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• Counting of the virtual machines in a resource pool

  Hello

  I just want to know is how VM in resource pools.

  I tried to use this single line, but when I get the results, some are white.

  What follows is the only line that I used

  Get-resourcepool-location VMW-HACL01-BC9 | Where-Object - FilterScript {($_.)} Name - not "resources") - and ($_.) (Nom-ne "DUMMY-RP1")} | Select Name, @{N = "NumVM"; E={($_ | Get - VM). County}} | Sort-Object Name. Export-Csv-Path "C:\results\vmcount.csv" - NoTypeInformation

  1 VMW-HACL01-BC9 is the name of the cluster.

  2. I wanted to exclude the names of 'Resources' and "DUMMY-RP1" resource pool

  Here are the results I get

  Name                                                                                                              NumVM

  ----                                                                                                              -----

  CK-RP1                                                                                                                2

  CK-RP2                                                                                                                6

  CK-RP3                                                                                                                2

  GKK-RP1                                                                                                               7

  HAC-RP1                                                                                                               3

  HAC-RP2                                                                                                               3

  JP1 - RP1

  KAIGI-RP1                                                                                                             2

  TDA - RP1

  TES-RP1

  THX - RP1

  TIB-RP1                                                                                                               2

  TIB - RP2

  TIB-RP3                                                                                                               3

  TIB - RP4

  TIC-RP1                                                                                                               2

  TID-RP1                                                                                                               3

  TID-RP2                                                                                                               2

  TID - RPT

  TIJ-RP1                                                                                                               2

  TIJ-RP2                                                                                                               2

  TMA - RP1

  TMA - RP2

  TTT-RP3                                                                                                               3

  TTT-RP4                                                                                                               7

  some results are there, but some results are blank.

  How can I get good results? any help would be appreciated.

  I use vSphere PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2, Powershell 2.0

  Try like this

  Get-ResourcePool | Select Name, @{N="VM#";E={$_.ExtensionData.Vm.Count}}
  

  Of course, you can insert your Where clause.

• I've set up the virtual machine in win 7 Ultimate and put some data. Now when I try to connect it asks password and does not accept any password.

  Default password Machine virtual XP Mode

  I've set up the virtual machine in win 7 Ultimate and put some data. Now when I try to connect it asks password and does not accept any password. Please giveme the default password

  If you're talking about XP Mode the default password is XPMUser.  In general you can not use Windows without a password in Windows Virtual PC that you can with Virtual PC 2007 and before.  XPMUser is used only with the XP Mode virtual machine.  All other virtual machines requires a user created password.  If you have changed the password in XP Mode and forgotten, then you have to start over.

  Windows Virtual PC is based on virtual server rather than VPC and all virtual machines need a password.  If necessary, uninstall the integration features, start the virtual machine and create a password for the admin user.  Restart the virtual machine, and then reinstall the integration features.  You will not be able to access a virtual machine created by the user that has no password, while the integration features are installed.  Once you have everything right, that a virtual machine will not be asked a password if you are the admin user in Windows 7.

  @george1009,.

  Everything got?  :)

• Error: "VMware Workstation has suspended this virtual machine because the disk on which the virtual machine is stored is almost full."

  I get this error message:

  VMware Workstation has suspended this virtual machine because the disk on which the virtual machine is stored is almost full. To continue, free 1.3 GB of additional disk space.

  I read up on the subject and found that I have to re size a partition. Anyone know what it could be? I can't find anything that looks like it has something to do with VMware. Does anyone know what size and what file system is it?

  My OS:
  Tumbleweed OpenSUSE x 64

  Thanks in advance

  On more creative, my home and root file systems were not extended to my full disk space :^)

• resize the disk space on the virtual machine

  Hello!

  I have a small problem, when I converted a virtual machine on my esx server so I chose 14FR for the virtual machine.

  But I now realize that I need more space on the virtual machine. but the problem is that I stop the virtual machine and

  give more space but the does not get more space than any alcolated in diskmgmt. and there I have to

  make a new partition.

  Can I add a disc more on C: by do not format the drive? or can I add more disk space to a new partition

  (if I add 20 GB now and want to add 20 extra GB to the same partition in 2 months or something like that?) ??

  Thank you

  / R

  http://malaysiavm.com/blog/how-to-resize-Windows-2003-Server-virtual-disk-on-VMware-ESX/

  Here is the guide. Hope is useful.

  Craig

  vExpert 2009

  Malaysia, VMware communities - http://www.malaysiavm.com

• VMWare Fusion makes a break from the virtual machine because the disk is almost full.

  Is I myself am sitting at my computer this morning, I saw a message that says the guest system Windows XP Pro on my Mac Mini has been suspended.  Here is the message:

  "VMware Fusion has suspended this virtual machine because the disk on which the virtual machine is stored is almost full."

  I can't find a way to shut down Windows to resize hard disk space allocation.  I tried the Virtual Machine menu, but all the shut down/put off the power points are grayed out.

  Any ideas out there?

  You must read the message!

  BTW if force you the VM to the bottom you may corrupt the virtual system hard disk and or the VHD file and you need to just do as the message says and free up space on the OS X hard disk even if you temporarily move a few things on an external hard drive so that you can then reactivate the Virtual Machine and continue on the it.

• Is it necessary that the guest OS to support SSD if the file of the virtual machine is placed on an SSD?

  Dear,

  I have a plan to set up a file of the virtual machine on an SSD. The host system is windows 10 (on an other SSD, I'll use 2 SSD), it should support the SSD very well.  Then comes the question: should I also install an OS that needs support also guest SSD?

  My opinion is it does not matter since the disk i/o operation is made by host operating system, it is the host operating system which finally determin whick block data will be published (optimization of the disk).

  Am I wrong? Thank you.

  Sorry for the enigmatic answer...

  In your case, the answer is Yes: he cares about the type of media, while the virtual disk is a vmdk (virtual material treaty) and placed in an SSD.

  There are a few cases where you might use a physical disk directly to the virtual machine (called peripheral raw disk or RDM in vSphere environment).

  Concerning

• UEFI TBS tool running on the virtual machine

  I installed esxi5.0 with setting of the virtual machine to support UEFI BIOS. I tried to run TBS uefi (self-certification tool) on uefi shell but installation stop impossible to copy the file stallforkey.efi. However, on a normal physical machine, I am able to boot to efi shell and can install the tool even without any impact. I wonder why it does not work on a virtual machine. Thank you!

  Sorry I did not on this thread in a timely.  I try to help where I can, but it can be difficult to follow all this and make sure that I have the answer to everything.

  The driver that you have found is the right, and it seems that you have loaded correctly too.

  You should probably just use "reconnect" in the EFI Shell to disconnect our CTS volume FAT file system driver and connect the FAT file system driver that you have installed (which has a larger number of driver version, it should be preferred to our driver)... Then, you should have file name long support on the volume of the SCT.  There is some trick that is necessary in order to obtain the ID correct grip for the command "reconnect", or you can try of "reconnect - r", which will take a little longer to run.  You must ensure that the current the EFI Shell working directory is not on the file system you want to log.

  So you're on track with OVMF + qemu anyway, so I just after the above for the sake of completeness, and just in case you find yourself stuck and looking for yet another way forward.  Sorry again once I failed to reply to your message.

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• Clone the virtual machine to the local data store

  Hi all

  I'm looking to automate a task daily (or almost) of my friends with a small script with powercli.

  I'm trying to "backup" or to clone a virtual machine, I work in a storage of one of our servers.

  The servers are managed by a 5.1 vCenter and the machine is on a shared storage.

  From time to time, I clean, stop the machine, remove all snapshots and clone the virtual machine to one of the local server as a backup storage. So I put together a small script which almost works. It works as long as the target data store is a shared storage, but not with a local storage.

  I get always an error that claims it can not access the local data store and is not a permissions problem...

  Given that I can accomplish this via the customer without problem I thought it is possible via powercli too, or I'm wrong?

  My Script up to now:

  # Variables
  $VC = "vc.domain.com" #vCenter Server
  $User = "domain\user" #User
  $Pass = 'test123' #User PW
  $VMName = 'scripttest' #VM
  $BackupSuffix = "backup" #Suffix to add the name of VM to mark this as a backup
  $VmHost = "esx2.domain.com".
  $Datastore = 'ESX2-LocalData' #Datastore
  $BackupFolder = 'Backup' #Folder the VM gets classified

  
  

  # Register cmdlets to VMware
  

  If (-not (Get-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core - ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {}

  Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core

  }

  
  

  # Connect to the server

  SE connect-ViServer $VC - user $User-password $Pass

  
  

  # Remove the old clone

  $OldBackups = get - VM | WHERE {$_.} {Name: corresponds to '$VMName - $BackupSuffix'}

  If ($OldBackups - don't "")

  {

  If ($OldBackups.Count - gt 1)

  {

  Write-Host "better check! "Found several results:

  Foreach ($VM to $OldBackups)

  {

  Write-Host $VM. Name

  }

  }

  on the other

  {

  Remove-VM - VM $OldBackups - DeleteFromDisk-confirm: $false

  }

  }

  
  

  # Clone VM

  $VMInfo = get - VM $VMName | Get-View

  $CloneSpec = new-Object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec

  $CloneSpec.Snapshot = $VMInfo.Snapshot.CurrentSnaphshot

  $CloneSpec.Location = new-Object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec

  $CloneSpec.Location.Datastore = (get-Datastore-name $Datastore |) Get - View). MoRef

  $CloneSpec.Location.Transform = [Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateTransformation]: sparse

  $CloneFolder = $VMInfo.Parent

  $CloneName = "$VMName - $BackupSuffix".

  $TaskCloneID = $VMInfo.CloneVM_Task ($CloneFolder, $CloneName, $CloneSpec)

  
  

  # Check if the task is completed

  
  

  $Check = $false

  While ($Check - eq $false)

  {

  $Tasks = get-job | Select State, id | Where {$_.} State - eq "Running" - and $_. State - eq "pending"}

  ForEach ($Task in $Tasks)

  {

  If ($Task.id - eq $TaskCloneID)

  {$Check = $false}

  on the other

  {$Check = $true}

  }

  Start-Sleep 10

  }

  # Move clone to the backup folder

  Move-VM - VM '$VMName - $BackupSuffix' - Destination $BackupFolder

  
  

  # Disconnect

  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  Can you show us the complete error message you get?

  BTW, the clone step can be replaced by the New-VM cmdlet with the setting of the virtual machine.

• Unique ID of the Virtual Machine

  Nice day!

  We are

  software development APIs and the end user for Microsoft Windows OS and unfortunately

  We are dealing with the problems of piracy of software on virtual machines. We would like to

  ask questions about the ability of unique identifier Machine virtual Vmware that we can use

  during our method of licensing to prevent software piracy. In our case, the

  Black ice software can be installed more than once on the same Virtual Machine

  processor. Could please inform us how we can (if it is possible) check you

  the setting of the Virtual Machine that is unique and does not belong to any other VM

  computers running on the same processor (s)?

  Thank you!

  Kind regards

  Robert

  <! Session data>

  Hello

  You can try another approach to the UUID of the virtual machine. There are several problems with this:

  -To get this info from the virtual machine, you must point the PowerCLI script to a management as vCenter server. This may alter much a security policy. For my part could never allow that.

  -Second is not directly queryable within the virtual machine itself.

  I suggest you watch the getinfo VMware Backdoor options to see if something that you can use in that it is directly queriable within the virtual machine and can not be disabled at the moment. Output may be limited, but it cannot be deleted. This is commonly called RedPill and there is a lot of code out there that will help you to access the backdoor.

  Best regards
  Edward L. Haletky VMware communities user moderator, VMware vExpert 2009

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• Optimal code to retrieve all the virtual machines in a ResourcePool

  Hi all

  What is optimum (fastest) encode during extraction of all virtual machines in a Resource Pool?

  I have this:

  $myVMs = get - vm | where {$_.} ResourcePool - eq "MYRP"}

  [1]

  Is this actually retrieve ALL virtual machines first and then filter on the second resource pool (in which case it would be 'slow')?

  I also have this:

  $myRP = get-resourcepool "MYRP".

  $myRP.extensiondata.vm

  This generates the MoRef VM.

  [2]

  How do I use get - view then pull only information on those specific MoRefs and has this method might be considerably better than the get - vm method detailed above?

  Notice-EEG - viewtype property VirtualMachine MoRef does not work

  Kind regards

  marc0

  Hi Marco,.

  (1) Yes, this call will be all first retrieve all virtual machines and then filter on the resource pool property.

  I suggest using the following call which retrieves only the virtual machines in the desired resource pool. This will give you better performance:

  $resourcePool = get-ResourcePool "MYRP".

  Get-VM-location $resourcePool

  # Or you can use this:

  Get-VM-location "MYRP".

  (2) you can use Get-View to retrieve objects by MoRef like this:

  $vmViews = get-view-Id $myRP.extensiondata.vm

  # If you need VM objects rather than their point of view, then you must also do the following:

  $vms = $vmViews | Get-VIObjectByVIView

  Kind regards

  Dimitar

• Monitor the IOPS / s in a Resource Pool?

  Hello world

  I am quite new to vROM and just get your feet wet for me.  I've been delving into the book "Mastering Operations Manager vRealize" useful and which was helpful, but I'm trying to understand an important piece on:

  We have pools of different resources for different departments within our Organization, and I try to get a good graph for IOPS / s in each resource pool.  I was able to get a list of all virtual machines in a resource pool by creating a dashboard with the widget resource pool game object selector, then use "Diagnose e/s disk of the Virtual Machine list" view to see all the virtual machines within the list of resources and then for the summary allows you to SUM add them all together.  This gives me a number, but does nothing for this over time.  I'd like to be able to see that number over the next few months (even if it means just go ahead of data today onward, not historical).

  Any ideas?  I think I must be missing something, like the Resource Pool looks like it would be a good way to measure the impact of the drive.  Folder of the Virtual Machine might work also, but is not as clean as I would like.

  Hello world

  Right after I got this resolved so I thought I would mention it here in case anyone else is curious.  It has to do with the SuperMetrics.

  The formula I created is as follows:

  SUM (${adapterkind = VMWARE, resourcekind = VirtualMachine, attribute is virtualDisk | commandsAveraged_average, depth = 1})

  It takes the sum of all virtual machines to a level under the resource pool.  I also used average and Max values, because this helps to show trends and you have aberrant VMs eating a ton of IOPS / s.

  I received lots of help from Iwan Rahabok virtual red point.  Specifically, this thread here: http://virtual-red-dot.info/any-vm-abusing-your-iaas-by-doing-excessive-workload/

• 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

• Physical disk how can I add in the Virtual Machine?

  I am trying to set up a network of storage, but I discovered it is there is a limitation for the addition of physical hard disks in the virtual machine.

  I have 1 virtual hard disk for the operating system (SCSI), an invited so I try to add more than 4 disks, but it should not add more than 3. They showed that (IIRC).

  I try to add 4 x 1 TB as physical hard disk in virtual machine hard disks, but it says that I must remove one to add.

  1. in the settings of the Virtual Machine, is there a difference between (SCSI) (IDE) and why are the physical disks (IDE)?

  2. What is the limitation of total hard drives under the VM settings, four?

  Johwwy

  physical disks can be detected such as IDE or SCSI - depends on the drivers used by the host

  SATA in ide-compat mode is used as IDE

  SATA AHCI mode is detected as SCSI

  It is possible to rewrite the descriptions after their creation.

  It is a little advanced - see my notes

  http://sanbarrow.com/VMDK-basics.html#changeadapter

  for a start, it may be necessary to also change the geometry... ask first so uncertain.

  I think the limit of physical disks that can be attached to a virtual machine is 64 = 4 x 15 - scsi and IDE 4-disc drives

  _________________________

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

• VCB snap only the disk system to a virtual machine.

  I use as my ESX 3.5 VC 2.5 backup and Avamar.  I do backup with VCB 1.5.

  I have a virtual machine with a 20 GB OS drive and 500 GB data disk (linux).

  I would like to VCB the only BONES of some of my vm and not others drive much more major data on the disks on the virtual machine.

  Is there a way to only snap (a disk) the smallest disk to the virtual machine OS so I don't have to have a disk of temp VCB is huge?

  I can't wait to snap 520 GB just to get the 20 GB that I need.

  I realize that avamar can filter up to only enter the 20 but it's after the breakup, I don't want to break the 500.

  Thank you

  You can set the data to persistent disk independent. In this way, that it is not affected by snapshots.

  Take a look at http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/11/03/vcb-and-independent-disks/ (and its links). This is an old article, but it should still work.

  André