Set up a pre-production environment...
My current employer has a pre-production environment that is being updated nightly from the production. I started to look at how it is done (powerCLI script) and I'm trying to make things better.
Here's how it works.
A snapshot is taken of production servers, which 'freeze' the base vmdk disk. A new virtual machine is created for pre-production and it uses the 'frozen' drive to the production server database, because it is not persistent mode, clean disc. Of course, the virtual machine is connected to a group of isolated ports. Basically, this allows the team dev/infra to have an identical copy of the production servers anytime (just run the refresh script).
While this works very well, I have a problem on using disks of production for this purpose. Usually, I prefer to leave only one production and complete clones have either fully provisioned pre-production environment.
Suppose I'm onboard with happens like that and I want to automate the creation of these reservoirs of pre-production. Right now they are built manually to the new servers, and then the refresh script.
Refresh the script:
(A) pre-production shutdown server
(B) remove the snapshot on the production server (committing the latest changes to the base vmdk)
(C) create new snapshot to the production server (freeze the base vmdk)
(D) Power Server pre-production (with validated changes)
This script is scheduled every night to start the next day with a cool environment. Another advantage of this approach that is not persistent, it is that a simple reboot brings the pre-production back to a clean version (if tests are not doing well).
Issues related to the:
Is there a way to clone a virtual machine without the disc? This would make the easy creation of new servers in pre-production. Clone, log drives, change the port group. Fact.
Is there a better way to achieve that kind of result without this kind of 'false linked clones?
The following seems to work for me. A few notes:
- The virtual machine is cloned without any of its VMDK
- The new virtual machine is created on the same node of ESXi and store data as a source of VM (since you don't seem to have special requirements in this aspect)
- This script does not work for a virtual computer with RDM disks
$vmName = "sourceVM".
$vmClone = "cloneVM".
$folderName = "MyBlueFolder".
$vm = get-VM-name $vmName
$folder = get-file-name $folderName
$spec = new-Object - TypeName VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec
$spec. Location = New-Object - TypeName VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
$spec. Location.Datastore = $vm. ExtensionData.Datastore [0]
$spec. Location.Host = $vm. ExtensionData.Runtime.Host
$spec. Config = New-Object - TypeName VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
Get-disk hard - VM $vm | %{
$dev = new-Object - TypeName VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec
$dev. Device = $_. ExtensionData
$dev. Operation = [VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation]: remove
$dev. FileOperation = [VMware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpecFileOperation]: destroy
$Spec.Config.DeviceChange += $dev
}
$vm. ExtensionData.CloneVM_Task ($folder. ExtensionData.MoRef, $vmClone, $spec)
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