Running PowerCLI connect VIServer & Get - VM as a single command

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• Connect-VIServer throws the invalid URI error in the Studio of Powershell, but is very well outdoors

  I don't know if it's a problem of Powershell Studio 2014 or PowerCLI, but other people have reported the "invalid URI: the hostname could not be parsed" error, so I'll start here.

  I have a PowerCLI 5.0.1 on Windows 7, Powershell v2.0 and Powershell Studio 2014.

  In my script, when I run the Connect-VIServer-Server $server command, the command fails and generates the invalid URI error.  However, when I run my script in the command window PowerCLI, the script works fine.

  I guess I have a problem of environment in the Studio of Powershell, but wonder what circumstances causes PowerCLI to raise this error.

  So far, I have not had much luck with Studio 2014 Powershell and PowerCLI, don't know if it's powershell v2.0 or something else.

  It looks like a Studio of Powershell environment problem.

  I have many ps1 files and use the point of supply to load the files ps1 in support which includes the call to connect-VIServer.  When I put the connect-VIServer in the file main ps1 I can connect to my vCenter, but when I put in the origin file, I cannot connect, nor can fact the fitting of test-work order.

  Thanks for the help.

• start-work using connect-viserver hangs in powercli 6

  Hello

  Previously, I used powercli jobs to execute commands to invoke vmscript quite successfully in our workplaces 5.1 and 5.1.

  I'm testing these scripts in vSphere 6 with pwoercli 6 and am having some problems with the script.

  An example of the previous scripts that worked is as follows:

  -----------------------------------

  Start-job-name $vm - RunAs32 - PSVersion 2.0 - scriptblock {}

  Param ($vm, $vcentre, $GuestCred, $session)

  {if(!$Global:DefaultVIServer)})

  If (!) () Get-pssnapin. where {$_.name - eq "vmware.vimautomation.core"})) {}

  try {}

  Add-pssnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core - ea 0. out-null

  } catch {}

  throw "could not load the PowerCLI snap."

  }

  }

  try {}

  to connect-viserver $vcentre - $session wa - 0 session | out-null

  } catch {}

  throw "Failed to connect to server VI".

  }

  }

  $TestGuestCredentials = "dir C:\. »

  Invoke-VMScript - VM $vm GuestCredential - $GuestCred - $TestGuestCredentials ScriptText

  } - ArgumentList, $vm, $GuestCred, $session, $vcentre | FT

  -----------------------------------

  Now, in powercli 6 using modules that I tried to edit the script as well as the previous option using addsnapin is no longer works:

  -----------------------------------

  Start-job-name $vm - RunAs32 - PSVersion 4.0 - scriptblock {}

  Param ($vm, $vcentre, $GuestCred, $session)

  If (!) () Get-Module-name VMware.VimAutomation.Core - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {}

  . "C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere.

  }

  try {}

  to connect-viserver $vcentre - $session wa - 0 session | out-null

  } catch {}

  throw "Failed to connect to server VI".

  }

  $TestGuestCredentials = "dir C:\. »

  
  

  Invoke-VMScript - VM $vm GuestCredential - $GuestCred - $TestGuestCredentials ScriptText

  } - ArgumentList, $vm, $GuestCred, $session, $vcentre | FT

  -----------------------------------

  Using the foregoing in powercli 6 that the work never ends.  It's as if the connect-viserver command causes a response that requires intervention and locks work.

  
  

  If I remove the connect-viserver in the work section - it full well.

  Any ideas would be very appreciated!

  See you soon

  Have you tried switching of warning messages via the cmdlet Set-PowerCLIConfiguration , the DisplayDeprecationWarnings parameter?

• I use a dongle for my internet but suddenly I can't connect. "" When I run windows diagnostics I get this message "not set up to establish a connection on the port.

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  I use a dongle for my internet but suddenly I can't connect. When I run windows Diagnostics I get this message... "www.microsoft.com"is not configured to establish a connection on port "service world wide web (HTTP)" with this computer. Can anyone help please?

  Hello

  (1) don't you make changes to the computer until the problem occurred?

  I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if it helps:

  Method 1: Try to start your system in safe mode with network and check if the same problem occurs.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/start-your-computer-in-safe-mode

  Method 2: If the question does not exist in Mode safe mode then try to put your computer in a clean boot state.

  By setting your boot system minimum state helps determine if third-party applications or startup items are causing the problem.

   

  How to troubleshoot a problem by performing a clean boot in Windows Vista or Windows 7:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929135

  Note: After the boot minimum troubleshooting step, follow step 7 in the link provided to return the computer to a Normal startup mode.

  Follow these steps to reset the computer to start as usual:

  (a) click on start toreduce this top that i, type msconfig.exe in the Start Search box and press ENTER.

  If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password, or click continue.

  (b) under the general tab, click the Normal startup option, and then click OK.

  (c) when you are prompted to restart the computer, click restart.

  Method 3: Of connection problems in Windows wireless and wired network:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/help/wired-and-wireless-network-connection-problems-in-Windows

  Check this link for more information:

  Why can't I connect to the Internet?
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/why-can-t-I-connect-to-the-Internet

  Hope this information is useful.

• When I try to add a VPN connection, I get an error that the wizard is unable to connect. I am running Windows Vista.

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• What is the minimum privileges that I return so he can make a Connect-VIServer and a Get - VM?

  Hi all

  I'm writing a small script to list all our virtual machines.

  I want installation service account just for that and I want to give to these minimum permissions accounts: just enough to Connect-VIServer and a Get - VM.

  Should what minimum privileges I give?

  How could I have figured this out on my own?

  Thanks in advance!

  -Chris

  
  

  Read only role applied to the vCenter node.

• Firefox only runs very slowly I get "403 forbidden" message whenever I connect. How can I fix it?

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• Running PowerCLI scripting against vCenter occupies space of database in vCenter?

  Hi all

  Someone can confirm, running or collecting data using PowerCLI against vCenter occupy or use vCenter database space?

  Some commands (generally the things which create, modify (including the power on/off/suspend/move/run, etc.). or remove) will create event entries will be stored in the database of vCenter. Others who may are Connect-VIServer can also register an event. The "Get" cmdlets will not create entered events

  You can identify those who have the VI Client open and see if the script causes all events appear in the lower pane or by running Get-VIEvent on the vCenter server after your script is run (search for events based on the username)

• connection of several VC with connect-viserver

  Based on another post, I tried to connect to multiple environments within a script.   My intention was to use

  $vclist = 'server1', 'Server2', 'server' 3

  {foreach ($vc to $vclist)

  to connect-viserver $vc

  }

  So to do the job

  {foreach ($connection in $defaultVIServers)

  to connect-viserver-session $connection. SessionId

  {do work}

  }

  It did not work. A command such as get - vm were withdrawing from all 3 of VC.   Should I rewrite with a connect then disconnect?

  How to work with different connections is implemented a little differently.

  First of all, make sure that you configure PowerCLI to work in multi mode.

  $config = Get-PowerCLIConfiguration if($config.DefaultVIServerMode -eq "Single"){
      Set-PowerCLIConfiguration -DefaultVIServerMode Multiple}
  

  Open your vCenter or ESX (i) connections

  $vclist = "server1","server2","server3" foreach ($vc in $vclist){
       connect-viserver $vc}
  

  When you run a cmdlet against a use specific vCenter the -Server setting

  Get-VM -Server $defaultVIServers[0]
  

  If you omit the - server parameter and you run in multi mode, the cmdlet will run against all connections.

  The $defaultVIServers variable contains all the connections.

• Release of connect-viserver added to the variable - how?

  Hello

  I'm fighting to understand a problem with a script that I write to stop our vSphere & NetApp infrastructure when our UPS battery is critical.  If someone would be so kind help where I am wrong, I would be happy.

  A function connects to vSphere, gets the list of running virtual machines and this output to a csv file.  The value of the csv path is then returned by the function to be used elsewhere in the script.

  The problem I encounter is that the output of the command connect-viserver is being added for the returned data, and so I did not have a clean file to a csv file name more.  When I put a breakpoint on the return line, the value of $RunningVM_File is: C:\Path\To\file.txt, continue the script and check the value of the variable of the function is returned to, and the returned value has changed:

  Port of user name

  ----                           ----  ----

  vCenter_Server_NAme 443 domain\username

  C:\Path\To\file.txt

  Here is the function of the origin of the problem:

  function Initialize-vSphereShutdown

  {

  [CmdletBinding()]

  [OutputType ([string])]

  Param

  (

  # Description helps Param1

  [Parameter (mandatory = $true,)]

  ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = $true,

  Position = 0)]

  $vSphereServer,

  # Description helps Param2

  [string]

  $BasePath,

  [pscredential]

  $Credential,

  # Description helps Param

  [Parameter]

  [string] $Logfile

  )

  Begin

  {

  #Connect to vSphere

  SE connect-VIServer-Server $vSphereServer - Credential $Credential # - User $UserName - Password $Password

  Write-debug ' connected to: $vSphereServer.

  Write-output ((Get-Date-f o) +"- connected to vCenter / ESXi host:"+ $vSphereServer) | out-file $Logfile - Append

  $RunningVM_File = ($BasePath) + "RunningVMs.txt".

  }

  Process of

  {

  If (Test-Path ($RunningVM_File)) {}

  Remove-Item ($RunningVM_File)

  }

  #Return list of all ESXi hosts managed by the host connected/vCenter

  $ESXiSRV = get-VMHost | Select-Object - ExpandProperty name | Out-string

  Write-debug ' following ESXi hosts are available:

  $ESXiSRV write-debug

  Write-output ((Get-Date-f o) +"- the following ESXi hosts are available:"+ $ESXiSRV) | out-file $Logfile - Append

  $vCenterESXiHost = get-VMHost - VM $vSphereServer | Select-Object - ExpandProperty name | Out-string

  $vCenterESXiHost | Out-file ($BasePath + "vCenterESXiHost.txt")

  Write-debug ' vCenter Server running on host: $vCenterESXiHost.

  Write-output ((Get-Date-f o) +' - vCenter Server running on the host: "+ $vCenterESXiHost) | out-file $Logfile - Append

  Debugging of Scripture "implementation of virtual machines.

  $RunningVM = get - VM | Where-Object {$_.} PowerState - eq "Receptor"} | SELECT name, folder, VApp

  $RunningVM | Export-Csv $RunningVM_File - NoTypeInformation

  Write-debug ' list of virtual computers running sauvΘs: $RunningVM_File.

  Write-output ((Get-Date-f o) +' "-list of virtual machines running recorded at:" + $RunningVM_File) | out-file $Logfile - Append

  }

  End

  {

  return $RunningVM_File

  }

  }

  Send the output of the cmdlet COnnect-VIServer into a black hole ;-)

  Like this

  SE connect-VIServer-Server $vSphereServer - Credential $Credential # - User $UserName - Password $Password | Out-Null

• Scheduled - task to connect-VIServer

  Hi all. I wrote a script to do some work, but I have a problem with authentication. Whenever it runs it runs under my accout rather one specified in the script.

  I followed this guide so so before him below exported a copy of the password for the user account for the script (PSCredentials file)

  $PowerCLIUserAccount = "DOMAIN\User
  
  $PowerCLIUserPassword = Get-Content PSCredentials | ConvertTo-SecureString
  $PowerCLICredentials = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PsCredential $PowerCLIUserAccount, $PowerCLIUserPassword
  
  Connect-VIServer -Server VCSERVER
  

  At this point if it is connect but using my account rather than the script details?

  Try changing the last line to

  SE connect-VIServer-Server VCSERVER - Credential $PowerCLICredentials

• Impossible to use Connect-VIServer

  I have two machines, both with PowerCLI 5.1 R1. A machine is Server 2003 with .net 2.0 SP1, 3.0 SP1 .net, and installed .net 4 (call this server1). The other machine is Windows 7 with .net installed 4.5 (let's call this Station1). The machine called server1 is also the vCenter Server

  When I opened PowerCLI to Workstation1, it connects fine. When I opened PowerCLI on server1, I get the following error:

  SE connect-VIServer: method not found: ' Int32 System.Threading.WaitHandle.WaitAny
  (System.Threading.WaitHandle [], Int32) ».
  On line: 1 char: 17
  + Connect-VIServer < < < < server1
  + CategoryInfo: NotSpecified: (:)) [connect-VIServer], MissingMet)
  hodException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: System.MissingMethodException, VMware.VimAutomati
  on.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.ConnectVIServer

  What Miss me?

  Thank you.

  Install this package, which includes .net Framework 3.5, but also the latest service packs for 2.0 and 3.0.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/en-US/Download/details.aspx?ID=25150

  Then I would also download .NET framework of Microsoft security patches, as there were some published since these versions of .NET have been released.

• Custom Connect-VIServer System.OutOfMemoryException

  Hello

  I try to use PowerCLI on a remote server, using Enter-PSSession.

  Here are the steps I take:

  1 enter-PSSession < servername > - Credential < username >

  2 add-PSSnapin - name:VMWare.VimAutomation.Core

  3 connect-VIServer < VIServername >

  Then, I get this error:

  Connect-VIServer: 01/01/2012 18:54:27 connect - VIServer Exception from the
  

  of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown.
  + CategoryInfo: NotSpecified: (:)) [connect-VIServer], ViError)
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Client20_ConnectivityServiceImpl_Reconnect_Excep
  tion, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.cmdlets.Commands.ConnectVIServer

  If I do all the above steps locally on the server that I am PS Remoting for, it all works very well... I hope that there are only a few space change of parameter or the memory that I can do to make it work.

  I tried communication distance to 2 servers various and also tried PowerCLI 4.1.1 and 5.0.

  Thanks for any help that anyone can provide.

  Dan

  This could be the memory limit when you do remoting of PS.

  Try the fix described in access remote of memory exception

• How to make the Connect-VIServer cmdlet to always ask for username password

  Hi all

  I use the connect-viserver cmdlet to connect between host windows to my vcenter server.

  using

  The host - Powershell - 2.0, Windows XP, Powercli installed machine.

  Target machine - Vcenter server 4.1.0 on windows 2008 server, in the other subnet

  I want to have a provision that it must always ask for user name and password to connect.

  I took a look at

  http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.VMware.wssdk.apiref.doc_50/Vim.virtualmachine.html

  resultof = % 22connect - viserver % 22 & http://pubs.VMware.com/vSphere-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.VMware.PowerCLI.cmdletref.doc_50/connect-VIServer.html

  But failed to get the relevant information.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you

  Madalena

  Bangalore-India

  My mistake, Connect-ViServer does not accept a SecureString. You first need to convert it

  Try it like this

  $userName = "username"
  $passwd = Read-Host ("Password for " + $userName) -AsSecureString:$true
  $cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $userName,$passwd
  Connect-VIServer -Server MyServer -Credential $cred
  

• Pass the credentials to connect-VIServer

  Hey all,.

  I give my first ride with scritping with powercli. I have currently a "script" that consists of two one liners, first line is to remove a virtual machine and the second line is to create a virtual machine from a clone. Nothing major, I know. I'm trying to understand, what I would plan this script as a Windows task and pass the credentials used to run the task to the cmdlet Connect-VIServer I at the beginning of the scipt.

  Someone help a rookie?

  TIA,

  -Jason

  Why not let the scheduled task run with this specific account?

  In this way, you don't have to pass the credentials to the cmdlet Connect-VIServer, it uses the credentials of the user under which the scheduled task runs.

  If the above is not possible and you must pass credentials, take a look at Hal functions PSCredential-export and import-PSCredential.

  These jacks allow the use the credentials in a secure manner that pass them in clear text in your script.