Need a script allowing to "check and upgradetools during power cycling" on all the virtual machines

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  Since the CSV has a row for each data store, the values for the virtual machine are repeated.

  I also added the host name

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  the cluster the host is in

  The output I want is

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  any help would be appreciated

  Pretty sure this will do what you need:

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      }
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  If you only want to shared data warehouses you can then use

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  Hope this helps

• Script to change the name of the file to the virtual machine and its associated files

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• Avalibale features in the free ESXi version - auto start the virtual machine and scripts shoutdown?

  Hey all,.

  Evaluating 60A expired on my ESXi (5.0.0.623860) host which runs a couple of virtual machines. Virtual machines have been setup to autostart when the host said, but now the assessment is complete, the virtual machine no longer autostart.

  In addition, I ran a simple scipt using PowerCLI. This was shot issue a stop host command, which in turn stop the gracfully VMs, then stop the host: the script command were:

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  If I run these commands from the PowerCLI confirmation, I see the following error message:

  Stop-VMHost : 08/12/2012 17:01:52    Stop-VMHost        fault.RestrictedVersion
  .summary
  At line:1 char:12
  + Stop-VMHost <<<<  mysESXiHost -Confirm:$false -force
      + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Stop-VMHost], RestrictedVersi
     on
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  What I read, I thought that current same ESXi of execution in the free license must always let these things happen, or am I wrong?

  Chris

  There are two things to note:

  (1) the fault of . RestrictedVersion.summary details can be found here http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/06/dreaded-faultrestrictedversionsummary.html

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  For reasons of performance test, we use a pool of resources with maximum rates for RAM and CPU.  Each virtual machine in the pool has a reservation for CPU and RAM.  Test automation will try to start VMs as much as possible in the pool during the test.  The CLI will return an error when you start the virtual machine may exceed the amount of allowed resources.  When this happens, an error on the console vSphere "insufficient resources".  Instead of constantly from the virtual machine, fault and generates error - is there a way to check to see if there is enough space?

  Thank you

  Jason

  Hi Jason,

  You can try if the following PowerCLI function is what you need. The function does not resemble stretch bookings.

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  Hello

  I checked a few posts on this forum on how to create the virtual machine through vmcreate.pl, but responses was not so clear to me...

  These are the topics I've read:

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  In the topic = > VM create instance on Cluster I did not quite get, what I need to change...

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  Result:

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  SOAP fault:

  -----------

  Error string: InvalidArgument

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  blah < Home > < / Host >

  blah < Center > < / Center >

  > Guest Id < Linioch < / comment-Id >

  blah < Datastore > < / Datastore >

  < > 2048 Disksize < / Disksize >

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  Michal

  Thanks to xyz222 for the user and post Re: instance of VM to create the Cluster

  I was able at the end of the problem. So simple... The value of the in the xml file should be for example "rhel6_64Guest" and not a random word... that's all!

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• I forgot the password of Windows 8, try to re - format the PC and no access to Windows XP on a virtual machine.

  Original title: need to reformat windows 8 and windows xp

  Hello

  2 questions here:

  1. my problem is that I have a PC under Windows 8, but I forgot the password, I can not connect using the admin account too. So, reformat my PC is the only solution?

  2. If I need to reformat the PC, the virtual machine (Windows XP) my colleague who installed in this PC will be too lost and product key has been purchased via online and now I don't know where to find the product key now. :( . How can I do to get the product key because I can not even access the pc host (Windows 8)?

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  1. you are using a third-party virtual machine?

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