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• Script to import virtual machines from data warehouses

  Is there a quick way to import all of the virtual machines on a data store in a vCenter?  A kind of browse VMX files and import?

  More to the point.  I have the only store of data that has been moved to a new location with approximately 100 VM on it.  I want to import all the virtual machines on this unique to a single host data store to the new location.

  Thank you

  Boston Tech Guy

  You can specify the name of this 1 data store in the variable $Datastores .

  And if you change this line

  $ESXHost= Get-Cluster$Cluster| Get-VMHost|select-First1

  in

  $ESXHost=Get-VMHost -Name MyEsx

  It should do the trick.

• List of virtual machines in data warehouses

  Hi all

  I want to list all virtual machines in warehouses of data starting with "MDF".  I tried

  Get - VM - Datastore (Get-Datastore-name MDF *) | Select-object - property name, data store > VMplusdatastore.txt

  But it does not list the names of data store for a reason any?

  Also some VM will have records on more than a logic unit number - I suppose that it is not translated here?

  Wouldn't be better to do the opposite?

  Hi Simon,.

  the problem with your script is that the virtual computer object does not have a property data store. That is why the data column store is empty in the output. The following script will combine virtual machine names and the data store for all with names beginning with MDF data warehouses:

  Get-Datastore -Name MDF* | ForEach-Object {
    $Datastore = $_
    $Datastore | Get-VM | ForEach-Object {
      $Report = "" | Select-Object -property Name, Datastore
      $Report.Name = $_.Name
      $Report.Datastore = $Datastore.name
      $Report
    }
  } > VMplusdatastore.txt
  

  If a virtual machine disks on multiple data stores, it will display all the combinations.

  Best regards, Robert

• Moving propelled out of virtual machines between data warehouses

  I need to create a script to move a list of virtual machines in the current in another data store.

  The script must move the first VM, wait for the operation to complete, and then move the second and so on.

  Y at - it no samples can I start from?

  Concerning

  Marius

  You can check VMRelocatedEvent with Get-ViEvent.

  Something like that

  $targetVM = "MyVM.

  $finished = $false

  {while(!$finished)}

  If ((Get-Date) Get-VIEvent-Start. AddMinutes(-15) - MaxSamples ([int]: MaxValue) |

  where {$_-is [VMware.Vim.VmRelocatedEvent] - and $_.} {Vm.Name - eq $targetVM)}

  $finished = $true

  }

  else {}

  Sleep 30

  }

  }

• ESXi 4.1 upgrade to ESXi 5.5 while all virtual machines and data warehouses

  We have two servers ESXi 4.1.0 348481 (Essentials) and we need to upgrade to ESXi 5.5 for support of Windows Server R2 2012. We intend to use the interactive upgrade. We want to ensure that the virtual machine is preserved. More precisely VMFarm001 where ESXi is installed in the same data store as VMServer1. VMServer1 is our largest server and cannot be migrated to another data store easily because we are not allowed for vMotion.

  The following layout

  VMFarm001

  Dell PowerEdge R710

  Data store:

  Storage1 - 1.36 TB

  VMServer1 - MS Server 2003

  Install ESXi

  Storage2 - 1.82 TB

  VMServer2 - MS Server 2008 R2

  VMServer3 - MS Server 2008 R2

  VMFarm002

  HP ProLiant ML350 G5

  Data store:

  Storage1 - 95GB

  Install ESXi

  ISOs

  Storage2 - 1.82 TB

  VMServer4 - MS Server 2008 R2

  VMServer5 - MS Server 2008 R2

  I have a feeling I'm worried for nothing given that option during the ESXi upgrade and keep the VMFS datastore.

  Thank you

  Yes, that's correct.

  I recently finished the upgrade of lots of stand-alone hosts ESXi 4.1 (with local storage only) to 5.1 and all were successful. The same process applies to 5.5, so you shouldn't have a problem with preservation of VMFS data warehouses (and all virtual machines).

• Can you pass offline virtual machines between data warehouses using the 'Migration' with the basic Kit Essentials feature?

  I speak not of Essentials Plus vMotion between hosts or migration of VMS between hosts and data warehouses online. Just curious to know if its possible to off a virtual machine and click the button to migrate to another store of data with the basic Essentials bundle.

  Welcome to the community - Yes you can - it's what we call a cold migration.

• Newbie question: list the Configuration of virtual machines and data warehouses

  Hello

  I'm new on using powercli how to list all virtual machines in a certain data center, their memory, Procs and what data warehouses they are on.

  I know you can use get - vm | Select-object name, NumCPU MemoryMB but if I add DatastoreIdList as well, it doesn't seem to work.  What Miss me

  Thank you very much

  Laurence

  That's right, you could do

  Get-VM MyVM | Select Name,@{N="DS";E={[string]::join(',',($_.datastoreidlist|%{(Get-View -Id $_).Name}))}},Description |
      Export-Csv "C:\test.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

  Just look at whether the separator for CSV is be a comma in your culture, you probably need to adjust the separator in the Join method!

• Need a script to find records and data warehouses that are near capacity.

  Guys,

  I'm new to Powershell faitly, is it possible to write a script tht will find virtual disks and data warehouses that are over 90% full?  I also want to export the results to an excel file.

  Thank you.

  For a 90% threshold, you let the value to 0.1.

  Calculate the free space as a percentage, so if the free space is less than or equal to 0.1 there is 10% or less available free space.

  Hope that makes sense.

• Virtual machine creation dates (birthdays)

  I worked on a little dashboard that allows you to find virtual machines created in view of a specific range of dates.  It takes all virtual machines, located between a series of dates and shows on a table.  It looks like at any time, but I'm curious to know if others would filter down again by vCenter/Cluster etc...

  Thoughts?

  

  This is the cartridge for you to take a look at.

  http://en.community.Dell.com/TechCenter/virtualization/infrastructure/w/fog-virt-wiki/5731.Community-cartridge-VM-creation-date

• Problem with script to clone virtual machines

  Hello

  I created a script to clone virtual machines on a regular basis around a method posted by LucD and Simon Long here or on their blogs.

  Here is the part that does the actual work:

  $VM = get - VM $Machine.MasterVM
  # Send Email of departure
  .\startmail.ps1
  # Create new snapshot clone
  $CloneSnap = $VM | New-Snapshot - name "Instant Test" - Quiesce
  # Get the managed object display
  $VmView = $VM | Get-View
  # Get the managed folder object reference
  $CloneFolder = $VmView.parent
  # Construction specification clone
  $CloneSpec = new-object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec
  $CloneSpec.Snapshot = $VmView.Snapshot.CurrentSnapshot
  # Make the linked disc specification
  $CloneSpec.Location = new-object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
  $CloneSpec.Location.Datastore = (get-Datastore-name $Machine.BackupDS). Extensiondata.MoRef
  $CloneSpec.Location.Host = (get-vmhost-name $Machine.BackupHost). Extensiondata.MoRef
  $CloneSpec.Location.Transform = [Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateTransformation]: sparse
  $CloneName = "$vm - BU - $date"
  # Create clone
  $vmView.CloneVM ($cloneFolder, $cloneName, $cloneSpec)
  # Write newly created VM to stdout as confirmation
  Get - VM $CloneName
  # Remove snapshot created for clone
  $Snap = get-Snapshot - VM (VM-Get-name $Machine.MasterVM)-name $CloneSnap | Remove-Snapshot - confirm: $False
  #Send full email
  .\endmail.ps1

  I want to use in an environment composed of 3 servers ESXi 4.0 with a local data store each. This works well in my test environment, but not in that productive.

  Here, I get this error:

  Exception, calling 'CloneVM' with '3' or the arguments: "it was not correct to specified parameters.
  Spec.Location.pool ".
  C:\script\vm-backup\backup.ps1:98 char: 18
  + $vmView.CloneVM < < < < ($cloneFolder, $cloneName, $cloneSpec)
  + CategoryInfo: NotSpecified: (:)) [], MethodInvocationException)
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: DotNetMethodException

  In a comment on his blog, made Simon refers to an error in the data store, but it seems very well here.

  By comparing the values of the characteristics to those of my testbed everything looks good, too.

  Does anyone of you can tell me where to look for the problem?

  Thanks in advance

  Christian

  That's correct, 1 by Server default resource pool.

  You can do

  Get-ResourcePool-name resources-site (Get - VMHost - name MyEsx)

  to get the default pool for a specific ESX Server

  CAB, you add a line in your original script

  $CloneSpec.Location.Pool = (get-ResourcePool-name resources-site (Get - VMHost - name MyEsx)). Extensiondata.MoRef

  This should be the correct MoRef

  The message seems to indicate that the target VM already partially exist.

  Remove it before you run your script once again.

• Could not find any number on the box that begins with 1057, none of the other work numbers as a "serial number".

  Could not find any number on the box that begins with 1057, none of the other work numbers as a "serial number".

  Serial numbers are normally only applies to the case of the disc.  If you do not find the case of disk while you might be dealing with a scenario of redemption code... depends on where you bought the software and what is the software.

  Quickly find your serial number

  Using redemption code

• 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

  }

• How to move a virtual machine in the warehouses of data on ESXi 4.1.0

  All,

  I need to move a virtual machine from a data store to another on the same host.  I have two drive bays where each array disk is its data store on.  However, one of them has problems if I want to move two of the virtual machine to a data to another store.

  Is it possible through vsphere and if so, how?

  My host is a:

  Dell PowerEdge 2950

  vSphere Client Version 4.1.0

  VMware ESXi 4.1.0

  Hello

  1. turn off the virtual machine to be moved

  2. right click on the virtual machine, and then select Remove in the inventory (the fleeting VM on the data store)

  3. browse the data store, in the left pane, right-click on the folder of the virtual machine and select move to...

  4 browse the new data store, open the VM folder

  5. save the .vmx file

  6. start the virtual machine in the new location and make sure that it works.

• In need of a script to the inventory of the virtual computer on data warehouses

  I analyzed vCheck by www.virtu-al.net. Great script and I can learn a lot of information that I need. However, I am a newbie to script and is looking to add a piece that I need inventory of data warehouses.

  That's what I need:

  I need an inventory of VMS on each cluster and have it store data that they are on a report. It would happen every night and I would be delighted if it had exported to a html file which can be downloaded to an internal wiki. I love the output html of the vCheck tool and would like to add this piece to the tool, so that it is brought to the same html file.

  Does anyone know if there is a script that will help me to do?

  Thank you!

  No problem, happy, I can help you

  This will include the ESXi host.

  To sort the list, we have everything first to grasp objects in an array and then sort.

  $result = @()
  foreach ($Cluster in $Clusters){
     $result += (Get-VM -Location $Cluster | Get-HardDisk |
     Select @{N="Cluster";E={$cluster.Name}},
       @{N="Host";E={$_.Parent.Host.Name}},
       @{N="VM";E={$_.Parent.Name}},
     @{N="Datastore";E={$_.Filename.Split(']')[0].TrimStart('[')}})
  }
  $result | Sort-Object -Property VM
  

• How to create a new virtual machine with two warehouses of data through new-vm?

  Hi guys,.

  Can you please help or direct me to the right format? I'm new with vsphere powercli.

  How to create a virtual machine with two other data store by using the new-vm?

  $datastore1 = get-datastore. WHERE-object {$_.} Name - eq "lun1"}

  $datastore2 = get-datastore. WHERE-object {$_.} Name - eq "lun2"}

  new-vm-name vmtest01 - VMHost ESXserver - datastore $datastore1 diskmb - 8192 $datastore2 diskmb - 8192 - memorymb 4096 - numcpu 2 - ID winNetStandardGuest

  I got this error when I run vsphere powercli. I appreciate if you can help. Thank you

  New-VM: cannot bind parameter 'DiskMB '. Cannot convert the 'lun2"val

  EU to type 'VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.DatastoreManagement.DatastoreIm '.

  PL"type"System.Int64 ".

  At line: 1 char: 85

  + new-vm-name vmtest01 - VMHost ESXserver - $datastore1 data store

  diskmb - < < < < 8192, $datastore2 - diskmb 8192

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidArgument: ( , ParameterBindingE)

  Xception

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage, VMware.VimAutomat

  ion.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.NewVM

  Bryan

  The New-VM cmdlet takes a single value of the parameter - data store and all of the virtual disks will be located on this data store.

  If I understand your request, you create a virtual machine with 2 virtual disks, each on a different data store.

  You can use the cmdlet New - hard drive for it.

  $datastore1 = get-datastore | where-object {$_.Name -eq "lun1"}
  $datastore2 = get-datastore | where-object {$_.Name -eq "lun2"}
  
  $vm = new-vm -name vmtest01 -VMHost ESXserver -datastore $datastore1 -diskmb 8192 -memorymb 4096 -numcpu 2 -GuestId winNetStandardGuest
  new-harddisk -vm $vm -datastore $datastore2 CapacityKB (8192 * 1KB)
  

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