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• Stop virtual machines with or without VMware tools installed

  So after a power failure major where I work has taken place where the batteries of the UPS only ran about 10 minutes and the emergency generator didn't kick in, I was put in charge of writing a script that starts to stop the virtual machines and servers in a given cluster. Now that I am relatively new to the environment here, so I don't know if all the virtual machines have the tools are installed. I want to cover all bases and the virtual machines that do not have the tools installed. My script done now is it initiates closing the comments on all the virtual machines and check every 10 seconds to 120 seconds for virtual machines go offline if after 120 seconds, there are even virtual machines online, it issues a shutdown command on all servers that have not stopped. Now, he'll catch all the virtual machines, but I don't want the machine have to wait 2 minutes before totality if it can be avoided (remember that this script will be executed when the data center goes to the power of the UPS for every watt account to keep critical systems online). the script throws an error when it cannot stop because no tool is installed, so I thought I could use a try/catch block to catch the error and send just a detroit of turning control of these VMs off. I tried to do, but without success.

  Is it possible that I can either catch the error, or a stop all virtual machines that do not have the tools installed?

  Attached is my code, maybe you can spot what can I do to stop the virtual machines without tools within the do / while loop when errors occur first.

  Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
  $server = $args [0]
  $cluster = $args [1]
  SE connect-VIServer-Server $server
  $counter = 0
  {}
  If (Get-Cluster-name $cluster | get - vm | where {$_.powerstate - eq 'receiving'}) {}
  If ($counter - eq 0) {}
  Get-Cluster-name $cluster | get - vm | where {$_.powerstate - eq "receptor"} | stop-VMGuest-confirm: $false
  }
  Write-Host "VMs are on waiting" (120-$counter)"seconds"
  $counter = $counter + 10
  Sleep 10
  }
  }
  While ($counter - 110)-or ((Get-VMHost |)) Get - VM | where {$_.powerstate - eq "receptor"}) .count)-No 0
  If ($counter = 120) {}
  Write-Host "certain virtual machines did not not stop properly, tension now.
  Get-Cluster-name $cluster | get - vm | where {$_.powerstate - eq "receptor"} | Stop-VM-confirm: $false
  }
  Write-Host "Putting servers into maintenance mode."
  Get-cluster-name $cluster | Get-vmhost | where {$_.state - eq 'connected'} | Game-VMHost-State "Maintenance".
  Sleep 10
  Write-Host "stop servers."
  Get-cluster-name $cluster | Get-vmhost | where {$_.state - eq 'Maintenance'} | Stop-VMHost-confirm: $false
  Disconnect-VIServer-confirm: $false

  Try something like this

  $vm = Get-VM
  $vm | where {$_.Guest.State -eq "Running"} | Shutdown-VMGuest -Confirm:$false $vm | where {$_.Guest.State -eq "NotRunning"} | Stop-VM -Confirm:$false
  

  Virtual machines running VMware tools will get a judgment of comments, while the virtual machines that do not have the VMware tools running, will get a poweroff.

• Stop the virtual machine

  I'm looking for a script to stop vm...

  Script works fine, but I have a few Questions or details

  $csv = import-csv C:\xxx.csv

  Foreach ($line in $csv)

  {

  Write-Host “====================================================================”

  Write-Host "$line treatment".

  $vminfo = get-view-Id ($line.vm) USER.USER

  Write-Host "checking the VMware Tools on $line... »

  # If we have the VMware tools installed

  If ($vminfo.config.Tools.ToolsVersion - eq 0)

  {

  Write-Host "($line.vm) don't have vmware tools installed, strong power this one.

  # Hard power off.

  Stop-VM ($line.vm)-confirm: $false

  }

  on the other

  {

  write-host "I'll try to stop $vm.

  # Turn off with elegance

  Get - VM ($line.vm) | Stop-VMGuest-confirm: $false | Out-Null

  }

  }

  1. my code below what I'm missing / or hurt?

  $vminfo = get-view-Id ($line.vm) USER.USER

  Write-Host "checking the VMware Tools on $line... »

  2. Tools a lot of combination

  Tools installed - but not running

  tools not install

  Are that both will have to stop-vm?

  3.

  I got a simple code, it will cover the tools stuff?

  $vm = Get-VM
  $vm | where {$_. Comments . State -eq "Running"} | Shutdown-VMGuest -confirm:$false
  $vm | where {$_. Comments . State -eq "NotRunning"} | Stop-VM -Confirm:$false

  
  

  4. I want to stop 50 virtual machines simultaneously, how the

  
  

  Your script seems to be ok.

  When the VMware tools are installed you can do a gracefull shutdown (Stop-VMGuest) within the guest where OS the obligation for the VMware tools.

  The next option is to stop the virtual machine (VM-Stop), with what would be the power button on a physical computer.

  No phasing out of the BONES and a potential risk on the corruption of the OS.

  With switch RunAsync that the cmdlet returns immediately, it will not wait until the underlying vSphere method is complete.

  The method will continue, but in the background.

  You should check these tasks to background (Get-task), to monitor the successful completion.

  To manage VMS in batches of 25 and wait 60 seconds between batches, you could do something like that

  $vms = get - VM

  $step = 25

  $start = 0

  for ($loop = 0; $loop - the ([math]: ceiling ($vms.)) Step Count / $)-1); $loop ++) {}

  $vms [$start... ($Start+$Step-1)] | where {$_.} Guest.State - eq "Running"} | Stop-VMGuest-confirm: $false - RunAsync

  $vms [$start... ($Start+$Step-1)] | where {$_.} Guest.State - eq "Keep"} | Stop-VM-confirm: $false - RunAsync

  sleep 60

  $start += $step

  }

• Commands to start and stop a virtual machine hosted by VMware player

  Where can I find the commands to start and stop a virtual machine hosted by VMware player on a host Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)?

  I need to start and stop the virtual computer from a script as I could do this by selecting the ' power on ' and his 'guest stop' or at least 'power off' options of the GUI of VMware player.

  If a control interface is not available, is available if I update to VMware Workstation?

  Concerning

  Marius

  With the player, the VIX API is a separate download (on the same page you downloaded the install drive in), so I guess you will have to install the separate package to use it.  But it's pretty easy to do...

• Can how fast I get a virtual network adapter on a computer server VMware vmware tools installed w/o?

  Hello

  I use a custom Linux VM on a Linux VMware Server host. That my Linux VM is on measurement, I don't want to install VMware tools on my virtual machine. My question is without VMware tools installed on my virtual machine, is it possible for my virtual machine to connect at gigabit speeds. My server host has a gigabit network connection.

  Thank you

  Varun

  without vmware-tools, make sure you that you use the E1000 nic in the comments and not the obsolete AMD

  Check with the vmx file and make sure that you have

  ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000".

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• 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!

• Cannot install the machine virtual linux 2 TB in size in esxi 5.5

  Cannot install the machine virtual linux 2 TB in size in esxi 5.5

  VM will be restarting inbetween fixing and explains the operating system not found.

  Please help me on this

  Thank you

  Anand

  What Linux distro are you trying to install?

• virtual machine hardware upgrade and tools with a script

  Hello

  I'm looking for the script to upgrade multiple machines virtual vmware tools and upgrading of hardware version in a script after you run the script below.

  Get - VM | Select ' Name,@{N='ToolStatus; E={$_. ExtensionData.Guest.ToolsStatus}} |

  C:\Tools-Report.csv - UseCulture - NoTypeInformation csv export

  Any help on this will be appreciated.

  Thank you

  vm2014

  In fact, that should be enough

  Import-Csv C:\Tools-Report.csv - UseCulture |

  where {$_.} {ToolStatus - don't [VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineToolsStatus]: toolsOk} | %{

  $vm = get - VM $_. Name

  Update-tools - VM $vm - NoReboot

  }

• vCenter as a VM - install sql on the same machine virtual or separate?

  Hello

  What is the best practice when you install Virtual Center as a virtual machine?

  Can I install SQL server on the same VM or install a 2nd virtual computer for sql?

  I plan to install on the virtual machine itself, but I would like to know if there is a better method.

  Thank you!

  Hello

  I have renewed the link, you're right it was wrong

  This link will redirect you "vCenter 5.0 installation best practices.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2003790

  In addition, SQL 2008 R2 Express support size by 10 GB database.

  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/SQLExpress/archive/2010/04/21/database-size-limit-increased-to-10gb-in-SQL-Server-2008-R2-Express.aspx

  Sincerely.

• 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

• Stop the virtual machine of comments using command line on esx 3.5

  does anyone know to stop the virtual computer prompt using command-line on ESX 3.5

  Take a look at this thread for instructions in detail: http://communities.vmware.com//message/1219151#1219151

  =========================================================================

  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009

  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

  http://Twitter.com/lamw

• Machine virtual "disappear."

  If that heppened for me twice now on two different Macs.

  I'm doing a VM of Vista Enterprise x 86 and so I create a virtual machine with 1 GB RAM and 80 GB of virtual disk. The installation works fine, and I install VMware tools. I run updates all that much good. When I finished, the virtual machine file is about 10 GB or more. Once I did, I stopped the virtual machine and quit fusion. I return to the merger and try to run the virtual machine, and it does not start because it cannot find "BOOTMGR" and then I look at the file of the VM and it's 202MB! Somehow, the right VM data disappears and is actually dleted because my hard drive has 10 GB of space back. As I said, it happened to me twice on 2 the two fusion 3.0.2 running Mac.

  If you can help that would be great because I kind of need my virtual machines!

  Just confirmed this as the solution.

  Squeeze is the cause of this problem.

• printer virtual (ThinPrint) do not install on Windows 2000 comments

  Does anyone have virtual print (ThinPrint) running for a guest W2K?

  I refer to the version of ThinPrint that comes with the drive.

  I can't seem to get installed it.

  I use VMWare Player 12.1.0 - 3272444 and VMWare tools 10.0.5.520 and attempted a "Typical" VMWare Tools installation on a W2K guest under a host of Intel 64 - bit Windows 10.  I used the admin on both sides.  The guest of W2K has disabled UAC and is always admin.

  During installation, I received the following error dialog:

  RUNDLL

  Error loading tpvmmon.dll

  the specified procedure is found not

  The printer user interface

  Printer rundll command failed.

  Command: /ia /f "C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMWare\Drivers

  \Virtual Printer\TPOG3\OEMPRINT. INF' / r ' THIRD: "/m «TP release»»»

  Gateway"/h"Intel"/v"Windows 2000 ".

  Was asked to OK the absence of signatures on the stuff of ThinPrint.    After that the VMWare Tools installed I have restarted the prompt.

  The following log files resulted in the prompt:

  c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMWare\Logs

  vminst.log_20160329_080638.log

  vmmsi.log_20160329_080638.log

  c:\WINNT\Temp\vmware-vmsvc.log

  c:\WINNT\Temp\vmware-vmusr.log

  Things that I found disturbing in the vminst.log_2016...

  2016-03-29 07:50:43 | tools-build-3228253 | Attempt to launch "rundll32 tpvmmon.dll, InstHelper install - q."

  2016-03-29 07:50:51 | tools-build-3228253 | Child came out with code 0

  The above command is probably what caused the first error dialog box during installation, but it's not really report this error to the

  install the program.  If I try the command to the admin command prompt I get the same error 'procedure cannot be found.

  I used a dumper of export in the dll and the entry point is actually spelled InstHelperW.   I tried with the extra W on the command

  online, but I got the same thing.

  2016-03-29 07:57:31 | tools-build-3228253 | Attempt to launch "install"C:\Program VMware Tools\TPAutoConnSvc.exe"- q-".

  2016-03-29 07:57:31 | tools-build-3228253 | Create process failed: error 193

  2016-03-29 07:57:31 | tools-build-3228253 | Attempt to launch "install"C:\Program VMware Tools\TPVCGateway.exe"- q-".

  2016-03-29 07:57:31 | tools-build-3228253 | Create process failed: error 193

  Try the above commands, a command admin line causes "not a Win32 application valid."

  Things that I found disturbing in the vmware - vmsvc.log...

  [Mar 29 07:58:02.953] [Warning] [vmtoolsd] Plugin 'guestInfo.dll' has no opening: 'C:\Program VMware Tools\plugins\vmsvc\guestInfo.dll': the specified procedure could not be found...

  ...

  [Mar 29 08:06:39.757] [critical] [Glib] file...... \.. \glib\gmain.c: line 2849: assertion ' loop! = NULL' failed

  I tried to install the printer via the Add-a-Assistant printer.   ThinPrint is present in the list of printers.   I give COM1:, etc., but in the end is just says "failed".

  I if "install" from the context menu of the OEMPRINT. The system INF flashes just to me.  No dialog box.  No errors.  No printer.

  The only thing left to try is to create a new VM W2K and see if the problem persists.   I'll post back with the results.

  Dear diary, I ended up coming back to VMWare Player 7... and printing, I'm happy to report. I'm not sure whether the installed printer drivers are product of ThinPrint.  That they are not listed as such.  But the VMWare tools install break thru without a hitch and I my print feature back.

  Remind you it's easier said than done.  Here's the problem: VMWare Player 7 is still available for download from VMWare, but after install you it and it phones home page for VMWare tools, it always indicates that the update server is not responding.  According to the Wiki for VMWare Player, version 7 is no longer supported.

  So how do you get the tools?

  I tried to download the tools. TAR that VMWare offers, I believe than version9 dot something.  I had to find a way to decompress.  (That Windows uses. TRE?)  Then I had to make one. ISO to it so that I could mount it and present it to the player.   But it did not work.  He ran quickly and completely in silence and produces newspapers, but I couldn't figure out why she did nothing.    I have to admit that I do not exactly trying to decipher the newspapers set up.

  So on to plan B, ugh: I downloaded the demo of VMWare Workstation 7 Pro, installed, saved the windows.iso that accompanies it, uninstalled, reinstalled VMWare Player 7, put the windows.iso in the root of VMWare Player installation on the host computer, modified my version 7 W2K VM settings so that my virtrual DVD player had the ISO mounted, booted up the virtual machine then I started the installation (setup.exe) tools of the virtual DVD.   (You mind, making a Manage / reinstall VMWare Tools will just try to shout to the update servers and fail.)

  So I'll never be able to update the VMWare Tools, but it's OK because everything seems to be working.  I will make just a point to save this windows.iso so I don't ever have to be in this position again.

  Just for the record, my exact versions are: VMWare Player 7.1.3 build 3206955 and VMWare Tools 8.4.9.30422.  The version of the tools is the one shipped with VMWare Workstation Pro 7.1.6 build 744570.

  So I guess it's just a case of VMWare takes a step backward on W2K.  Maybe they will fix it in the future.   Of course I'm probably one of only a handful of people still need run W2K, so I won't hold my breath.

  Thanks, Continuum, to try to help.

• PowerCLI: Stop your Virtual Infrastructure

  Hi guys,.

  Today we had a power failure and we were force to a part of the closure of our virtual infrastructure to saved some powers for our critical virtual machines, we spent some time in the shutdown process, my question is, how can I automate this process using PowerCLI and at the same time work on other tasks?, I found a script for this but it stop the entire cluster (ESX and VMs) all we need is a script that check each host ESX (or Cluster), looking for virtual machines defined in the script I want to stop, he will do it one by one and checking that the virtual machine is a full stop before you start the process with the other in the list, if for some reason any VM hang time fail safe module where he goes to this fair and stops the machine Virtual anyway, as verification will be nice to get an e-mail us the result.

  All ideas are welcome, we experience ever this situation before so I'm open to suggestions in how to approach the issue in the best way, I read online that this can be done by using the priority settings VM defined in the settings of HA or creating folders for virtual machines and stop records based on the priority assigned to the forders VMs at this point, I am very new in PowerCLI and all I have is LucD book.

  Thanks in advance.

  The AureusStone script works, but if you want a little more advanced than the shutdown procedure, you could do something like that.

  The script will read the names of the VM to a CSV file that has this format

  "vmName".

  "vm1.

  "vm2.

  "vm3.

  The script is powered all the guests who are in the CSV file.

  First, he'll try a stop comments, as VMware tools are running.

  The script will wait $maxWaitTime seconds from the end.

  If the guest is still on, the script will try to power off the power.

  Still, the script will wait $maxWaitTime seconds.

  If the virtual machine is still running, the script will try to kill him.

  When all the guests are made, the script will send an e-mail

  $sleepTime = 5 $maxWaitTime = 45
  $report = @()
  $vmNames = Import-Csv "C:\emergency-shutdown.csv" -UseCulture | %{$_.vmName}
  
  Get-VM -Name $vmNames | where {$_.PowerState -eq "PoweredOn"} | %{
  
  # Guest shutdown     if($_.Extensiondata.Guest.ToolsRunningStatus -ne "guestToolsNotRunning"){
          Shutdown-VMGuest -VM $_ -Confirm:$false        $waitTime = 0        while((Get-VM $_.Name).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff" -and $waitTime -lt $maxWaitTime){
              sleep $sleepTime            $waitTime += $sleepTime        }
          $line = $_.Name + " guest shutdown"    }
  
  # Power off     if((Get-VM $_.Name).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff"){
          Stop-VM -VM $_ -Confirm:$false        $waitTime = 0        while((Get-VM $_.Name).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff" -and $waitTime -lt $maxWaitTime){
              sleep $sleepTime            $waitTime += $sleepTime        }
          $line = $_.Name + " powered off"    }
  
  # Kill     if((Get-VM $_.Name).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff"){
          Stop-VM -VM $_ -Kill -Confirm:$false -RunAsync
          $line = $_.Name + " killed"        sleep $sleepTime    }
  
  # Problem guest     if((Get-VM $_.Name).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff"){
          $line = $_.Name + " problematic shutdown"    }
  
      $report += $line
  }
  
  $from = "[email protected]" $to = "[email protected]" $subject = "Emergency shutdown report " + (Get-Date -Format "yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm")
  $body = $report 
  
  $smtpServer = "your smtp server"
  $smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
  $smtp.Send($from, $to, $subject, $body)
  

• Script to find all the VMS with dates/no tools installed.

  Hey,.

  I need help guys.  I need a script that finds all VMS in vCenter which do not have the tools installed or tools or outdated.  I also need the script to generate the following data in a CSV file.  Name of the virtual machine and the State of the tools (not installed or outdated).

  Thank you guys.

  Good suggestion. 'Get-View - ViewType VirtualMachine' is much faster than ' Get - VM | Get-View»

  You inspired me to go at maximum speed. So I moved all the filtering also to the cmdlet Get-View. The following script is used in my environment about 30% faster than what you suggested. My first script took me 1 minute 50 seconds. Your script 1,624 seconds. And the following script 1,110 seconds in an environment with about 500 virtual machines...

  Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Property Name,Guest.ToolsStatus -Filter @{
    "Config.Template"="False";"Guest.ToolsStatus"="toolsNotInstalled|toolsNotRunning|toolsOld"} | `
  Select-Object @{N="Name";E={$_.Name}},@{Name="ToolsStatus";E={$_.Guest.ToolsStatus}} | `
  Export-CSV -Path VmToolsStatus.csv -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

  "Config.Template"="False" filter models so that you get only the virtual machines.

  "Guest.ToolsStatus"="toolsNotInstalled | toolsNotRunning | toolsOld" returns invited with ToolsStatus toolsNotInstalled or toolsNotRunning or toolsOld.

  Thanks to Eric Wannemacher to show me how to use regular expressions in a Get - view filter in his blogpost: VMware PowerCLI and Get-View filters.