machine and put the CD of driver on host, when powered on the vertual machine, may not start the drive form the CD only from NIC.

  How to configure the CD driver on the host for a virtual machine?

  Right-click on the virtual computer and go to edit settings. Click the Options tab and under the tip list, there should be Boot Options. Enter an amount of milliseconds to wait before your boot, so you can activate the CD-ROM. You can also activate the CD even if it boots to the NETWORK card option, and then reset the virtual machine. Get the focus of this virtual machine on the console session, and then press ctrl-alt-insert. Your CD-ROM will stay connected if you do not want to delay the startup process.

• Upgrade VMware Tools for multiple virtual machines by power Cli

  Hello

  I'm looking to improve the tools of vmware for several virtual machines through scripts. As VM1, VM2, Vm3,... VM50.

  Update-tools-VM VM1 - NoReboot  (Applicable only for virtual machines unique sound)

  Any help will be appreciated in do I have to upgrade about 100 VMs which was migrated from ESX3.5 to ESXi4.1

  Thank you

  VMguys

  The cmdlet Update-tools has a NoReboot parameter.

  When you set this switch, normally should not be a reboot after the upgrade.

  Get-VM-name (1.50 | % {' VM$ _ "}) | Update-tools - NoReboot

  If you set the switch to $false, there will be a restart if necessary.

  Get-VM-name (1.50 | % {' VM$ _ "}) | Update-tools - NoReboot: $false

  Note that this method of first creating a table with all the names of the virtual machine you want, is faster than the previous example, I gave.

  In this case you only do a Get - VM with all the names, instead of 50 individual.

• Single VMDK for multiple virtual machines in esx3.5?

  Hello

  Is it possible to use a single VMDK to host several VM in ESX3.5 or is this feature on the way?  I think the vmware view tech that allows you to host multiple virtual machines to a single image and store only the deltas for VMS replca.

  We organize several ts who are about 12 GB per image, and each server is essentially the same.  It would reduce the space if these could be consolidated at the level of vmware.

  Thank you very much.

  What you are referring to the notion of linked Clones, it's something completely different to share a single VMDK.  with linked clones, you actually run mulitple copies of a single Machine.  This fuinctionality is not available in ESX Raw but is a characteristic of Lab Manager and VMware View Premium.

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  VMware communities user moderator

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• WAIT % - % IDLE, what is the average for a virtual machine?

  I did some research on performance of VM problems and worked with the media to see that there is maybe a bottle neck IO that occur with a virtual VMware machine I have performance problems on. The technician found that the WAITING % - % IDLE on average for this virtual machine is around 200%. The tech said it was abnormally high. I forgot to ask her what was normal but wanted to put a post to see if some people out there know what they are on average. What is an average number of see? I have the system done nothing right now and I see 579% waiting and 372% IDLE. The technology has been able to confirm that no IO queue was occurring in the VMkernel or on the HBA controller.

  Some average % positions would be useful. Thank you.

  gdewulf18480 wrote:

  Supposibly the amount of time in a State of waiting for I/O is the WAIT - IDLE % difference. I was wondering if anyone had the numbers for this feeling. Is there anyone with some of them?

  Q: How will I know the VCPU world waiting for I/O events?

  A: WAIT - % IDLE % can give you an estimate on how much time processor is spent waiting for I/O events. It is an estimate only, because the world wait perhaps for other than the i/o resources. Note that we should do it only for the worlds of the WWW, not the other kind of worlds. Because the VMM worlds represent the best guest behavior. For the disk i/o, another alternative is to read the disk latency stats that we explain in the drive section.

  WAIT % by itself cannot be used, you must develop and examine the individual vCPU % EXPECTATION values and subtract their idle time.  You can't do it on the initial view of a single line by VM CPU in esxtop.  If technology that you mentioned did not explain it, he doesn't know what it takes.

  I have lots of virtual machines that are never less than 300% when I wait - % idle and I have no problems.

  It is an example, I caught NimSoft server:

  DHSNMS1 100 100 5 192.63 193,80 0.24 0.03 291,44 1.04

  %EST USED (s) 192 - in other words, almost two processors are used 100%

  The %Idle is 1.04% WAIT 291.44 - according to the calculation of waiting idle, I have a super serious problems of e/s past  But this isn't the case, and expanding, I can see that.

  5665 vmware-vmx 100 1 0.09 0.11 100.00 0.00 0.00 0.01

  5667 100 vmassistant.566 1 0.62 0.65 99,63 0.00 0.00 0.00

  5703 100 mks:DHSNMS1 1 0.01 0.01-100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

  5704 vcpu 100 - 0:DHSNMS1 1 32,35 32.88 67,28 0.28 0.11 67,14

  5705 vcpu 100 - 1:DHSNMS1 1 31,58 32.05 68.11 0.00 67.85 0.12

  So the changed values unfortunately because of ESXTOP bike when you develop... which is annoying, but anyway.  In this you see % waiting is 67 and 68 with another respectively being 3 to 100% (which is normal) and the idle being %, 0, 0, 0, 67 and 67.8.  Doing the calculation on the processors shows a wait - slowed virtually 0 - or very little IO wait past with processors.  But if you add up all the expectations of % and % is idling, you have 434ish, and the 134ish and do the calculation is the difference of 300 - which is the 3 who are always 100%.

  So there is no way we can answer your question, we can only help you to understand how the values should be interpreted.

  Waiting for i/o States almost always go on the disc anyway, it is unlikely, therefore, the network or the user entered, looking at the stats of disc ESXTOP is a much better way to determine if there is a problem of e/s.

• Performance of the queries of multiple virtual machines in a single call

  Hi all

  I'm a little rusty on what I used to do that, but that was almost a year ago...

  I'm trying to retrieve the performance data for several virtual machines.

  For now, I have this in serial mode, i.e. running QueryPerf on each virtual machine.

  The problem is that I have about 800 of them connected to one of my VC. Needless to say, this take a LOT of time to review all of the VM.

  Y at - it sort of method that will allow me to provide a picture of VM and application (performance counters) on all virtual machines, I guess that this will be faster than going and one by one.

  Thanks in advance!

  Hello

  QueryPerf method accepts an array of data object PerfQuerySpec. Here, each PerfQuerySpec object points to a managed entity for which the statistics are to recover.

  So in your scenario, before calling queryPerf, you can create PerfQuerySpec for each virtual machine, assign to each of them in PerfQuerySpec table. You can then pass this [of PerfQuerySpec] the call of queryPerf to retrieve statistics for all virtual machines.

  Hope that the information above solves your query.

  -Neha

• report for multiple virtual machines created

  I have a virtual machine creation script that I modified in order to be able to run in a loop using a CSV file to create more than one virtual machine at once. My original script send me an e-mail message for example:

  VM	IPaddress	CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT	Memory	ToolsVer	ToolStatus	Data store	Folder	ESXiHost
  MyVM	123.45.67.89	3	4096

  8384

  toolsOk

  myDS

  My-file
  

  myesxhost
  

  The problem that I want to try to figure out how can I get ALL the VM's on an e-mail report. Right now, because it's a loop, each VM I create will send a report. So if I put it up to build 4 vm, it will send 4 emails... I don't like it.

  How my script works pretty well...

  {foreach ($var in $vmlist)

  script here

  ...

  ...

  ...

  
  # Create and send emails report - Start #.
  #
  Function create HTMLTable {}
  Param([array]$array)
  $arrHTML = $Array | ConvertTo-Html
  $arrHTML [-1] is $arrHTML [-1]. ToString(). Replace ("< body / > < / html >", "")
  Return $arrHTML [5.2000]
  }

  $output = @)
  $output += ' < html > < head > < / head > < body table > < style > {border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; police-size: 8pt; background-color: #ccc; width: 100% ;}} Th {text-align: left ;}} TD {background-color: #fff; width: 20%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px ;}} Body {do-family: verdana; do-size: 12pt ;}} H1 {make-size: 12pt ;}} H2 {make-size: 10pt ;} < / style > '}
  $output += ' < H2 > the virtual machines created < / H2 > '
  $output += ' < H2 > < / H2 > '
  #$Report = @)
  $Report = New-Object - TypeName system.collections.arraylist
  foreach ($vm in get-vm-name $var.myvms)
  {
  ...

  ...

  ...

  ...

  ...
  $report.add ($reportedvm) | out-null
  

  }

  
  If ($HTML - eq 'Yes') {}
  $output += '< p > '.
  $output += '< p > '.
  $output += create HTMLTable $report $output += '< /p >.
  $output += ' < body / > < / html > "
  $output | Add a content-$FileHTML
  }
  If ($SendEmail - eq 'Yes') {}
  $body = get-Content $FileHTML | Out-string
  Send-MailMessage - to $EmailFrom - to $EmailTo - subject $EmailSubject - SmtpServer $EmailSMTP - body $body - BodyAsHtml}
  #

  }

  OK, I have to spend it at the moment, I can't work.

  Thank you

• Is no vmdk file, but the script says, all virtual machines backed up Ok!

  Hello everyone;

  Please excuse any lack of details because this is the first time that I write. I've scoured internet for days now trying to find no matter how much detail that could help me solve the problem. I'm new in the world of script ESXi and ghettoVCB.

  My intention is to run several tasks on a schedule. Each type of backup (quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily and multiple) runs at a specific time. The planning section works very well.

  I'm hoping to solve this urgent backup, I should be able to solve reboot.

  Here is the command I use:

  /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ghettoVCB.sh w /tmp/ghettoVCB-work.multiple f/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/vmlist-Multiple g/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/vmconfig-DataSet1-multiple-l /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ghettoVCB_logs/ghettoVCB.Multiple_Backup.log

  vmconfig-DataSet1-multiple contains:

  # Multiple backups - rotation County 6

  #

  VM_BACKUP_VOLUME = / vmfs/volumes/Vault2-DataSet1/URANUS/Multiple

  DISK_BACKUP_FORMAT = thin

  VM_BACKUP_ROTATION_COUNT = 6

  POWER_VM_DOWN_BEFORE_BACKUP = 0

  ENABLE_HARD_POWER_OFF = 0

  ITER_TO_WAIT_SHUTDOWN = 4

  POWER_DOWN_TIMEOUT = 5

  SNAPSHOT_TIMEOUT = 15

  ENABLE_COMPRESSION = 0

  VM_SNAPSHOT_MEMORY = 0

  VM_SNAPSHOT_QUIESCE = 0

  VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP =

  Vmlist-multiple contains 1 server is listed:

  # List all virtual machines that are backed up several times a day

  HEAT

  The log indicates that the backup was successful - but it has not been the case. Backup size should be approximately 8 GB. However, when you look at the output folder, only the following files are here:

  
  

  HEAT.vmx

  STATUS.ok

  Question is now - where are the vmdk files that should be present?

  Output (-d debug) can be found here: http://pastebin.com/hMGphTL3

  So, here is what I observed:

  When you run the script, the snapshot only takes a few seconds to create and delete then. I'm seeing happens on the list of the tasks of vSphere Rencent (screenshot attached).

  If I create a snapshot manually - it will take much more time to create and delete a snapshot. The difference here is 6 minutes, and 4 seconds using the script create a snapshot manually.

  So my presumption is that he is not actually create the snapshot, although vSphere said it is being created. So why is it the case?

  Help, please.

  ADDENDUM:

  If I run the following:

  ./ghettoVCB.sh m HEAT

  The backup is successful.

  Your said he clearly did not config file to back up all files hard.

  VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP =

  I expect to see something like this if you want all the hard files

  VMDK_FILES_TO_BACKUP = "all".

• The maximum for a virtual machine disk size

  Hello

  Can I create a disk to a virtual machine that is larger then 2 TB?

  On a physical box, you convert dynamic disks and their band... but I think VMware recommend snot of dynamic disks.

  Thanks in advance...

  Hello

  2 TB is the max and also the MAX for several operating systems. If for any reason any if you need then you will need to do a bunch of multiple VMDK.

  For more information about the maximum size please see: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003565

• Unalterable RCLI in U4, how do the backup for my virtual machine

  Hi, in the update of this week, my esxi U4 servers build 153875, but now have a problem, my script php to backup virtual machines do not work, orders rcli is unable to connect to the esxi Server

  Search error:

  root@backuplinux script# /usr/lib/vmware-viperl/apps/vm/vminfo.pl--serveur virtual7

  Enter the user name: root

  Enter the password:

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  You can take a look at ghettoVCB that use the console SSH not supported for download and execution of the backup script. You can also take a look at Veeam Backup If you are looking for a basic GUI solution, among others.

  =========================================================================

  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009

  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

  http://Twitter.com/lamw

• a simplistic way to change Mac for multiple virtual machines

  Hi all

  I was wondering, what is your perfered method to change MAC to a large number of virtual machines? I just cloned on 8 virtual machines to another host and VEEAM duplicated the MAC as well. So I need to change MAC 3 for each virtual computer and I got 8 of them to do so.

  I wonder if there is a quick and easy way to do this and then enter the settings?

  Thank you

  Davy

  Good afternoon

  Following the line to change the mac address of a virtual machine, preferably if VMs are turned off.

  Get - VM test | Get-NetworkAdapter-name "card1 network | Game-NetworkAdpater - MacAddress 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF - confirm: $false

• Change the host for a virtual machine on a cluster and the host is not in accordance with the attached profile

  Hi all

  I have 02 questions.

  1. we have a cluster which has 02 physical hosts (Host1 and Host2). We have 02 virtual machines on the Cluster. Active DRS on the cluster.

  But the problem is that my 02 VMS are always stays on a Host2. A few weeks ago, each virtual machine carried out on each host. How can I place each virtual machine on each host to perform better.

  How to do this?

  2. I connect to the cluster using vSphere client 5.1, under summer host, I get the following message

  "Configuration problems: host is not in accordance with the attached profile.

  I suspect that this is the case for my question 1?

  Thank you very much

  Hello

  I think I found the answer for the problem of home profile. I changed the following values to 1 for each host to > settings > under software > advanced settings >

  Under Data Mover

  HardwareAcceleratedInit

  HardwareAcceleratedMove
  

  
  

  Under VMFS3

  HardwareAcceleratedLocking

  Compliance status is returned to the green.

  Thanks for the advice guys!

  Thank you

• RDM mapping for multiple virtual machines

  Hi all,

  I created and associated with a 6 GB LUN me ESXi host 5.

  Now I need map that drive more then a VM under this host, I managed to add the first virtual machine disk (via 'change settings' > 'Add' > 'hard drive' > "raw device mapping"), but when I try to do the same thing to another virtual machine, I do not see the disk I used befor in the list "select target lun.

  So, is it possible to connect this same disk as raw device to VM, then one more?

  -Thanks!

  Depending on your configuration (Cluster-in-a-box, Cluster-across-boxes) you may need to configure the mode of virtual SCSI controller properly. Please take a look at http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-50-mscs-guide.pdf?lang=en for more details.

  André