Optimal code to retrieve all the virtual machines in a ResourcePool

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• Lists the names of all the virtual machines

  I want to display a list for the name of all the virtual machines.

  Get - VM export to much information, how to filter the info I need?

  With the Select-Object cmdlet, like this

  Get - VM | Select name

  The Get - VM product objects that you pass through the pipeline ('|) ') to the Select-Object cmdlet.

  The Select-Object cmdlet allows you to select one or more of the properties of the objects it receives.

• script to remove all the virtual machines in a folder or a group resource

  Someone at - it a script that will find all the virtual machines within a file or a group of resources and then delete the virtual machines?

  If you're dealing with a specific resource pool or a folder, you can use these.

  $vmlist = get-folder -name "TEST2"  | get-vm
  $vmlist = get-resourcepool -name TestServers | get-vm
  

  And then send it to something like this

  $vmlist | ForEach {
       If ($_.PowerState  -eq "PoweredOn")
            {
            Stop-VM -VM $_.Name -Confirm:$False
            }
       Remove-VM -VM $_.Name -Confirm:$False      }
  

  Also to find files of type VM

  get-folder -name | where {$_.IsChildTypeVM -eq "True"}
  

  Do you need to search the children files or resource pools as well?

  Dave

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• Utility to display all the virtual machines that have ISO attached to CD

  Someone at - it a utility that will list all the virtual machines on a host or a cluster, indicating the State of the virtual CD drive?  I am trying to remove one of my nfs stores, and of course, he's busy.  It's a real pain to point and click through all the virtual machines to find one or two that have a CD with ISO attached.

  Obviously, free is better!

  Thanks for your suggestions,

  Doug

  Hello.

  Discover RVTools.

  Good luck!

• I can run all the virtual machines (created with workstation) in VMWare player?

  Suppose I created a virtual machine in a Vmware Workstation 7.1 installation.

  Can I take all of this a virtual machine and run it on a VMware player installation?

  Or Vmware Workstation offers specific features that are required by the virtual machine to run successfully?

  Matt

  If,

  If you are using vmware player 3.x, you should have no problem.

  Do not forget that the workstation and vmware player share much of its architecture.

  Best wishes / Saludos.
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• Virtual Center stops all the virtual machines in a cluster HA

  Hello.

  I have a question about vCenter machine. We have deployed

  VMware ESX 4.0 HA cluster on Server Blade IBM 3. VCenter machine resides

  on a virtual machine on the same cluster. When we tried to recharge a physical switch (in the)

  IBM Blade Center), all our virtual machines on the cluster have been turned off automatically.

  If the vCenter VM is turned off, then everything is fine - the reloading of the

  Switch is not turning off the virtual machines (and the net is ok - start machines

  work through another switch in IBM bladecenter). If the machine vCenter

  powers (manually), all the other machines, which have been put off, are powered

  on too (automatically, of course, with the help of the machine of vCenter). How

  is that what I can adjust the machine vCenter, so it could not power power machines by

  itself automatically?

  ESX 4.0 (162856)

  Hello

  Right-click in your cluster, change the settings. Select 'Virtual Machine Options' under 'Vmware HA' and choose the host response of insulation desired for the entire cluster or individual VM. If you do not have network connections redundant between your ESX machines, you probably want the virtual machine for when you need to do maintenance or your network switch died. You should probably also disable HA while doing maintenance. You should consider to build network redundancy in the case of a production environment.

  I hope that helps!

• Need a script to the list of all the virtual machines in CSV

  I want to record a list of virtual machines from one host in a csv file so that I can add to their return with

  New-VM - VMFilePath $VMXFile - $vmhost $ESXHost - $VMFolder location

  I started with that, but am struggling with the name of the folder of the virtual machine (can be used in New-VM-map)

  Get-VIServer-Server MyServer - protocol https-Force | out-null

  $report = @)

  Get - VM | Get-View | %{

  $row = "" | Select Name, VmPathName, location

  $row. Name = $_. Name

  $row. VmPathName = $_. Config.Files.VmPathName

  # $row. Location = $_. Folder # faced with this line

  $report += $row

  }

  $report

  # How to make this online, don't invite not not the user?

  Disconnect-VIServer-Server MyServer - Force

  Try this, it should give the blue files

  New-VIProperty -Name 'BlueFolderPath' -ObjectType 'VirtualMachine' -Value {    param($vm)
  
      function Get-ParentName {        param($object)
  
          if($object.Folder) {            $blue = Get-ParentName $object.Folder            $name = $object.Folder.Name        }        elseif($object.Parent -and $object.Parent.GetType().Name -like "Folder*") {            $blue = Get-ParentName $object.Parent            $name = $object.Parent.Name        }        elseif($object.ParentFolder){            $blue = Get-ParentName $object.ParentFolder            $name = $object.ParentFolder.Name        }        if("vm","Datacenters" -notcontains $name) {            $blue + "/" + $name        }        else{            $blue        }    }
  
      (Get-ParentName $vm).Remove(0,1)} -Force | Out-Null
  
  Connect-VIServer -Server MyServer -Protocol https -Force | out-null
  
  $report = @()Get-VM  | %{  $row = "" | select Name, VmPathName, Location  $row.Name = $_.Name  $row.VmPathName = $_.ExtensionData.Config.Files.VmPathName  $row.Location = $_.BlueFolderPath  $report += $row}$report
  
  Disconnect-VIServer -Server MyServer -Confirm:$false
  

• Is it possible to recover all the virtual machines in a cluster in a single web service call?

  I tried to retrieve the list of all virtual machines in a cluster to a single web service call, but to no avail. It seems that there is no direct web service API to achieve this goal. Alternative options must first recover the hosts or data warehouses in the cluster and then recover virtual machines from there. But still, if anyone has an idea how we can do this please let me know. All help information will be greatly appreciated.

  It is possible, if you use the PropertyCollector.

  (It is usually the answer to questions of the form "Is it possible to retrieve the X in a single web service call").

  Call"propertycollector.retrievecontents:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/developer/VC-SDK/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/vmodl.query.PropertyCollector.html#retrieveContents

  allows you to retrieve a whole bunch of stuff in a single call, which you then have to go through and interpret.

  A snippet of code Java VI is not-really-tested to find virtual machines in a ComputeResource (cluster) is attached.

• Orchestrator 5.1 REPORT-all the virtual machines in the data center and create a CSV file

  Hello

  What I basically want to do is create a report CSV of all virtual machines in the data center with various information (VMname, domain name FULL, IPaddress, status, data warehouses, tools etc...).  The export list in the client feature is insufficient (especially for any KPI report).

  Problem: (workflow is still under construction so real email send does not not and need to clean the code)

  I am stuck at the part of the creation of a table that can be parsed correctly in the CSV file.  2 ways I've tried will produce a report of single object or combine all of the table into a single string (where I am now).  I think the main problem I have is that I have to create a 2D within my service to push toward the final table that is written to the CSV format.  Basically, I do not understand how to push my variables in a loop of a table.

  Any help or assistance?

  Thank you

  B

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  Added some comments, removed the hardcoded in the csv temp file, deleted path the hardcoded port 25 for SMTP - mail settings should come from the configuration of the MAIL plug-in. And fixed / confirmed that the workflow now includes the attachment for e-mail and ends with success!

• walk through all the virtual machines and to show whether or not advanced setting is present

  Hello

  I want to get a list of all virtual machines that shows configuration options and it is value. AND if there is a virtual machine without that I'd like to see these too the configuration.

  Get-VM-name * | Get-AdvancedSetting | where {$_.} Name - eq "monitor_control.enable_softResetClearTSC"} |  Select the entity, Name, Value

  The one-liner above works fairly well, but only shows machines that have this configuration in the vmx file. But I miss not configured virtual machines.

  How do I get them in the list too?

  Regards Wolfgang

  Omit the Where clause, something like this

  Get - VM |

  Select Name,

  @{N = 'monitor_control.enable_softResetClearTSC'; E = {}

  Get-AdvancedSetting - entity $_ - name monitor_control.enable_softResetClearTSC | Select value - ExpandProperty}}

• List of the types of all the virtual machines network cards

  How can I view maps of different types of all VMs in a row, without taking change them the settings for each virtual machine.

  Aneesh

  Hello

  It is possible via power cli...

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/2013514

  Thank you

  SA

• The list of all the virtual machines of an organization

  Hi all

  I use .net api for vcloud. I need the list of all virtual machines of an organization. How I do that?

  Kamal

  Hello

  A paralytic can contain several virtual machines. Once, you get the use of vApp, the GetChildrenVms() for the confined list of the VM.

  VAPP vapp = Vapp.GetVappByReference (customer, vAppRef);

  foreach (VAPP vm in VAPP. {GetChildrenVms()})

  Console.WriteLine ("" + vm.) Reference.Name);

  Console.WriteLine ("" + vm.) Reference.href);

  }

  Creating a paralyzed man from a vAppTemplate will contain the same number of VM contained in a vAppTempalte.

  If the vAppTemplate contains 3 VM inside. VApp created using the vAppTempalte would also contain the same 3 VM.

  Ex: If the Ex vAppTempalte: WebApplication-vAppTemplate contains a DatabaseVM and AppServerVM.

  VApp created from the Ex vAppTemplate: WebApplication-VAPP will also contain a DatabaseVM and AppServerVM.

  Kind regards

  Rajesh Kamal.

• Basic commands to identify all the virtual machines with connected CDROMS

  Hi all

  
  I am totally new to PowerCLI but need to identity the easiest and the shortest way for me to list all virtual machines in my vCenter server that currently have an attached CDdrive.

  
  I if I would be able to do this with get - vm | Get-CDDrive but no results are displayed.

  I've seen many examples on the web page of the way people want to disconnect all drives in a single shot, but initially, I want only to identify them for a report.

  Can this be achieved in one line?

  
  Thank you

  Try something like this

  Get - VM | where {$_.cddrives} | Select Name, @{N = ' connected'; E = {(get-CDDrive-VM $_).} ConnectionState}}

  or if you only want to see who is connected, you could do that

  Get - VM | where {$_.cddrives} | Select Name, @{N = ' connected'; E = {(get-CDDrive-VM $_).} ConnectionState.Connected}} | where {$_.} Connected}

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

  What is the best method to enable this option on all virtual machines? Y at - it a good way to do it without another modification of the VMX files on all machines, or be manually change settings?

  Would I do that

  $vmConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools = New-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo
  $vmConfigSpec.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = "UpgradeAtPowerCycle"
  
  Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | %{
     $_.ReconfigVM($vmConfigSpec)
  }
  

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• Rename all the virtual machine files in the data store

  Hello

  We have renamed one of the name of the server of our virtual machine running on esx3.5. In addition, we have renamed this server in VC to reflect the new name of the server. Please tell us how we can rename all files in this virtual machine residing in the data store to reflect the new name of the server.

  Appreciate your quick response.

  Thanks in advance...

  You can use sVMotion and move it to another data store or migrate from cold.  Two tasks will rename the underlying set of files.