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• Setting permissions on a virtual machine

  We run a VM hosting service. I wrote scripts to create, delete, and update virtual machines. The problem I have is setting permissions on a virtual machine. We have groups Active Directory (AD) for the management of the permissions on the virtual machines. I am able to manually add these ad groups tab permissions on a virtual machine using the vCenter console, but I could not describe the process. We run 5.0 vCenter. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

  Hi B

  Assuming that you do not have many ads with replication issues Sites / ore something latency... maybe this could be a problem:

  In my script I user QAD Cmdlets... as I wrote this powershell script was without value 'default' - module

  It might be the QAD Cmdlets to return the other default strings them from Microsoft.

  I suggest you play with this line in order to get a response... I'm not able to test this now... excuse... :

  $perm.principal = $mrdgrp

  # Does 'primary' eventualy implies PrincipalName? Something like:

  $perm.principal = ' VMCA_group_name@C***. EDU'

  # Or second try...

  "$perm.principal = ' C * \VMCA_group_name.

• Create custom workflows in virtual machine

  Hello

  I use a native workflow 'Create custom virtual machine', but it does not deploy a machine of the ntemplate.

  He built a raw with personalised VM. Some other workflow to deploy the VM from the model but without customization.

  Is it possible to include an option to model the workflow "Create custom virtual machine"?

  Thanks in advance

  Use several workflow and actions as building blocks to build one that meets your needs... For example, suppose you want to deploy a Windows VM with customization...

  Create a new workflow called "deploy Windows VMS"

  Inside of this workflow, add the following workflow:

  Clone, windows with a single NETWORK card and credential<-- this="" will="" clone="" a="" vm="" windows="" vm="" from="" template,="" perform="" sysprep="" (change="" unique="" id,="" guest="" os="" name,="" set="" administrator="" password,="" join="" domain="" if="" specified,="" and="" set="" ip="" address="" as="">

  Take the exit (a new virtual machine) this workflow and send it to each flow of work following:

  • Change of RAM (Workflow)
  • Add the disk (Workflows)
  • changeVMvCPU (Action)

  should look a bit like this:

  

  Once you have linked all together correctly and all attachments, you'll probably want to adjust the presentation so that the CPU/Mem are in the correct section, as well as additional info on the disk... Here's a quick example:

  

  This process could be replicated, but using a Linux workflow specific to meet the same needs deployment clone custom Linux virtual machines.

• Terrible performance virtual machine running SAV 10

  Before we get too far into this, I blame especially SAV 10 to be a resource hog, but I wonder if there is a way I can increase the performance to an acceptable level.

  In short, I set up a new PC the other day on Ubuntu 64-bit installed 7 workstations 64 bits for Linux on it and set up a VM XP 32-bit with 2 VCPUs, 1 GB of RAM and a 40 GB prealloue virtual disk.  So far, so good - performance was such that I could watch video in the virtual machine with a stutter that slight.

  Then, for I can meet the requirements of the host for our company VPN, and use for remote access to work, I downloaded and installed 10 SAV of our intranet.  Immediately, the performance went in the toilet while the virtual machine CPU usage doubled.  I waited a few minutes after clicking on a button or icon to see the effect.  I tried to disable auto-protect, but he had only marginal benefits and actually seemed to wake quickly.  Uninstalling SAV completely resolved all the issues (I could see performance improve during the uninstall process that each component has been closed).

  Is there a simple fix known for this problem, or is it just a case of being a pig irremediable Symantec?  I read that Symantec can't SAV 10 on a virtual machine, but I don't know what the extent of their endorsement.

  Try again with 1 vCPU.

  Recent Linux kernels have a 'problem' (or should I say bug?) scheduling vSMP VMs.

• OsCustomizationSpec and OSCustomizationNicMapping they are a good way to set up the new virtual machine for the model

  I build a script to generate auto magicly VM when I have import information from a csv file. I have the latest PowerCli, I am trying to build servers r2 Sever 2012 model.  I tried several OsCustomizationSpec (OCS) of in the hope of getting something to work, but I had no luck so far.  In VCenter, it shows that it applies the OCS, but is not apear to have an impact on the server.  I have disabled UAC since the last time that I tried it so maybe that will make a difference.  I am under ESXi 5.1 update 2, just to try to give all the necessary information.  Ideally, I'd like Sysprep, the value of intellectual property, change the computer name and join the server to the domain.  That's all! lol I have the book "VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reffernece, automating vSphere Administration, I walked through step by step.  The new version of PowerCli seems not have the x 86 limitation as earlier versions of PowerCli.  I tried so many different things, I'm not sure what to put in place as a starting point.

  # Save the object credentials with permission to join the domain.
  $DomainCredentials = get-Credential "domain\testername."
  # Clone our Spec by adding the domain information.
  $Spec = get-OSCustomizationSpec "Windows Server 2012 R2"
  $Spec += get-OSCustomizationNicMapping - Spec $Spec
  #$Spec | Select *.

  # Get our VM
  # Change network settings
  Get - VM BigServername | Get-NetworkAdapter | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName nic - 172.16.25 - VLAN225 - connected: $true '
  -Confirm: $false | out-null
  # Close the comments to make change.
  Stop-VMGuest - VM $VM - confirm: $false | out-null
  # Wait while feedback stops
  While ($vm. ExtensionData.Runtime.PowerState - not "poweredOff")
  {
  Start-Sleep - seconds 1
  $vm. ExtensionData.UpdateViewData ('Runtime.PowerState')
  }
  # Apply Spec customization to apply the new network settings
  Get - VM "BigServername" |
  Set-VM - OSCustomizationSpec "R2 Windows Server 2012" - confirm: $false |
  Start-VM

  I can rebuild the model, or something else, we must do this work.

  OR - is simply not the best way to configure the VM?  If not, what Sysprep?

  Good news, but first, I would really like to know where the log files are on which server to the OsCustomization process.

  I decided to reverse engineer and create a CSOS within vCeneter and once I got to work, I kept creating new CSO via PowerCli until I could get that to work, create a new virtual machine.  Once I got this to work, I have tryied to apply on a cloned vm, with no parameters. I got it works too.  I tried to go back to my original image, but I couldn't get this to work.  Something's wrong with this picture.  He wrath that the problem was related to the permissions on the local client.

  New OSCustomizationSpec - OrgName company OSType - Windows - ChangeSid-Server "vcenter.dom.com" - name PowerCliOnly4 - persistent administrator-Type FullName - AdminPassword! password123 - zone "Eastern (USA and Canada)" AutoLogonCount - 3 - domain dom dadmin - DomainUsername - DomainPassword! password123 NamingScheme - vm-Description "PowerCli Use only" - confirm: $false

  Get-OSCustomizationNicMapping - OSCustomizationSpec PowerCliOnly4 | Game-OSCustomizationNicMapping - Position 1 - IpMode UseStaticIP - IpAddress 10.10.10.98 - 255.255.255.0 - DefaultGateway 10.10.10.1 Dns subnet - mask "10.10.10.10","10.10.10.11" "-confirm: $false

  This seems to be very picky.  Because the area is one of the parameters, you cannot put it in the DomainUsername, no dom\dadmin. The part that I really want to know how to get more, is what happens if your vm has a different local administrator as the administrator account.  It turns out that FullName - is not the account that it to connect locally with tires. When I created the vCenter Medtronic Chondroitin, I put 'me' in the name and information of the Organization and that's what was settled in the FullName property:

  Name: PowerCliOnlyM
  Type: persistent
  ServerId: /VIServer = dom\[email protected]: 443.
  Server: vcenter.dom.com
  LastUpdate: 24/09/2014 13:33:19
  DomainAdminUsername: dadmin NO dom/dadmin here!
  DomainUsername: dadmin
  Description: PowerCli use only, done manually in vCenter.
  AutoLogonCount: 3
  ChangeSid: true
  DeleteAccounts: false
  DnsServer:
  DnsSuffix:
  Domain: vsi
  Full name: me
  GuiRunOnce:
  NamingPrefix:
  NamingScheme: Vm
  OrgName: CompanyTU
  OSType: Windows
  ProductKey:
  Time zone: (USA and Canada)
  Working Group:
  LicenseMode: NotSpecified
  LicenseMaxConnections:
  EncryptionKey: {-126, 3, 48, 108...}
  ExtensionData: VMware.Vim.CustomizationSpecItem
  ID: PowerCliOnlyM
  UID: /VIServer = vsi\[email protected]: 443/OSCustomizationSpec = PowerCliOnlyM /.
  Client: VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.VimClient
  AdminPassword: w
  DomainAdminPassword: N
  DomainPassword: N

  DNS: {10.10.10.10, 10.10.10.11}
  Wins                  :
  SpecId: PowerCliOnlyM
  Spec: PowerCliOnlyM
  SpecType: persistent
  NetworkAdapterMac:
  Position: 1
  IPMode: UseStaticIP
  IP address: 10.10.10.98
  Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
  DefaultGateway: 10.10.10.1
  AlternateGateway:
  VCApplicationArgument:
  ID: /VIServer = dom\[email protected]: 443/OSCustomizationNicMapping = OSCustomizationNicMappingImpl-PowerCliOnlyM-persistent-1.
  UID: /VIServer = dom\[email protected]: 443/OSCustomizationNicMapping = OSCustomizationNicMappingImpl-PowerCliOnlyM-persistent-1.
  ExtensionData: VMware.Vim.CustomizationAdapterMapping
  Client: VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Impl.V1.VimClient
  Version: 1

  I think that it is good to know that the virtual machine reboot 4 or 5 times as it goes through this process.  It breaks is you try and do something for the virtual machine that interrupt the process.  I don't know that I'll think more questions in a second.

  In addition, it cost he had some problems with the put between quotation marks, single or double around the password, but I did not check this again, I just know that once I took them, he began to work.  I ran on other issues while testing as I was using a single IP address, so if I do not disable the test VM, the following would not work because of the conflct network, maybe I shouldn't admit that... lol

• IP not set to start the virtual machine

  Environment: ESX 4 server, hosting VMware Studio 2.0 (final version), will deploy device created in the same ESX host.

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  I was not yet able to determine if my wait will not, but I expected that my VM would be marketing it would have an assigned IP address already if I finish the network settings section in the build settings. But when I start my VM, it starts with IP = 0.0.0.0.

  I'm going to network Type = static and by filling in all the details for the IP, mask subnet, gateway, DNS 1 and 2. It seems that they are used when the virtual machine is in 'construction' on the host, but I'm not entirely sure about this.

  In the OVF IP assignment settings, I tried selecting OVF environment, but have not set of OVF properties (I don't think that this should be mandatory if I am already addressing in the build settings).

  After construction, into my vSphere Client (ESX4), I chose the file & gt; Deploy the template OVF... & gt; Deploy from URL and paste the URL of the virtual machine built recently. I start the virtual machine and watch the console screen boot and load the operating system. IP address is never assigned and the console device is displayed with IP = 0.0.0.0.

  I then have to connect with the image, manually assign the IP settings and then everything works. I expect this happen at boot time so that my firstbootscript can take advantage of the assigned IP address.

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  Maybe I go about it the wrong way, but my usecase is as follows:

  Build a VM & gt; Distribute the VM on end user & gt;  end user deploys on ESX and chooses address IP & gt; end user boots VM for the first time & gt; firstbootscript runs automatically

  Am I missing something? Can I have different expectations about how IP assignment is supposed to work? I read about IP Pools, but this isn't an option in my vSphere Client.

  Property of the FVO is the best option to set an IP address.

  Long back for Linux OS, I have written a shell script to set the IP address and the hostname in firstboot Virginia you can try this for your going here is the link for the same thing.

  http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-10953

  In the OS from VMware Studio tab you can paste this script in the script firstboot.

  First of all, please run this script manually and then use it in VMware Studio firstboot.

• If I set up a virtual machine set up all the parameters that I can then install what I set up on my virtual machine to hardware actuall?

  Well, I think that I said in the question is it possible?

  Welcome to invite her - are you talking about copying the system of the physical machine? If you are so not because the virtual hardware is different then the physical hardware.

• vCAC 6.1 NSX workflow add virtual machines to security do not launch group

  Someone had a similar problem?

  I have my full vCNS.SecurityGroup.Names but the workflow in orchestrator will not start... it's strange because it works perfectly in our test environment.

  It's almost as if he does not see the property in time...

  Can provide more information if necessary

  See you soon

  Grrrr @ my network team.

  Detective Conan :-)

• Create an alert only rule on the virtual machines in a Service

  I'm under vFoglight 6.7.1. I set of services including virtual machines. I want to change the rules, such as disk space, to pull it from the virtual machines in this alert service. This would allow me to define groups for different email alerts. Someone has an idea how to do this?

  Hello Chris,

  Hope this helps https://support.quest.com/SolutionDetail.aspx?id=SOL88998

  Sincerely,

  Prasad Gadgil

• Limit a group only port to be added to virtual machines with the role

  Hello!

  We have two 5.1 (soon to 5.5) Vmware ESXi clusters to total 10 hosts. We are setting up the new virtual machines for the Department of finance where they want to ensure that a level 1 technical support cannot access. On the side of the virtual machine, it's easy enough - but we want to make them a regular technician can also put a virtual machine on the portgroup (and VLAN) that these machines will be also on.

  Is there a way to limit a single portgroup to be assigned to any virtual computer through roles?

  Thanks in advance!

  His quiet easily. Go to vCenter.--> Home---> Networking.

  Select the Portgroup where you want to restrict users. Go to tab permissions, do a right click and add permissions.

  Add all users and groups that should not have access to this and give as no access. They would never know that there

• How to make Virtual Machines for the username or profile?

  We have a laboratory of about 25 computers and a Dell 8925 Blade Server in the back running Esxi 5.0. I installed on each workstation client vSphere and have implemented several usernames for students. Everyone can connect to client vSphere very well of their workstations. The question I have is that if a user creates a virtual, any computer user who connects the vSphere client can see, navigate and edit this VM. I'm looking for a way to make the profile of the specific virtual machine, so that users can only see and access the virtual machines that they have created. Is this possible with the vSphere Hypervisor or should I buy a different package?

  My mistake, I was thinking about a licensed copy of vSphere with vCenter. In your case, the permissions must be set on the individual virtual machines.

  Click a virtual machine > permissions tab > add users

  If you want to use Active Directory authentication rather than accounts of the local host, you can go to

  Click Home > Configuration > Authentication Services

  And establish a relationship with your domain. You can then apply ad users/groups to the VM permissions.

  See you soon

• No network connection between the virtual machines on different hosts ESXi

  I have several 5.0 ESXi hosts in a cluster managed by vCenter Server 5 and I have network problems:

  1. [Host A] running a virtual machine can ping any other computer virtual running on the [host A] great!
  2. A virtual machine running on host [B] can ping any other virtual machine running on [B] home - very well!
  3. [host A] (from the ESXi console) can ping any virtual machine running on [B] home - even better!
  4. [B] home (from the ESXi console) can ping any virtual machine running [host A] - beautiful set!
  5. A virtual machine running [host A] can not ping any virtual computer running on host [B] and vice versa - bad, very bad!

  So basically the problem is that the virtual machines can communicate on hosts. It is a major problem that I need to fix, for obvious reasons.

  Networking on all hosts is configured exactly the same way: a unique and standard vSwitch with a pair of gigabit network cards grouped, vmkernels configured for the vMotion, NFS and network management and a group of ports configured for the VIRTUAL local area network used by the VMs. (vMotion works fine on hosts, storage vMotion works very well too.) All virtual machines are servers Windows (2003 and 2008).

  Reason #3 and #4 above, my assumption is that #5 must be the result of an ESXi/vCenter configuration issue and not a problem with the switches of material upstream. Is this a reasonable assumption?

  Whatever it is, can anyone offer suggestions on how can I fix? It is quite annoying as I'm pretty sure that these hosts are configured in the same manner as those of our production cluster, which does not at all these problems!

  Thanks in advance for any help you guys can provide.

  To be honest, it looks like a problem with your physical network-

  How is the physical network configured - are NIC connects it to the same physical switches? Are the virtual machines on the same subnet? If this is not the case, they are able to ping the gateway sbnet? Can you piing host IP address from the virtual machines?

  I also moved it to a forum more approiate.

• vCenter Orchestrator - Clone virtual machine with a name like VM_Date

  Hello

  I have try the Workflow "Clone virtual machine, no customization. It works very well but I would like to change settings (cloned virtual machine name), but I don't know how I could do this.

  I would put the cloned vm name: vm_date like this CHDCVSCT0001_31_08_2011.

  Is someone can help me?

  Thanks in advance

  Good day

  Best regards

  Christophe Simond

  No prob. Scripting Self is always the best way to learn

• Migration of a virtual machine or a new physical box vCenter?

  Recently, I renewed my license for ESX 3.x for vSphere license keys.  I am now looking to upgrade my hosts of ESX 3.5 u5 to vSphere.  The vCenter esx 3.5 database is hosted on a physical SQL 2000 Server.  I bought the license for MS SQL 2005, but I don't want to do a upgrade inplace on the area physical virtual Center for many reasons that are not part of this community.  So now that I'm at a crossroads, set up a new virtual machine on the esx 3.5 existing hosts for installing vCenter and SQL 2005 to restore the existing database of vc to?  Or should I look to buy a new physical server to dedicate to vCenter and the database to MS SQL 2005 to vCenter?

  In my environment, I have 3 ESX host running on the blades with a total of 10 VM operation.  In the future, I'm looking to virtualize a couple of SQL boxes once I get running vSphere.  If you were me what would you do with vCenter?

  like saying it will "eat your own dog food".

  For us, we have 9 instances of vCenter and all run as a virtual machine, with the exception of 3. When that get-enviornment upgrade vSphere4, vCenter Server VM.

  This facility is fully supported and works a lot.  In addition, you will receive HA/DRS.  I would say affecting your restart your VM vCenter high priority.

  This is a good document as well

  http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-11197

• get data on the performance of the virtual machine

  Hello community,

  I am trying to obtain performance data from a virtual machine using the following code:

  //create start & stop time 
  var end = new Date(); // now
  var start = new Date();
  start.setTime(end.getTime() - 3600000); // 1h before end
  //create a querySpec for one entity
  var querySpec = new Array();
  querySpec.push(new VcPerfQuerySpec());
  querySpec[0].entity = VM.reference; //set entity of workflow VM
  querySpec[0].startTime = start;
  querySpec[0].endTime = end;
  //creteate PerfMetricID for one metric
  var PM = new VcPerfMetricId();
  PM.counterId = 2;
  PM.instance = "";
  var arrPM = new Array();
  arrPM.push(PM);
  querySpec[0].metricId = arrPM; //assign PerfMetric to querySpec
  querySpec[0].intervalId = 20;
  querySpec[0].format = "csv";
  
  var CSV = VM.sdkConnection.perfManager.queryPerf(querySpec);  // query PerformanceManager
  System.log (CSV);// show if type is OK
  //show properties
  System.log (CSV.entity);
  System.log (CSV.value);
  System.log (CSV.sampleInfoCSV);
  System.log (CSV.dynamicProperty);
  

  The workflow is valid and functional. But there is no data. Here's the log produced by the workflow:

  [2010-11-12 12:12:53.742] [I] DynamicWrapper (Instance) : [VcPerfEntityMetricCSV]-[http://class com.vmware.vim.vi4.PerfEntityMetricCSV|http://class com.vmware.vim.vi4.PerfEntityMetricCSV] -- VALUE : com.vmware.vim.vi4.PerfEntityMetricCSV@beb35d25
  [2010-11-12 12:12:53.742] [I] undefined
  [2010-11-12 12:12:53.742] [I] undefined
  [2010-11-12 12:12:53.742] [I] undefined
  [2010-11-12 12:12:53.742] [I] undefined
  

  I also tried .format querySpec [0] = 'normal '; -same result.

  Where is my fault? I'm on the right track?

  Pls support me in obtaining data on performance, Thx.

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  Kind regards, Andreas Diemer

  visit http://www.vcoteam.info & http://mighty-virtualization.blogspot.com/

  SERVUS Andreas!

  I think I got to the next step:

  perfManager.queryPerf (...) returns a table, not the CSV values itself. Therefore, pop() data in the result table.

  A change in your code that returns a large amount of data in my lab:

  var CSVArr = VM.sdkConnection.perfManager.queryPerf (querySpec);  query PerformanceManager

  System.log (CSVArr) ;// show if the type is OK

  view properties

  var CSV = CSVArr.pop ();

  System.log (CSV.entity);

  System.log (CSV.value);

  System.log (CSV.sampleInfoCSV);

  System.log (CSV.dynamicProperty);

  But I do not know why the System.log (CSVArr) does not show the array as a type... (maybe because there is only one item!)

  Edit: found the answer:

  ... - VALUE: com.vmware.vim.vi4.PerfEntityMetricCSV@229650a8 versus

  ..... VALUE: com.vmware.vim.vi4.PerfMetricSeriesCSV@5d7f26

  "Once again learned!"

  BTW: I found the idea with the table on the slide 59 of this presentation:

  http://communities.VMware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/1371233-29453/vSphereAPI_PerfMonitoring.PDF

  Hope this helps

  See you soon,.

  Joerg

  PS: How can you add not formatted 'verbatim' sourcecode-style here in the forums?