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• How to prevent limited users to create virtual machines?

  Hi all;

  Is it possible to prevent standard users to create Virtual Machines in Microsoft Windows environment?

  Thank you

  Here's the problem I see... as long as the user has the ability to run VMware Workstation, you can't stop creating a VM since everything it takes, it's a TextEditor and a live ISO Image and the other can create a configuration manually, .vmx file that it points to the ISO Image and then double click on the manually created configuration .vmx file and its place and running.  Of course not all users would go to the trouble to create the .vmx file manually but there are scripts on the Internet that do and users have other ways too.

  If you don't have the appropriate infrastructure to control your users then monitor their activities and let them know him will be fired if they contravene the regulations.

• Script to create virtual machines fails when you try to add the disk to the cluster data store

  Hello

  Attached is the script that I used to create virtual machines and it works very well when virtual machines are created to warehouses of unique data, but do not have clustered data warehouses. I think that the reason is that it creates the virtual machine through the esx host (who does not know the cluter) and not via vCenter (who knows about it). Unfortunately I do not know how to fix.

  Thank you

  Astra

  Looks like he needs a store of data for this parameter object. So we need to do a get Datastore cluster I can try to test tomorrow, but try this:

  If ($datastore1 - only 'none') {}

  $drscluster = get-DatastoreCluster $datastore1

  $vmadddsk = new-disk-hard - VM $gstname CapacityKB - $datastore1size - data $drscluster store

  }

• Destination area has VMware player 3.1.4. Not possible to run a newly created virtual machine.

  For the first time, I tried to virtualize my machine using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone. The destination machine has VMware Player installed 3.1.4, so I chose, as a destination having VMware 4.0.x instead of VMware 3.0.x as 3.1.4 overflows 3.0.x. The newly created virtual machine does not under VMware 3.1.4. Is there anyway out of this except can create an another VM using VMware player 3.0.x as the destination machine? Thank you.

  Then, you should be able to simply create a (empty) virtual machine with VMware Player 3.x and then just remove the blank virtual hard drive (hard files) and replace it with the one created with VMware vCenter Converter.

• creating virtual machines off templates in Lab Manager

  Hello

  I am using vCenter Lab Manager 4.0.

  I have created several models of machine virtual Windows.

  Now, I would like to create virtual machines on these models.

  Am I able to do it. ?

  If so, how can I achieve that. ?

  I checked in the guide, but found no relevant info.

  Maybe I'm missing something.

  Please provide help. !!

  Thank you.

  Santos,

  First of all, make sure that the model is published.  Means published which are can be used as a virtual machine in the current organization.  If you need to use it in another, make sure you share the model to the user / the appropriate organization.

  2. go into your workspace: workspaces > hand

  3. click on the button "new Configuraiton.

  -Add virtual machines

  -Click OK

  4 deploy the configuration.

  Kind regards

  Jonathan

  B.SC., RHCT, VMware vExpert 2009

  NOTE: If your question or problem has been resolved, please mark this thread as answered and awarded points accordingly.

• Reports on the created virtual machines

  Is there a way to use PowerCLI to read about events in a given period and to determine how many virtual machines have been created during this period?  For example, from 15 days to 45 days?

  That sounds about right.

• MAC address grabbing PowerCLI - creating virtual machines-

  I'm trying to create a script which will create x number of VMs, enter the mac address of the NETWORK adapter on the newly created virtual e1000 computer and then add it to a CSV file.  When I run my script, I get an error "property"macaddress"is not found on this object; Make sure that there is and can be defined.

  What I am doing wrong?

  Here's what I have so far:

  $newvms = import-csv $importfile

  $objreport = @)

  $Report = import-csv $importfile | Select-object *, macaddress

  $newvms | %{

  
  $vname = $($_.) Host name)
  

  New-VM-name $vname - VMhost $vmhost ResourcePool - $pool - DiskMB $disksize - $memsize MemoryMB - NumCpu $cpu DiskStorageFormat - slim - $datastore - ID $os - NetworkName Datastore $nic0-location $location

  $macnic1 = get-NetworkAdapter - vm $vname | where {$_ game-match "e1000"} | Select-object MacAddress
  
  #$Report.hostname = $($_.) Host name)
  $Report.macaddress = $macnic1
  
  New-NetworkAdapter - VM $vname NetworkName - $nic1 - StartConnected-Type vmxnet3
  New-NetworkAdapter - VM $vname NetworkName - $nic2 - StartConnected-Type vmxnet3
  $objreport += $Report
  }

  $objreport | Export-csv $outputfile - NoTypeInformation

  It seems to work when I change

  $Report = import-csv $importfile | Select-object *, macaddress

  TO

  $Report = "" | Select-object hostname, macaddress

  But I need the content of the $importfile

  Thanks in advance

  CJ

  Hello, cjcurts-

  You can adjust the code of Luke a little so that it exports the original info as well as the MAC address.  It would be something like:

  ## save the imported info$colVMInfoFromCSV = Import-Csv $importfile## add a NoteProperty to the info (later to be a "column" at Export-Csv time)$colVMInfoFromCSV | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty macaddress -value $null$colVMInfoFromCSV | %{    $vname = $($_.Hostname)    New-VM -name $vname -VMhost $vmhost -ResourcePool $pool -DiskMB $disksize -MemoryMB $memsize -NumCpu $cpu -DiskStorageFormat thin -Datastore $datastore -GuestID $os -NetworkName $nic0 -Location $location
  
      $macnic1 = Get-NetworkAdapter -vm $vname | where {$_.type -match "e1000"} | select-object MacAddress
  
      ## put the MAC address in this "row" of the collection of info (this object in the array of objects)    $_.macaddress = $macnic1
  
      New-NetworkAdapter -VM $vname -NetworkName $nic1 -StartConnected -Type vmxnet3    New-NetworkAdapter -VM $vname -NetworkName $nic2 -StartConnected -Type vmxnet3}
  
  ## export the info, which now contains the MAC address info as well as the original info$colVMInfoFromCSV | Export-Csv $outputfile -NoTypeInformation
  

  Who uses the Add-Member cmdlet to add a NoteProperty in the original news and fills then each 'line' with the corresponding MAC address information.  It is in fact setting a value for the "macaddress" for the given custom object property.  It exports then all the info to the "outputfile".

• Failed to create virtual machine using VMWare Workstation 11 (test)

  Hello people,

  I installed VMWare Workstation on my machine Windows 10 and trying to create multiple virtual machines to test the object. I have done this before on the Windows 7 computer and did not face any problems, but this time, as soon as I gave the location of the file to deploy an operating system it comes up with some fatal errors as error BLK_CACHE IOERR if I have enough space on the HARD drive and everything is not going further. So, my question is if my computer has compatible with Windows 10 problems or there is something else that would cause this problem. Any help or comments would be appreciated on this topic.

  Thank you!.

  Thanks for your answer, Noel

  I was going through discussions in the community with similar and found subjects that VMWare had released 12 pro workstation that supports Windows 10 entirely. I personally installed it on my physical machine and it works. Here is the link for the release of Workstation 12 notes.

  VMware Workstation 12 Pro Release Notes

• Someone at - it a simple example of creating virtual machine-> the affinities of virtual machine using the PERL API?

  The question just about everything said. Is there a perl extracts to create an affinity between the virtual machines.

  Thanks, Vikas, for example and guidance. Since I am abel to make it work, I thought I'd share the code example:

  My $vm_name_list;    # A list of names of virtual machine.

  My @vm_morefs;      # Filled in the managed object refes to the virtual machines, this detail not included.

  My $cluster_name;    # Name of the cluster to create the rule in

  # Find the Cluster Compute resource object.

  My $cluster_views = Vim::find_entity_views (view_type-online 'ClusterComputeResource',
  filter-online {name-online $cluster_name});
  If (! @$cluster_views) {}
  Die "no cluster don't compute resource named $cluster_name detecte\n";
  }

  My $cluster_view = $cluster_views-> [0];

  My $rule_name = 'affinity for $vm_name_list. "

  # Create the nest of objects required for ReconfigureCluster_Task:
  #
  # ClusterConfigSpec
  rulesSpec #-> [ClusterRuleSpec]
  operation #-> ArrayUpdateInformation
  # enum (add, modify, delete)
  Info #-> ClusterAffinityRuleSpec

  My $aff_rule_spec = new ClusterAffinityRuleSpec (name => $rule_name,)
  enabled-online "TRUE."
  mandatory-online "TRUE."
  VM-online \@vm_morefs);

  My $array_update_operation = new ArrayUpdateOperation ("add");

  My $clus_rule_spec = new ClusterRuleSpec (operation => $array_update_operation, info-online $aff_rule_spec).

  My @clus_rule_specs;
  Push (@clus_rule_specs, $clus_rule_spec);

  My $cluster_config_spec = new ClusterConfigSpec (rulesSpec-online \@clus_rule_specs);
  $cluster_view-> ReconfigureCluster_Task (spec => $cluster_config_spec,)

  change-online 'TRUE'));

• Creating virtual machines on ESXi 5 and move to ESX 4.1

  Hello

  I need to create and configure computers virtual (with operating system and applications) on an environment with vSphere host ESXi 5.0 U1 U1 5.0.

  After that, I want to move the virtual machine to another environment vSphere, located in a branch office, but this time the version is 4.1 U1 (ESX 4.1 U1).

  Do you know if it is supported by VMware? will be the machine working properly?

  Thank you.

  Andrea

  No, it is not necessary because the tools are backward compatible

• Creating virtual machine with existing data

  Hi all

  I have virtualized my almost all servers except the one and only one file server.  I'm under vsphere 4 with 2 ESXi hosts and a 2000 Eternus model 100 SAN and using Veeam 6 B & R

  Current configuration

  Physical server with 2 network cards

  1 NETWORK LAN card

  1 SAN NETWORK card using MS iSCSI initiator

  Windows 2003

  There are 2 volumes on my SAN which is connected via the MS iSCSI initiator containing the data for the file server.  Server file sharing (NTFS) files stored on the San, and they have a lot of NTFS permissions on files and folders (approximately 1.5 TB of data).

  Ideal configuration

  1 virtual server

  1 vNIC to LAN

  2 volumes of SAN share via the server

  Windows 2008 r2

  My question

  Can I just add volumes to vsphere, create a virtual machine, add the two volumes of the virtual machine as 2 hard drives, the actions of installation and do with it?  I wonder where the permissions are checked and if these measures can be made without wiping the volumes.  I don't have another 1.5 TB of free space on the SAN.  I have a Netgear NAS I use as a target for backup if necessary but I prefer not to have to move the data if it is not needed.

  I hope that I have covered all my bases to make this easy to understand situation and we hope to meet .

  Thank you

  Welcome to the community - Yes, you would be able to present the NTFS on the computer virtual hosted on your server using a RDM (Raw Device Mapping). Permissions on NTFS volumes are stored in the NTFS file system-

• Creates a new Pool - does not create virtual machines

  Hi all

  Display using ESX 4.1u1, 4.6

  I've been using view for a good amount of time, able to create pools without issue.

  I tried to create a pool this morning and after configuring the settings, I hit the finish and he never started to provision VMs.

  I thought that maybe it was taking too long so I created a new pool with a couple of virtual machines to launch initial. Nothing.

  I restarted VCenter. And services.

  I should also restart the view connection server?

  I need it as soon as possible, so that any help would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  Do you have your vCenter problems corrected?   I was wondering if this fixed your problem?

• creating virtual machines in 3.5 format

  Can we create VMs in VMware ESX Server 3.5 compatible format?

  Or is the laboratory director is tightly coupled with vSphere (4.0 formats only)?

  Thank you

  Arkady

  arkadyk,

  When you create a new virtual machine template, you can choose what format will be created in the virtual machine.  (see attachment)

  A virtual machine deployed from this inherits properties and you can improve it to ESX 3.5 format 4.0 after deployment as needed.

  Kind regards

  Jonathan

  VMware vExpert 2009

  NOTE: If your question or problem has been resolved, please mark this thread as answered and awarded points accordingly.

• Create virtual machines in a cluster with vCenter Lab Manager?

  Hi, I will be putting in place of Lab Manager in the near future.  I already have virtual machines in the vsphere cluster I want to start dealing with Lab manager. Should I remove these virtual machines before the implementation of labmanger?  I'll still be able to create and host virtual machines outside the sottware to labmanger, on the hosts in the cluster of Lab Manager?

  Thanks for the help

  Raymond Golden

  VCP3, VCP4, MCSA,Net, was DRY.

  Yes, you can certainly mix "regular" VM and VM Lab Manager in the same cluster.  Just Lab Manager server knows nothing about the virtual machines created in vCenter.

  You could also separate them from resource pools... Director of the laboratory can be assigned to just use a pool of resources rather than the entire cluster.

• VCenter can create virtual machines Windows 7 x 64?

  After creating a new virtual machine and then loading an ISO file on the cd to start it appears as if the operating system loads correctly until you get to the point of restart the machine. Im hoping just to confirm that vCenter Server takes in charge the creation of Win7 machines currently.

  I was able to do a P2V of a Win7 x 86 box conversion but it is the first attempt, I did build a x 64 VM from scratch in the new agent of vSphere. Do you mean that the ESX hosts must be upgraded before it works?

  Guests must be upgraded, to ESX 4.0 U1 until you have a supported configuration.  32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7 to work on ESX 3.5 hosts is possible, you will just not supported with it.  It really comes down to whether or not you need a client supported OS.