Script to change the name of the file to the virtual machine and its associated files

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• Get the IP of the virtual machine and MAC

  Hello

  I'm trying to get the IP of the virtual machine and the MAC one of my data centers.

  When I run that the following script two things happen:

  1. I don't see a vm in the output of the csv file.

  2. when I send the output to the quick PowrCLI I see only a mac and one IP address for virtual machines with network cards.

  Script

  ---------

  $MV = Get-Data Center $DC | Get-vmhost | Get - VM

  {foreach ($VM to $VMs)

  $VMx = get-view $VM.ID

  $HW = $VMx.guest.net

  foreach ($dev to $HW)

  {

  foreach ($ip in $dev.ipaddress)

  {

  $dev | Select

  @{Name = 'Name'; {Expression = {$vm.name}}.

  @{Name = 'IP address'; Expression is {$ip}},

  @{Name = 'MAC'; {Expression = {$dev.macaddress}} |

  Export-CSV VM - IP - Info.csv - NoTypeInfo

  }

  }

  }

  My console output, tested on a virtual machine with two external network cards and an internal interface "dummy".

  Name                               IP                                  MAC

  ----                                   --                                    ---

  VM1 192.168.1.1 00:50:56:xx:xx:xx

  VM1 192.168.2.1 00:50:56:xx:xx:xx

  VM1 192.x.x.xxx xx

  You see the addresses expected in summary using vSphere Client VM?

  Oh sorry, I forgot the PS 3.0 requirement.

  You can put all the entries in a table and export all at the end of the script.

  $out = @)
  $VMs = get-data center $DC | Get-vmhost | Get - VM
  {foreach ($VM to $VMs)
  $VMx = get-view $VM.ID
  $HW = $VMx.guest.net
  foreach ($dev to $HW)
  {
  foreach ($ip in $dev.ipaddress)
  {
  $out += $dev. Select @{Name = 'Name'; {Expression = {$vm.name}}, @{Name = 'IP address'; Expression = {$ip}}, @{Name = 'MAC'; {Expression = {$dev.macaddress}}
  }
  }
  }

  $out | Export-Csv - NoTypeInformation-Path ' VM - IP - Info.csv.

  Concerning

  Emanuel

• I get an error "the disk hard virtual parent is in a saved state. Discard the saved state or stop the virtual machine and try again. "during the installation of XP mode.

  I have Win7 Pro SP1 x 64.  I downloaded WindowsXPMode_en - us.exe (from Microsoft downloads) and run it.  The installation seems to work OK (I've specified a different location for the parent virtual hard disk file).  Then, installation happening and I provide the information requested (name of user and password for the XP Mode), updates Windows and OK to the issue of sharing.  The installation program then reports the following error:

  The disk hard virtual parent is in a saved state.  Discard the saved state or stop the virtual machine and try again.

  I get the error even if I try manually configure XP Mode (use the Setup Wizard).  I downloaded the installer XPMode (3 times) and reinstalled several times, always with the same result.  If it helps, I can't locate anywhere .vsv file.

  Any idea what's going on?

  Original title: XP Mode Setup error

  Hi smithnr10,

   

   

  You must post your question in the TechNet forums because it caters to an audience of it professionals.

  To do this, you must consult the link-

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7itprovirt/threads

   

  Hope this helps!

• Connect physical hard disks to the virtual machine (and leave the data intact)

  Hello

  I'm looking to virtualize a SOHO headless server, that I use mainly for secure file storage.

  Currently, the system runs Linux installed on a small disc and has two drives 1.5 TB, used exclusively for data, in a cluster of ZFS mirroring. (I use the ZFS-fuse Linux-based application).

  I want virtualization for two reasons. One is to make administration easier and safer - avoid having to connect a keyboard and the physical monitor to the box from time to time. The other is that the machine is a bit more powerful to handle the load, and I'm hoping to make it work on other, more challenging tasks.

  Now, there is a catch. These discs are as highly important. I mean the data on them. What I need is to convert the current Linux system to a virtual machine, or re - install Linux on a virtual machine (don't like that), then connect the physical disks to the virtual machine as if they were actually connected.

  I certainly don't want to vmware touches those disks somehow.

  I've read the documentation, but I'm a noob when it comes to server virtualization and system engineering and don't quite understand if this is possible or not. These discs are not a SAN, they are physically connected to the server, I want to install vSphere on. (Of course, I'll log out when I run the setup of vSphere. But I need plug them again later, and they need to be sure that vmware will leave them alone and pass them to the virtual machine transparent.)

  Sigmoid wrote:

  Oh yes, the cluster mirrored ZFS. It is essentially a software RAID type thingie.

  http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

  A material, or the point of view of virtualization, it appears two hard drives with a single huge partition on each that is not transparent to anyone, except the implementation of ZFS.

  OK, means that you can break the RAID, connect the drives to different host and configure RAID once again, right?

  Let's do it this way

  1. We will need a disc player more for VM, cause on flash, we install ESXi
  2. I will share ZFS :-), all you need to do with that before you install ESXi
  3. make the BACKUP!
  4. Disconnect the data host drives
  5. install ESXi 4.1 U1 free version on flash
  6. Download the site VMware vSphere client
  7. Connect the VM disk to ESXi
  8. customer help create the virtual machine and install the OS on it
  9. stop the virtual machine and esxi
  10. connect DATA drives to the ESXi host
  11. begin to ESXi
  12. See how to add RDM on youtube, after client use, change first hardware VM--> add a new hard disk--> choose Raw Device Mapping--> (physical or virtual) mode--> store it with folder VM - FACT
  13. Start the virtual machine, now your VM should see both drives, with good data course :-)

  I have just made this procedure (add ROW with data in Linux VM) on ubuntu VM, works well

  See you soon
  Artur
  

  Please, do not forget the points of call of the "useful" or "correct" answers

• Start the Virtual Machine and stop Option

  Hi all

  I would like to know how to change the Virtual Machine start and stop through PowerCLI Options.

  I would like to change the default start time, the default close delay with a script, but I am not able to do...

  Someone knows how to do?

  Thanks for your help!

  Sorry, it's just realized that you wanted to say.

  See the Set-VMHostStartPolicy and Set-VMStartPolicy cmdlets.

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• [Beginner] How to change the virtual machine name

  Hello

  How can I change the name of a Virtual Machine - I want to say the name that appears in VMPlayer (or VMWare Fusion) as it has recently used Virtual Machines. I tried to change the name of the vmx file but this does not affect the name of the virtual machine displayed in VMPlayer.

  Thank you very much.

  TomasBar wrote:

  How can I change the name of a Virtual Machine - I want to say the name that appears in VMPlayer (or VMWare Fusion) as it has recently used Virtual Machines.

  VMware Fusion 3.x and 2.x but not 1.x, you can click on and change the name of the virtual machine in the Virtual Machine library on the right side, just under the display area.

  For VMware Player you need to edit the "displayName ="parameter in the configuration file .vmx and of VMware Player virtual machine must be closed when you perform this operation."

• script to stop the virtual machine

  I am writing a script to stop all the virtual machine as follows:

  1. The list of the VM

  VMLIST ='/ usr/bin/vmrun list '

  for a virtual machine in '$VMLIST '.

  do

  echo '$VM '.

  1. stop the virtual machine

  / usr/bin/vmrun stop '$VM' trysoft

  sleep 2

  fact

  But he failed, the news of the error:

  / root/vmware/Windows NT / Windows NT.vmx

  Error: Could not open the virtual machine: unknown suffixNT/Windows NT.vmx file

  the feedback by the command "echo $VM" is the correct path, but why it says file unknown?

  Please refer to the attachment.

  See if that helps...

  vmlist ='/ usr/bin/vmrun list '

  printf "$vmlist" | egrep '\.vmx$ ' | while reading vm; echo '$vm '.

  / usr/bin/vmrun stop soft "$vm".

  sleep 2; fact

• Avalibale features in the free ESXi version - auto start the virtual machine and scripts shoutdown?

  Hey all,.

  Evaluating 60A expired on my ESXi (5.0.0.623860) host which runs a couple of virtual machines. Virtual machines have been setup to autostart when the host said, but now the assessment is complete, the virtual machine no longer autostart.

  In addition, I ran a simple scipt using PowerCLI. This was shot issue a stop host command, which in turn stop the gracfully VMs, then stop the host: the script command were:

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  Stop-VMHost mysESXiHost -Confirm:$false -force
  

  If I run these commands from the PowerCLI confirmation, I see the following error message:

  Stop-VMHost : 08/12/2012 17:01:52    Stop-VMHost        fault.RestrictedVersion
  .summary
  At line:1 char:12
  + Stop-VMHost <<<<  mysESXiHost -Confirm:$false -force
      + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Stop-VMHost], RestrictedVersi
     on
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Client20_VmHostServiceImpl_ShutdownVmHost_ViErro
     r,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.StopVMHost
  

  What I read, I thought that current same ESXi of execution in the free license must always let these things happen, or am I wrong?

  Chris

  There are two things to note:

  (1) the fault of . RestrictedVersion.summary details can be found here http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/06/dreaded-faultrestrictedversionsummary.html

  (2) regarding Auto Start, fairytale look here http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/07/clarification-on-the-auto-start-issues-in-vsphere-51-update-1.html

• Unable to start the virtual machine and snapshots are missing from snapshot Manager.

  Hello

  I'm new here in the VMWARE communities and I don't know if I'm posting this survey in the right place. I am currently using VMWARE Workstation 9. The issue I'm having is that I can not start my VM. The error that says:

  

  This is an overview of my settings:

  

  When I try to get a snapshot I can go back, I get this snapshot Manager screen:

  

  I checked the files on the directory of the virtual machine. The snapshot files are still there.

  I tried to solve the problem by editing the configuration of virtual machine file to use another vmdk. I got an error saying something about the parent and the child are not synchronized. Sorry I don't have a screenshot of that. I also tried to make a copy of one of the other VMDK and rename it to match with the name of the missing file. That also made me anywhere I tried looking on the net but I get answers to other vmware ESXi and vSphere products. So I don't know if they apply to my current situation.

  At this point, I'm hoping to recover my machine or at least be able to use snapshots. Please notify.

  I think that the restoration was the best way to solve this problem. I actually checked the different files, but it looks like I missed something. In any case, create snapshots with the virtual machine in a state engine is my personal preference. It is not only to save disk space (since there is no need to preserve the current state of memory), but also provides a consistent state. As for the number of snapshots, you're always on the stop side, and if you are not having issue of performace with small changes you make you should be ok. In case there is a performance problem, you may consider to store the computer virtual on an SSD that will certainly help.

  Since the Center of Documentation of VMware Workstation 10

  To the premises of the virtual machines, you can take more than 100 snapshots for each linear process. For shared virtual computers and remote, you can take a maximum of 31 snapshots for each linear process.

  André

  Post edited by: a.p. corrected fault, "SSD" instead of "SD".

• Automate the deployment of iso on the virtual machine and configuration following the

  I need to:

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  2 specify an iso file to be connected to the power on.

  3. the need to have access to the console after plugging on.

  I know that #1 and #2 are possible using the CLI. I need to know if #3 is possible.

  
  

  I need to deploy a custom on the virtual computer operating system and must have access to the console to use options in the CLI of the target VM.

  
  

  
  

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• Start the virtual machine and wait for WF, does not connect to the computer virtual for Vds (Windows 2008 R2)

  Hello

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• Dedicated network adapter to the virtual machine and the host computer not let can visit his profile

  OK, here's my question, I know how to give themselves a phyiscal nic to a vmware, but I wanted to take it one step further and do not leave the host send or receive data from this network card, only the virtual machine can use this network/NIC...

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  Thank you

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  _________________________

  VMX-settings- WS FAQ -[MOAcd | http://sanbarrow.com/moa241.html]- VMDK-manual

• PowerCLI Script to change the DNS servers and domain name

  Hello

  Brand new to PowerCLI, I'm trying to create a script that will change the domain name and the DNS servers of my ESXi servers. I found that I need to update the Vmware.Vim.HostDnsConfig to update these settings. I created the following script and the following error.

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  $config.address [0] = "10.69.69.80".
  $config.address [1] = "10.69.70.80".

  _this $ = get-view-Id "HostNetworkSystem-networkSystem.

  _this $. UpdateDnsConfig ($config)

  You can not call a method on a null value expression.
  

  Line: 1 char: 23
  

  + $_C. UpdateDnsConfig < < < < ($config)
  

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidOperation: (UpdateDnsConfig:String)], RuntimeException
  

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: InvokeMethodOnNull

  I guessed the error message that I need to a value in the host name, I do not need to change the host name. So I create a variable to remove the host name and place it in the $config. Line received host name but still a mistake because the variable is pulling more information that I need.

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  Line: 1 char: 23
  + $_C. UpdateDnsConfig < < < < ($config)
  + CategoryInfo: NotSpecified: (:)) [], MethodInvocationException)
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: DotNetMethodException

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  VirtualNicDevice:
  HostName: @{Name = ESXI01}
  Domain name: new.domain.com
  Address: {10.69.69.80, 10.69.70.80}
  SearchDomain:
  DynamicType:
  DynamicProperty:

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  VCenter 5 running.

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• How to change the virtual machine after clone

  I'm a beginner to learn vm.

  Now, I already cloned a new existing virtual machine in a virtual machine.

  Then, I want to change it.

  (1) change the name

  (2) change the number of the processor

  (3) change the size of the memory

  (4) change the size of the disk

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  I use c# API. I put something when clone?

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  Hello

  You can clone the virtual computer to a model first and then deploy it to this model. For customizing the properties of guest operating system, you can use sysprep (from Microsoft) or customization Spesification Manager (from VMware vCenter Server). Of course, you can also configure it manually change settings menu (from vSphere Client).