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• PowerCLI script start vm and check the boot

  Hello

  I try to do a powercli script to start the virtual machine and check when the (windows) operating system is completely open and ready.

  How can I do?

  Maybe this helps...

  Start-VM - VM - runAsync

  $vm = get - vm

  Start-Sleep - seconds 20;

  $vm | Get-VMQuestion | Game-VMQuestion - version - confirm: $false;

  do

  {

  Start-Sleep - seconds 5;

  $toolsStatus = $vm.extensionData.Guest.ToolsStatus;

  } While ($toolsStatus - not "toolsOK");

• Change the PowerCLI Script to use the DRS and DRS storage

  Hello

  I have a PowerCLI script that specifies a host and a data store to create a new virtual machine, which has served us well. Now we have activated the DRS and DRS storage and I wonder what to change in order to take advantage of these features. Are there commands to specify a cluster and the cluster data store and let the DRS to decide the initial investment for a new virtual machine? At the moment we put all hosts and the warehouses of data as variables and use them in the line below.

  Thank you.

  $newVM = New-VM-name $NewVMname - VM $TemplateName Datastore - $datastore - VMHost $vHost - confirm: $false - location $myName

  You set a Datastorecluster?

  If Yes, then you can replace the value of parameter data with the datastorecluster object store.

  Replacing a VMHost with a cluster is not taken in charge I'm afraid.

  But you can use something like this

  New-VM-name TestVM Datastore - DSC - ResourcePool (Get-Cluster-name mycluster |) Get - Resourcepool - name of resources)

  This will automatically select the VMHost.

  The virtual machine appears in the root of the cluster.

  DSC is the name of a datastorecluster in the cluster mycluster

• Need a powercli script to create a new account a local administrator on all ESX and ESXi hosts in the vcenter

  Hi all

  If someone can help me with a powercli script to create a new account a local administrator on all ESX and ESXi hosts in the vcenter, create a role called admin and give all access except the root. This shoulb be past by a virtual centre.

  Very much appreciated to help him.

  Kind regards

  MelLvin

  I suspect that you posted your question to the wrong thread

  This requires only a minor change to the script above actually.

  Something like that

  $groupName = "group"$accountName = "user"$accountPswd = "password"$accountDescription = "A user"
  
  $esxlist = Get-VMHostforeach($esx in $esxlist){    Connect-VIServer -Server $esx -User root -Password "password"
  
      Try {      Get-VMHostAccount -Id $groupName -Group -ErrorAction Stop | Out-Null    }    Catch {      New-VMHostAccount -Id $groupName -GroupAccount | Out-Null    }
  
      $rootFolder = Get-Folder -Name ha-folder-root    Try{        $account = Get-VMHostAccount -Id $accountName -ErrorAction Stop |        Set-VMHostAccount -Password $accountPswd -Description $accountDescription -AssignGroups $groupName    }    Catch{        $account = New-VMHostAccount -Id $accountName -Password $accountPswd -Description $accountDescription -UserAccount -GrantShellAccess -AssignGroups $groupName    }
  
      $rootFolder = Get-Folder -Name ha-folder-root    New-VIPermission -Entity $rootFolder -Principal $account -Role admin
  
      Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$false}
  

• PowerCLI Script to migrate virtual machines with the same network Source for the new vCenter Server.

  Hi all

  I checked a few posts on the migration to the new vCenter Server virtual machine. But I'm not very good with Powercli and need some help here.

  We have a new vCenter server where we migrate virtual machines from one source vCenter server. Here are two things that I don't know how to connect together to make sure that bwfore we turn on the virtual machine to the virtual machine is connected to its source network.

  Part 1 - this script works well but do not get any network on the vCenter destination.

  cluster = Get-Cluster "clusterA.

  $inventory = get-Cluster $cluster | Get - VM | Add-Member - MemberType ScriptProperty-name "VMXPath" - value {$this.extensiondata.config.files.vmpathname}-Passthru-Force | Select-Object Name ResourcePool, folder, VMXPath |

  $inventory | Export-Csv c:\file.csv

  $inventory = import-csv c:\file.csv

  $cluster = get-group 'b '.

  {foreach ($vm to $inventory)

  $ESXHost = get-Cluster $cluster | Get-VMHost | Select - 1 first

  New-VM - VMFilePath $vm. VMXPath - VMHost $ESXHost - location $vm. Folder - ResourcePool (Get-Cluster $cluster |) Get-ResourcePool $vm. ResourcePool)

  }

  Part 2 - I want to preserve the Portgroup macaddress and the Ip of the virtual computers and connect them to the new vCenter. How can I do this with the script below. Or how can I combine them together?

  $vm_list = get-Cluster-name "clustera | Get - VM test * | Name sort

  $information = {foreach ($vm to $vm_list)

  $network_adapter_information = get-NetworkAdapter - VM $vm

  $vm | Select Name,PowerState,ResourcePool,@{N="Path; E=       {$_. ExtensionData.Summary.Config.VmPathName}},@{N="NetworkAdapter '; E = {[string]: join (":", ($network_adapter_information |))} %{$_. {{(Nom + "," + _.NetworkName $}))}}, @{N = "MacAddress"; E = {[string]: join (",", ($network_adapter_information | % {$_.}))} MacAddress}))}}

  }

  Step 2

  # Unsubscribe virtual machines

  Remove-VM - VM $vm_list-RunAsync Verbose - confirm: $false

  Step 3

  $cluster = get-group 'b '.

  {foreach ($vm to $inventory)

  $ESXHost = get-Cluster $cluster | Get-VMHost | Select - 1 first

  New-VM - VMFilePath $vm. VMXPath - VMHost $ESXHost - location $vm. Folder - ResourcePool (Get-Cluster $cluster |) Get-ResourcePool $vm. ResourcePool)

  }

  # Save virtual machines

  foreach ($info in $information)

  {

  $vmxpath = $info. Path

  $resource_pool = $info. ResourcePool.Name

  New-VM - ResourcePool (ResourcePool-Get-name $resource_pool) VMFilePath - $vmxpath - RunAsync-Verbose | Out-Null

  }

  Step 4

  # Put the network cards

  foreach ($info in $inventory)

  {

  foreach ($network_information in ($info.NetworkAdapter - split ":"))))

  {

  $virtual_machine = $info | %{$_. Name}

  $network_adapter = ($network_information-split ",") [0]

  $network_vlan = ($network_information-split ",") [1]

  Get-VM-name $virtual_machine | Get-NetworkAdapter-name $network_adapter | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName $network_vlan-Verbose-RunAsync-confirm: $false | Out-Null

  }

  }

  # Start the virtual machines

  foreach ($vm to $vm_list)

  {

  Start-VM - VM $vm. Name-RunAsync Verbose - confirm: $false | Out-Null}

  }

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  Hi all

  I made some changes to the script and it worked for me. We have added a host on the destination with all exchanges and storage mapped vCenter.

  $vm_list = get-Cluster-name 'Site B - b | Get - VM | Name sort

  $information = {foreach ($vm to $vm_list)

  $network_adapter_information = get-NetworkAdapter - VM $vm

  $vm | Select Name,PowerState,ResourcePool,@{N="Path; E=       {$_. ExtensionData.Summary.Config.VmPathName}},@{N="NetworkAdapter '; E = {[string]: join (":", ($network_adapter_information |))} %{$_. {{(Nom + "," + _.NetworkName $}))}}, @{N = "MacAddress"; E = {[string]: join (",", ($network_adapter_information | % {$_.}))} MacAddress}))}}

  }

  # Unsubscribe virtual machines

  Remove-VM - VM $vm_list-Verbose - confirm: $false

  $cluster = get-Cluster "Site A - clustera.

  {foreach ($vm to $information)

  $ESXHost = get-Cluster $cluster | Get-VMHost | Select - 1 first

  New-VM - VMFilePath $vm.path - VMHost $ESXHost - location $vm. Folder - ResourcePool (Get-Cluster $cluster |) Get-ResourcePool $vm. ResourcePool)

  }

  # Save virtual machines

  foreach ($info in $information)

  {

  $vmxpath = $info. Path

  $resource_pool = $info. ResourcePool

  New-VM - ResourcePool (ResourcePool-Get-name "test1") VMFilePath - $vmxpath - RunAsync-Verbose | Out-Null

  }

  # Put the network cards

  .

  foreach ($info in $information)

  {

  foreach ($network_information in ($info.NetworkAdapter - split ":"))))

  {

  $virtual_machine = $info | %{$_. Name}

  $network_adapter = ($network_information-split ",") [0]

  $network_vlan = ($network_information-split ",") [1]

  Get-VM-name $virtual_machine | Get-NetworkAdapter-name $network_adapter | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName $network_vlan-Verbose - confirm: $false | Out-Null

  }

  }

  # Start the virtual machines

  foreach ($vm to $vm_list)

  {

  Start-VM - VM $vm. Name-RunAsync Verbose - confirm: $false | Out-Null

  }

  Hope this will help many of you.

• Can write us "PowerCLI Script" to get the details of card RAID HP (Firmware & Driver)?

  Can write us "PowerCLI Script" to get the details of card RAID HP (Firmware & Driver)

  For example: native ESX command below shows desired output for me.

  But we needed equality PowerCLI ESX command below script

  # cat/proc/driver/cciss/cciss0

  cciss0: HP Smart Array P400i controller

  Board ID: 0x3235103c

  Firmware version: 7.22# cat/proc/driver/hpsa/hpsa0

  hpsa0: HP Smart Array P410i controller

  Board ID: 0x3245103c

  Firmware version: 5,70

  Driver version: HP HPSA driver (v 5.0.0 - 17vmw)

  The extracted following PowerCLI you will get server and type of controller, firmware version and the hpsa/Smart Storage Array controllers driver version based of:

  Get-VMhost | Sort | Select Name, Model,@{N='Controller Type'; E={(Get-VMHostHba -VMHost $_ | ? {$_.Model -imatch '.*(hpsa|smart).*'}).Model}},@{N='Controller Firmware'; E={($_.ExtensionData.Runtime.HealthSystemRuntime.SystemHealthInfo.NumericSensorInfo | ? {$_.Name -like '*hpsa*firmware*'}).Name}},@{N='hpsa Driver Version'; E={($_.ExtensionData.Runtime.HealthSystemRuntime.SystemHealthInfo.NumericSensorInfo | ? {$_.Name -like '*scsi-hpsa*'}).Name}} | Format-Table -Autosize
  

  The sample output:

  
  Name                     Model                Controller Type   Controller Firmware                           hpsa Driver Version----                     -----                ---------------   -------------------                           -------------------esxihost1022.local    ProLiant DL380 G6    Smart Array P410i    HP Smart Array Controller HPSA1 Firmware 6.40    Hewlett-Packard scsi-hpsa 5.0.0.60-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 2014-05-15 15:32:23.000esxihost1023.local    ProLiant DL380 G6    Smart Array P410i    HP Smart Array Controller HPSA1 Firmware 6.40    Hewlett-Packard scsi-hpsa 5.0.0.60-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 2014-05-15 15:32:23.000esxihost1024.local    ProLiant DL380 G6    Smart Array P410i    HP Smart Array Controller HPSA1 Firmware 6.40    Hewlett-Packard scsi-hpsa 5.0.0.60-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 2014-05-15 15:32:23.000esxihost1033.local    ProLiant DL360p Gen8    Smart Array P420i    HP Smart Array Controller HPSA1 Firmware 5.42    Hewlett-Packard scsi-hpsa 5.0.0.60-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 2014-05-15 15:32:23.000esxihost1034.local    ProLiant DL360p Gen8    Smart Array P420i    HP Smart Array Controller HPSA1 Firmware 5.42    Hewlett-Packard scsi-hpsa 5.0.0.60-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 2014-05-15 15:32:23.000esxihost1041.local    ProLiant DL380 G5    Smart Array P400    HP Smart Array Controller HPSA1 Firmware 7.24    VMware scsi-hpsa 5.0.0-17vmw.500.0.0.469512 2011-08-19 01:58:59.000esxihost1042.local    ProLiant DL380 G5    Smart Array P400    HP Smart Array Controller HPSA1 Firmware 7.24    VMware scsi-hpsa 5.0.0-17vmw.500.0.0.469512 2011-08-19 01:58:59.000esxihost1160.local    ProLiant BL460c Gen8    Smart Array P220i    HP Smart Array Controller HPSA1 Firmware 5.22    Hewlett-Packard scsi-hpsa 5.0.0-40OEM.500.0.0.472560 2012-08-24 21:04:51.000esxihost1161.local    ProLiant BL460c Gen8    Smart Array P220i    HP Smart Array Controller HPSA1 Firmware 5.22    Hewlett-Packard scsi-hpsa 5.0.0-40OEM.500.0.0.472560 2012-08-24 21:04:51.000
  

• Export and storage of CSV file details HBA device

  Hi all

  I need help in two PowerCLI scripting that can export information specific to the CSV files.

  In the first report, I want to get out of HBA information in the fields "Name", "Identifier", "LUN" and "capabilities".

  as seen in the screenshot just below.

  

  In the second report, I would like to get storage information for the fields 'Identification', 'Device', and 'ability '.

  as seen in the screenshot just below.

  

  I am a newbie to Powershell and PowerCLI and have searched the threads and found a few scripts that provide similar information

  but not exactly what I need.  In my attempts to learn through "reverse engineering" everything I did was to hack the scripts and fail. =(

  I use the following PowerCLI version.
  ----------------
  VMware vSphere PowerCLI 4.1 build 332441 U1
  ---------------
  Versions of the snap
  ---------------
  VMWare vSphere PowerCLI 4.1 build 332441 U1

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  OK, try this for the 1st report

  &{foreach($esx in Get-VMHost){
          foreach($hba in (Get-VMHostHba -VMHost $esx -Type FibreChannel | where {$_.Status -eq "online"})){
              Get-ScsiLun -Hba $hba |
              Select @{N="VMHost";E={$esx.Name}},
              @{N="HBA";E={$hba.Device}},
              @{N="DisplayName";E={$_.ExtensionData.DisplayName}},
              @{N="Identifier";E={$_.CanonicalName}},
              @{N="LUN";E={(Select-String ":L(?\d+)$" -InputObject $_.RuntimeName).Matches[0].Groups['lunID'].Value}},
              @{N="Capacity";E={"{0:f2}" -f ($_.CapacityMB/1KB)}}
          }
      }
  } | Export-Csv C:\hba-report.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

• The package PowerCLI script in the Windows executable file / install

  What are the options for packaging / embed PowerCLI script in Windows. EXE file? I would like for several departments to be able to run and collect information from the script without having direct access to the code. This would ensure that the code has been correctly run without modification.

  I know that PowerCLI will be available on these systems, searching for the PowerCLI is not necessary.

  I read that the Primal Script has this ability, but I want a solution that is free and easy to use, if possible.

  If it is not an executable file, maybe even a file coded which makes it difficult for a layman to make changes.

  Thanks in advance for the help!

  I used a similar function of Johan Akerstrom in the past (since I don't have the community installed Extensions).

  See his post Powershell script to generate an executable from a powershell script .

  For this one, I know there is no problem with parameter passing.

  Take this example script

  param(
  [parameter(Mandatory = $true)][string[]]$server)
  
  [void][system.reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
  Add-PSSnapin -Name VMware.VimAutomation.Core
  
  Connect-VIServer -Server $server[windows.forms.messagebox]::Show("Connected to " + $defaultViServer.Name)
  $VM = Get-VM[windows.forms.messagebox]::Show("I counted " + $VM.Count + " guests")
  
  Disconnect-VIServer -Confirm:$false
  

  Note that the script uses Windows Forms to the output data.

  You create the EXE file as follows. I recorded the example script under DoExeTest.ps1

  PS C:\Scripts >.\DoExeTest.ps1 new-PSExecutable
  Script source file: C:\Scripts\DoExeTest.ps1
  Output executable: C:\Scripts\doexetest.exe

  And when you run this, it displays 2 message boxes, one with the name of the vCenter and the other with the number of guests, the script is located in the vCenter.

  C:\Scripts>doexetest.exe 'Site '.

                

• A Script to find and replace the layer names

  Is there scripts to find and replace the names of layers?

  There is an excellent script available for Photoshop that allows you not only to replace words in layer names, but also insert words as prefixes, Suffixes and sequential numbers.

  The version of the illustrator of this script allows only sequential numbering: it does not offer search and replace words.

  Ideally, it would be great if there were something that could find multiple and replaces in a go:

  (for example

  You have layers like this car, the dog, the bat

  You enter: because (Option1), dog (Option2), Bat (Option3)

  Your layers become then: option 1, option 2, Option3).

  )

  Big_SmiLe, which is a very good start! Step 1 of learning how to Script is indeed, by adjusting an existing simple script to make things more complicated. (And usually then "break something", which is also a necessary part of the process.)

  You are right your comment, it comes to repetitive things. For one or two different articles that wouldn't be a problem, but in the longer lists you are soon lost.

  As usual to work with lists of search - replace is to build a table:

  var layernames = [
  [ 'FHairBowlBoy *Hair', 'Hairboy1' ],
  [ 'FHairCurlyafroBoy *Hair', 'Hairboy2' ],
  [ 'FHairSpikyBoy *Hair', 'Hairboy3' ],
  ];
  

  The general idea is to loop through all the names, check if the current layer name is "layernames [i] [0]" (the left column) and if so, rename it "layernames [i] [1]" (the right column). If you know how to write a loop in Javascript, then you can implement this immediately.

  However...

  A more advanced method to do this didn't need even loop on all layernames - instead you can immediately 'get' the correct name by layer! It's magic! Almost!

  The trick is to use a Javascript object rather than a table. JavaScript objects are nothing special; "Layers" of Illustrator are an array of objects, and each object 'sex' has a 'name' property, which you can read and set the value. What I do here, is to create a new object, where the part 'name' is the name of the original layer and its value is the name of the new layer. All you need to check each layer is if there is a "object.originalLayerName" property and if so, assign its value to this layer name.

  It looks a bit like the table above, except that (1) you use {.} instead of [..] to create an object and (2) you add pairs "name: value" instead of 'value' only (in fact, the 'name' of a value in a table is simply her number).

  So here's what it looks like:

  // JavaScript Document
  var doc = app.activeDocument;
  // name indexed object
  var layernames = {
   'FHairBowlBoy *Hair':'Hairboy1',
   'FHairCurlyafroBoy *Hair':'Hairboy2',
   'FHairSpikyBoy *Hair':'Hairboy3'
  };
  // loop through all layers
  for (var i = 0; i < doc.layers.length; i++)
  {
   //Set up Variable to access layer name
   var currentLayer = app.activeDocument.layers[i];
   if (layernames[currentLayer.name])
   {
    currentLayer.name = layernames[currentLayer.name];
   }
  }
  

  Enjoy!

• What programs are getting extract comments and keywords and put them in the labels and captions in Picasa?

  What free programs I would like to extract comments and key words and put them into computer-based labels and legends Picasa? Is this possible with MSVB 2008 or 2010 Express? I'm not a real programmer, but I can hack a bit (in the old sense of the 1980s the word hack). I tried searching internet but no combination of the words comment, tag, keyword, and legend get something usable. Too common words, everything matches. BTW, I use XP, cannot afford to Windows Vista SE (that's my name for 7)

  What I want to do is to add tags and comments to the photos that I am scanning. It is a long-term project to archive all the family of the peaks. Some dating back to 1900 photo of great great grandparents. The key here is long-term. I thought that the properties/summary/comments (and keywords) would be likely to be on board for many years (legacy stuff). Jac I can't find any program that uses or leans on them today! And I just saw a pic of the Win7 properties and guess what? No summary! Picassa is quite widely used but who knows. Nothing is stable for a long time. Can not even get to diskettes and CDs and cassettes now become more difficult to find. And DVDs are on the side too. How can I put the photos on the long term and accessible storage?

  My plan is to use Picassa and .jpg. I'll put a copy of Picassa on every DVD that I use (in data mode). I'll do a mode DVD video slide show as a backup. The disks are pretty cheap even for me. I will not use double layer, but too unreliable. And I intend to check them every few years for readability. I have a few CD that can be read even with 12 years older data recovery programs.

  So if anyone has any comments, suggestions or additions, let it go. I think that it is indeed an important subject, keeping old data accessible.

  Hello

  You can post the issue here for more information:

  https://groups.Google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/Forum/#! categories/picasa/picasa-for-windows

• Comments and highlights lost after formatting computer

  Hello

  So, I formatted my computer and re-installed the operating system and all of my comments and highlights that I have spend ages adding to PDF documents now seem to be lost. It is very unfortunate. In hindsight it was perhaps naïve to think that all these additions when connected to the individual pdf and thus would be preserved in the process. In any case, I would like to know how to avoid the same mistake in the future. IE: where are all these comments and highlights stored and can choose this storage location myself (i.e. who move to in my dropbox to save all the changes you made).

  See you soon

  Jakob

  You cannot edit a file that is on Dropbox directly, though (unless it's on your local Dropbox folder). When you open it, it will download to a temporary file, you might have to manually download them later to update the version that is on the server.

  To check if the file contains comments to open and then go to the comments on the right panel and check the list of numbers comments.

  Make sure that the filter is set to show all reviews:

  

  Is it is and it always shows the number of comments than zero, then they are simply not there.

• Collection for the PowerCLI scripting requirements

  Someone at - it a good model that helps you organize information, gathering process when you go to the management or to a customer to get for scripts and automation requirements that they want to do?  Y at - it a Web page or a book that puts this kind of thing in a structured methodology or at least one practical how to guide?

  For example, what kinds of questions should I go to make sure that I understand any of my script is supposed to do and help the management or the customer understand what THEY want to do, and get a consensus agreement on the functional requirements for my powerCLI script?

  Your suggestions of entry, welcome masters strategies.

  This question is not really unique for PowerCLI scripting, but all scripts/programs, to write (for yourself or for a customer |).

  And of course, there are always the classic answer "it depends".

  If it is a small task that you write yourself, the requirements are pretty obvious.

  Most of the time, you have the requirements in your head, but it does not have to write in schematic form.

  When you write for a customer, by definition be more formal (I guess).

  An article I like, is the Introduction to gather our creative use cases and requirements published in the Code review.

  Take a look.

• County of vMotion and Storage vMotion over the last 24 hours

  I am under the below a line to count the number of vMotion and Storage vMotion, which happened in the past 24 hours in the middle and it not give me the required result, but when I combine them in the script that I use to collect additional information, it's just returns 0 (zero) as the County.

  Rely on Storage vMotion and vMotion

  Get-VIEvent - MaxSamples ([int]: MaxValue)-start (Get-Date). AddDays(-1) |

  Where {$_.} GetType(). {Name - eq "TaskEvent" - and $_.Info.DescriptionId - eq "VirtualMachine.relocate" - or $_.Info.DescriptionId - eq "StorageResourceManager.applyRecommendation"} |

  Measure-object | Select-Object - ExpandProperty County

  Get-VIEvent - MaxSamples ([int]: MaxValue)-start (Get-Date). AddDays(-1) |

  Where {$_.} GetType(). {Name - eq "TaskEvent" - and $_.Info.DescriptionId - eq "VirtualMachine.migrate"} |

  Measure-object | Select-Object - ExpandProperty County

  Combined script

  Get-Cluster |

  {ForEach-Object

  $Cluster = $_

  $VMHost = $Cluster | Get-VMHost

  $CpuUsageMhz = $VMHost | Measure-object-property CpuUsageMhz-sum | Select-Object - ExpandProperty sum

  $CpuTotalMhz = $VMHost | Measure-object-property CpuTotalMhz-sum | Select-Object - ExpandProperty sum

  $MemoryUsageGB = $VMHost | Measure-object-property MemoryUsageGB-sum | Select-Object - ExpandProperty sum

  $MemoryTotalGB = $VMHost | Measure-object-property MemoryTotalGB-sum | Select-Object - ExpandProperty sum

  $Cluster | Select-Object - property @{Name = "ClusterName"; Expression = {$_.} Name}},

  @{Name = 'vSphere HA'; Expression = {$_.} HAEnabled}},

  @{Name = 'Analysis HA-Host'; Expression = {$_.} ExtensionData.Configuration.DasConfig.HostMonitoring}},

  @{Name = 'HA-Failover capacity'; Expression = {$_.} ExtensionData.Summary.CurrentFailoverLevel}},

  @{Name = 'HA-Admission Control'; Expression = {$_.} HAAdmissionControlEnabled}},

  @{Name = 'Configuration problem'; Expression = {[string]: join (",", ($_.))} ExtensionData.ConfigIssue | {{(Select-ExpandProperty FullFormattedMessage))}}.

  @{Name = 'vSphere DRS'; Expression = {$_.} DrsEnabled}},

  @{Name = "The DRS automation level"; Expression = {$_.} DrsAutomationLevel}},

  @{Name = "Use of the CPU (Mhz)"; Expression is {$CpuUsageMhz}},

  @{Name = "Cpu (Mhz) Total"; Expression is {$CpuTotalMhz}},

  @{Name = 'Cpu use (%) » ; {Expression = {[Math]: Round(100*$CpuUsageMhz/$CpuTotalMhz)}},

  @{Name = "use (GB) of memory"; Expression is {$MemoryUsageGB}},

  @{Name = "Total (GB) of memory"; Expression is {$MemoryTotalGB}},

  @{Name = 'use of memory (%) » ; {Expression = {[Math]: Round(100*$MemoryUsageGB/$MemoryTotalGB)}},

  @{Name = 'VMS NB'; Expression = {$_ |} Get - VM | Measure-object | {{Select-Object - ExpandProperty County}},

  @{Name = 'Virtual machines without VMXNET3 NB'; Expression = {$_ |} Get - VM | Get-NetworkAdapter | WHERE-object {$_.} Type - not "Vmxnet3"} | Measure-object | {{Select-Object - ExpandProperty County}},

  @{Name = 'VMotions NB'; Expression = {$_ |} Get-VIEvent - MaxSamples ([int]: MaxValue)-start (Get-Date). AddDays(-1) | Where {$_.} GetType(). {Name - eq "TaskEvent" - and $_.Info.DescriptionId - eq "VirtualMachine.migrate"} | Measure-object | {{Select-Object - ExpandProperty County}},

  @{Name = 'SvMotions NB'; Expression = {$_ |} Get-VIEvent - MaxSamples ([int]: MaxValue)-start (Get-Date). AddDays(-1) | Where {$_.} GetType(). {Name - eq "TaskEvent" - and $_.Info.DescriptionId - eq "VirtualMachine.relocate" - or $_.Info.DescriptionId - eq "StorageResourceManager.applyRecommendation"} | Measure-object | {{Select-Object - ExpandProperty County}}

  } |

  Export-Csv "C:\Script\Clusters.csv" - NoTypeInformation - UseCulture

  Could you please someone check the script above and let me know if there is something wrong

  Thank you!!

  But wait a minute, you mean that the "Num vMotions" and "Num of SvMotions" properties have a value of 0?

  This is normal, since you ask for events for the entity of the group, while you should do it for all the virtual machines in the cluster.

  Try the attached version.

• PowerCLI script to migrate virtual machines to the new vCenter environment

  Hello world

  in the next few weeks, we need about migrate 700 VMs (Windows/Linux) server to a new environment (new vCenter, new hosts, but VMs will remain on same data warehouses). VMs will be migrated not in one batch, but rather from time to time (which, however, can understand the need to migrate some 10s of virtual machines at the same time).

  Cluster names and folder structure will be identical to the old and the new vCenters. As host in the new vCenter names differ from those in the old vCenter, thought to provide a table of 'translation', which tells the script to save a given VM on host B (new vCenter) when having been registered in order to host a (old vCenter) and so on.

  I thought writing a PowerCLI script which, broadly speaking, can accomplish the following steps:

  • Connect to vCenterOld and vCenterNew
  • Correspondence table of host to read from a file (see step "register VM vCenterNew below)

  Then, in a loop:

  • Ask VM name
  • Get the settings of the virtual machine: Datastore/path, network/Portgroup, HA restart priority, host, folder, note
  • View the parameters and the VM name and request confirmation migrate the virtual machine
  • Turn off VM (closed OS gracefully, but force power off if power status is still not equal 'off' after a time given)
  • To unsubscribe from VM vCenterOld (removal of inventory)
  • Registry of the VM to the data store vCenterNew (assumptions: same folder as vCenterOld, host names are different, but for each source in vCenterOld host a host of destination in vCenterNew for you join the virtual machine to can be provided, that is, CSV)
  • The value of VM portgroup (same name as in vCenterOld)
  • Set VM HA restart priority
  • PowerON VM
  • Wait / check the VM (for example, ping) connectivity / continue immediately if the virtual machine is accessible or after a certain time if the virtual machine is still inaccessible
  • Confirm that the virtual machine has been migrated successfully, OR ask the user to check the connectivity of the virtual machine

  Now to my questions:

  • Is anyone know about an existing script that does something similar or contains parts that can be useful to compile a script like this?
  • How can vCenter two connections at the same time been managed within a PowerCLI script - or doesn't work at all and a connect/disconnect to/from the two vCenters must be completed for each virtual computer?

  Many thanks for any help.

  The following seems to work for me

  $vm = Get-VM -Name MyVM$nic = Get-NetworkAdapter -VM $vm $vdPG = $nic | select -ExpandProperty NetworkName
  
  Get-VDPortgroup -Name $vdPG
  

• PowerCLI Script Create Role in vCenter

  I'm looking for is a PowerCLI script to create a role in vCenter. I found this post, and I wonder if it can be adapted to my needs. What I need specifically is a script to create a role with all of the following privileges:

  System.Anonymous

  System.View

  System.Read

  Global.SetCustomField

  Datastore.AllocateSpace

  Network.Assign

  VirtualMachine.Inventory.Create

  VirtualMachine.Interact.PowerOn

  VirtualMachine.Interact.DeviceConnection

  VirtualMachine.Interact.SetCDMedia

  VirtualMachine.Interact.GuestControl

  VirtualMachine.Config.AddNewDisk

  VirtualMachine.Config.CPUCount

  VirtualMachine.Config.Memory

  VirtualMachine.Config.AddRemoveDevice

  VirtualMachine.Config.Resource

  VirtualMachine.Config.DiskExtend

  Resource.AssignVMToPool

  VApp.Import

  StoragePod.Config

  
  It is possible with a PowerCLI script?

  You can get the file to root like this

  Get-file-name of data centers

  The rest of your script seems ok.