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  For more information about vimsh and how it works, please take a look at these resources:

  http://engineering.UCSB.edu/~duonglt/VMware/#vmware_vimsh

  http://www.VI-Toolkit.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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

  William Lam

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

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  Introduction to the vMA (tips/tricks)

  Getting started with vSphere SDK for Perl

  VMware Code Central - Scripts/code samples for developers and administrators

  150 VMware developer

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• PortGroup change after a virtual machine cloning

  Hello there,

  hope someone can help me, find a solution to my problem: I want to change the PortGroup to a virtual computer after cloning a model.

  Thanks http://mighty-virtualization.blogspot.com I am able to get all the information I need. But I have no solution to try to change the PortGroup.

  My actions for the information:

  getPortGroupByNetworkName

  var dvGroups = VcPlugin.getAllDistributedVirtualPortgroups ();

  i in dvGroups
  {
  If (dvGroups [i] .name is NetworkName)
  {
  return dvGroups [i];
  }
  }

  getDistributedVirtualSwitchByPortGroup

  VGA var = VcPlugin.getAllDistributedVirtualPortgroups ();
  var DVS = new Array();

  i in VGA
  {
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  DVS.sort ();

  for (i = 0; i < DVS.length; i ++)
  {
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  }
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  (j in DVS)
  {
  (h in DVS [j] .portgroup)
  {
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  }
  }
  }

  My task scriptable workflow after completing the dvSwitch and the portGroup by networkname:

  var MinLastStatusChange = 2;
  var DateNow = new Date();
  var TempYear = DateNow.getFullYear ();
  var TempMonth = DateNow.getMonth ();
  var TempDay is DateNow.getDate () - MinLastStatusChange.;

  If (TempDay < = 0)
  {
  TempDay = TempDay + MinLastStatusChange;
  TempMonth = TempMonth - 1;
  }
  If (TempMonth < = 0)
  {
  TempMonth = TempMonth + 12;
  TempYear = TempYear - 1;
  }

  var DateTwoDaysAgo = new Date (DateNow.getFullYear (), TempMonth, TempDay, DateNow.getHours (), DateNow.getMinutes (), DateNow.getSeconds ());
  var PortSpecs = new VcDistributedVirtualSwitchPortCriteria();
  PortSpecs.connected = false;
  PortSpecs.portgroupKey = new Array (detectedPortGroup.key);

  System.log("------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------");
  System.log ("-today:" + DateNow);
  System.log ("-two days ago:" + DateTwoDaysAgo);
  System.log("------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------");
  System.log ("detected PortGroup Key:" + detectedPortGroup.key);
  System.log ("detected PortGroup Name:" + detectedPortGroup.name);
  System.log ("detected dvSwitch Name:" + detectedDvSwitch.name);
  System.log ("detected dvSwitch ID:" + detectedDvSwitch.id);
  System.log ("detected dvSwitch UUID:" + detectedDvSwitch.uuid);
  System.log("------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------");

  Ports of the var = detectedDvSwitch.fetchDVPorts (PortSpecs);
  i in Ports
  {
  If (.lastStatusChange [i] Ports < = DateTwoDaysAgo)
  {
  var detectedPort = [i] Ports;
  break;
  }
  }
  System.log (' key Port detected: "+ detectedPort.key +" IS FREE"');
  System.log ("the State of the Port detected:" + detectedPort.state);
  System.log ("last Port State change detected:" + detectedPort.lastStatusChange);
  System.log("------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------");

  var myVirtualDeviceConfigSpec = new VcVirtualDeviceConfigSpec();
  var myVirtualMachineConfigSpec = new VcVirtualMachineConfigSpec();
  var myVirtualDeviceArray = new Array();

  for (i = 0; i < vm.config.hardware.device.length; i ++)
  {
  If (System.GetModule("de.) (("WW - Informatik.Functions") .wwiIsNetworkCard (VM.config.hardware.Device [i]) == true)
  {
  Map var = vm.config.hardware.device [i];
  
  System.log ("NIC(Device"+ i +") found:"+ card ");
  
  System.log ("PRE port:" + networkCard.backing.port);
  System.log ("PRE portgroupKey:" + networkCard.backing.port.portgroupKey);
  System.log ("PRE Key:"+ networkCard.backing.port.portKey ");
  System.log ("PRE dvSwitch UUID:"+ networkCard.backing.port.switchUuid ");
  System.log("------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------");

  TempBacking = System.getModule("com.vmware.library.vc.vm.spec.config.device").createVirtualEthernetCardDvNetworkConfigSpec (detectedPortGroup);
  
  myVirtualDeviceConfigSpec = TempBacking;
  myVirtualDeviceConfigSpec.device = map;
  myVirtualDeviceConfigSpec.device.connectable.connected = true;
  myVirtualDeviceConfigSpec.device.connectable.startConnected = true;
  myVirtualDeviceConfigSpec.device.backing.port.portKey = detectedPort.key;
  myVirtualDeviceConfigSpec.device.backing.port.portgroupKey = detectedPortGroup.key;
  myVirtualDeviceConfigSpec.device.backing.port.switchUuid = detectedDvSwitch.uuid;
  myVirtualDeviceConfigSpec.operation = VcVirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.edit;
  myVirtualDeviceArray [0] = myVirtualDeviceConfigSpec;
  myVirtualMachineConfigSpec.deviceChange = myVirtualDeviceArray;

  task = vm.reconfigVM_Task (myVirtualMachineConfigSpec);

  System.getModule("com.vmware.library.vc.basic").vim3WaitTaskEnd (task, false, 0);
  }
  }

  Maybe I did the steps wrong to change the portgroup but I tried a few things and this is my best solution, but it does not work.

  Hope you can help me.

  Best regards

  Chris

  Please try my package here http://communities.vmware.com/message/1731492#1731492 since you are targeting a GROUP of virtual ports distributed

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  There is no need to do it with the cmdlet Get-View.

  You can do

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  Ce can be in any language I just need to get this information.

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