Try to change several network adapters on a virtual machine

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• Trying to count the number of network adapters on the virtual machines

  Hi all

  Have tried to create a script to simply count the number of network adapters in a virtual machine? In all honesty, don't have a clue where to start? I don't know there are a number of 'ownership' but can't seem to figure out how I can integrate this counting cards network

  Thank you very MUCH in advance

  Munster

  Try this way

  $vms = Get-VM
  
  foreach ($vm in $vms)
  {
       $vm | Select @{N = "VMName"; E = {$vm.name} },
            @{N = "VMNICCount"; E = {$vm.Networkadapters.count} }
  }
  

  Inside of the foreach loop, you select in each $vm name and County NIC.

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• Change VLAN of a list of virtual machines and then force a reboot.

  I start with a script that I found in this forum - I'm new here and just try to wrap your head around this code... so apologies if this is Basic for all the world

  # VCenter you plug too

  $vcserver = "MyVcenter.somewhere.local".

  SE connect-VIServer $vcserver

  # Loop to make changes to the network card from the list of servers that needs to be changed

  $serverlist = get-Content "C:\Scripts\vlan_Test\vms.txt".

  ForEach ($server in $serverlist)

  {

  $NIC = get-NetworkAdapter - VM $server

  All-NIC - NIC $NIC - NetworkName "1234 MyNewVLan"-confirm: $false ""

  Just add restart to this line?

  }

  Thanks in advance - I wanted to validate the name of vlan first... and if = rename abc def and restart (just in case you are really in the mood to help me )

  Yes, you can add simply restarting the virtual computer after you set the new assignment of network I've included in the script below, and I added the test to check you're going only to change the network adapters that have a VLAN specific already assigned. The script below assumes you want to just restart virtual machines where the assignment of network has been changed. If you want to restart all the virtual machines on the list, no matter if they need to change, and then pass the line of restart-vmguest out of the IF statement. In addition, I would like to add that a reboot is not necessary for this change.

  # VCenter you plug too

  $vcserver = "MyVcenter.somewhere.local".

  SE connect-VIServer $vcserver

  # Loop to make changes to the network card from the list of servers that needs to be changed

  $serverlist = get-Content "C:\Scripts\vlan_Test\vms.txt".

  {ForEach ($server in $serverlist)

  $NIC = get-NetworkAdapter - VM $server

  If ($NIC.NetworkName - like "MyOldVLan" 1233) {}

  All-NIC - NIC $NIC - NetworkName "MyNewVLan 1234" - confirm: $false

  restart-VMGuest - VM $server

  }

  }

• Impossible to change the path for the shared virtual machines

  Hello

  as long as user root, in the Preferences menu, shared, VMs when I change the location and

  (1) push apply 1 time, the path is created in the right place on the hard drive but when I want to share a virtual machine and move toward this path, the default path is the default: / var/lib/vmware... not the one created by the menu setting.

  Cannot change the location for the shared virtual machines.

  (2) push apply several times: odd error menu

  

  OS: Linux mandriva 64

  Any ideas?  Is this a way to manually change the path in a config file?

  Best respect

  Out of work station - stop pass.
  Then edit datastores.xml - don't know where the files on Linux - I expect it be in/etc/vmware/hostd or something like that

• Disable the network interface on a virtual machine

  Hello all-

  Is there a way to disable the network interface on the network adapter in the virtual machine?  We have a group of applications who want to simulate a network in collaboration with MSCS failure - I don't necessarily agree with the fact that this type of test, but try to determine if this is possible from the functional point of view.

  Our ESX host have networks of virtual machine set up off the coast of 4 port nic mezzanine card, and I don't want to touch the VM network vswitch as any part of this test.

  Thanks for any help you can provide-

  Steve

  Is there a way to disable the network interface on the network adapter in the virtual machine?

  Yes, in the virtual machine settings, for each NIC assigned to the virtual machine you will find a checkbox 'connected '. Unchecking it's like pulling the network cable.

  André

• Change of depth of color for virtual machines

  Hello

  Is it possible to change the color depth of ESXi virtual machines? When the remote access, this would improve performance on the network.

  Thank you

  Ojas Pereira

  I assume you mean the console VM connection which is somewhat a big eater. The only adjustment I remember was a limit on the number of connections from the console. Not that there isn't a setting but I have never heard of him.

• Specify a physical NETWORK adapter to a virtual machine

  It is a fundamental issue, or it was in VMware Server 1.x, but in v2.x options may not be available.  Here's what I do:

  I have a physical host with 3 different network interface cards installed. I want to configure the vNIC on each of my 2 mV at one of the physical network cards, so they each have their own. In VMware server 1.x I would install a vmnet # for each NETWORK adapter and then configure each virtual computer to use one of the new vmnet I set everything up. VMware Server 2, I can still set up since both vnet (one for each NETWORK card), but when I go to change settings of NETWORK adapter in the virtual machine, I have three options (Bridged, host-only and NAT). Two of these two new vnets are "bridge", but I need to specify a fo the vnet jumpered for each.

  I know I must be missing something very simple, do not hesitate to point out my mistake. Thank you!

  What is your host operating system? If Windows, run the virtual network Editor (vmnetcfg.exe) announces the administrator, disable the automatic bypass and map each physical NIC to another VMNet adapter * in the tab "virtual host network address." If Linux, run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl (it will take your virtual machines off / suspension) and choose to create more than one Bridged network when you are prompted, choosing different logical names and specitying eth0, eth1, eth2 or whatever they are called.

  Then in the virtual machine, they must appear in the drop-down list for the card that you have.

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• Can I change the RAM available on a virtual machine without having to reboot?

  I would like to know if there is an option to change the RAM available on a virtual machine without restarting the virtual machine. I saw this old news item that says that it is

  possible (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10044031-92.html), but I don't know how to do it. Any suggestions?

  Thanks in advance.

  Arne post, called PowerCLI: toggle the function add Hot VMs, shows how.

• Assign an individual ethernet NETWORK adapter to a virtual machine

  Hi all

  We wish you a new year filled with joy and happiness.

  I just install ESX 4.1.0 and vsphere 4.1.0.

  I have a couple of additional NIC cards available in the ESX Server. I would like to assign to each VM.

  I have configured the virtual switch as "vswitch0" and all additional NIC cards appear on this switch. But I couldn't find a way to permanently assign a NETWORK adapter to a virtual machine specific.

  I have 3 NICs and I intend to have 3 VM.

  Anyone can guide me please.

  Thank you

  Krishna

  An option is to create 3 virtual machine port groups and assign each virtual machine to one of them. In the configuration of the port group, set a NIC to 'Active' and the other two to 'Sleep'. In this way each VM uses a dedicated NETWORK card and - failure - switches to one of the others.

  André

• Dedicated network adapter to the virtual machine and the host computer not let can visit his profile

  OK, here's my question, I know how to give themselves a phyiscal nic to a vmware, but I wanted to take it one step further and do not leave the host send or receive data from this network card, only the virtual machine can use this network/NIC...

  Here's my reasoning, I have to network conections, one is for my internal/field network and the second is a direct connection to the internet (Comcast) I don't want to use to separate the machines have for internet connection, I want to be on the same machine phyiscal and have just the vmware machine talking to comcast... is it possible?  I am running VMware workstation 7, last update.

  Thank you

  Cdrshm

  I assume you are using a Windows host?

  If Yes...

  -first set up networking networking with vmnetcfg.exe

  -assign vmnet0 to the network card for the internal network

  -assign vmnet2 to the network card used for direct access to the internet

  -Right-click on the map network-icon in the systray and access the properties of the network adapter for vmnet2

  -Disable all other protocols and the Protocol of vmware_bridge for this network adapter

  result: a virtual machine that uses vmnet2 can directly access the internet and the host has no IP address for this network adapter - and therefore cannot use it.

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• PowerCLI script needed to change the 9 network adapters to a virtual computer in a single operation

  I got about 30 mV, and I need to change the 9 cards each virtual computer network. The script below takes a while to run, is there a way to speed it up, by changing all the interfaces of a VM in a single operation?

  $VM = "MY_VM_".

  1... 30 | % {

  $VMS = $VM + $_

  Get-vm-name $VMS | Get-NetworkAdapter-name '2 network adapter | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName "blah1" - connected: $true - confirm: $false

  Get-vm-name $VMS | Get-NetworkAdapter-name "Network adapter 3 | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName "blah2" - connected: $true - confirm: $false

  Get-vm-name $VMS | Get-NetworkAdapter-name "NIC 4 | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName "blah3" - connected: $true - confirm: $false

  Get-vm-name $VMS | Get-NetworkAdapter-name "adapter 5 network | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName "blah4" - connected: $true - confirm: $false

  Get-vm-name $VMS | Get-NetworkAdapter-name "NIC 6. Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName "blah" - connected: $true - confirm: $false

  Get-vm-name $VMS | Get-NetworkAdapter-name 'network 7 adapter | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName "blah" - connected: $true - confirm: $false

  Get-vm-name $VMS | Get-NetworkAdapter-name '8 network adapter | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName "blah7" - connected: $true - confirm: $false

  Get-vm-name $VMS | Get-NetworkAdapter-name 'network 9 adapter | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName "blah8" - connected: $true - confirm: $false

  Get-vm-name $VMS | Get-NetworkAdapter-name '10 network adapter | Together-NetworkAdapter - NetworkName "blah9" - connected: $true - confirm: $false

  }

  Thank you very much!!. I was able to change the script of LucD work in DVS.

  FINAL VERSION:

  $hash = $null

  $hash = @ {}

  $dvs = get-view (get-VirtualSwitch-name "DVS5.1")

  $dvs. PortGroup | % {Get-View-Id $_} | %{

  $hash.add ($_.) Name, $_. Key)

  }

  # Loop below for all virtual machines

  1... 90 | %{

  $i = $_

  write-host 'tenant = $i'

  $convertTab = @ {}

  "Network adapter 1" = "$1te I".

  "Network adapter 2" = "$2te I".

  'Network adapter 3' = ' $3te I ".

  "Network adapter 4" = "$4te I".

  'Network adapter 5' = ' $5th I ".

  'Network adapter 6' = ' $6te I ".

  'Network adapter 7' = ' $7te I ".

  'Network adapter 8' = ' $8te I ".

  'Network adapter 9' = ' $9te I ".

  'Network adapter 10' = ' $10te I ".

  }

  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine-property "Config.Hardware.Device" - filter @{' Name '=' VM-$i - 1 ""} | %{

  $spec = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec

  $_. Config.Hardware.Device | where {$_-is [VMware.Vim.VirtualEthernetCard]} | %{

  $dev = new-Object Vmware.Vim.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec

  $dev. Operation = "├editer."

  $dev. Device = $_

  $dev.device.Backing = new-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualEthernetCardDistributedVirtualPortBackingInfo

  $dev.device.backing.port = new-Object VMware.Vim.DistributedVirtualSwitchPortConnection

  $dev.device.backing.port.switchUuid = $dvs. UUID

  $dev.device.backing.port.portgroupKey = $hash [$convertTab [$_.]] DeviceInfo.Label]]

  $spec. DeviceChange += $dev

  }

  $_. ReconfigVM ($spec)

  }

  }

• Impossible to locate or select network adapters in the virtual network editor - W2K8 host

  I am running VMware 2.0.1 on a W2K8 64-bit host (with the windows firewall is disabled for now). VM images are all able to start and use the network bridged the host connection. I can access these images of virtual computer on the network, and even each image virtual machine running on that host computer has access to the public network.

  My problem is that I have three network adapters available on the host, but I can't individually select one of them in the virtual network Editor. The "Automatic gateways" checkbox is grayed, outside, tab automatic bypass, and if I try to select an adapter to exclude none appear in the dialog 'Add adapters excluded' that opens. In the virtual network mapping tab VMnet0 host, is set to be filled to an automatically chosen adapter and VMnet1 & 8 are configured to use their default VMware network cards. If I open the selections from drop down menu to one of the network adapter 10 VMnets listed in the virtual network mapping tab host there is no available alternative.

  Note: three network cards available on my W2K8 host server, one of them is a fault tolerant team consisting of two individual adapters and two other network cards are not associated. The team of the adapter has a network on our local network connection, but the other two adapters are connected to a private network. The fact that the images of the virtual machine running on that host are available on the network and be able to use the network indicates to me that my VMnet0 connection automatically open is finding and using the adapters together somehow (Luckily, by design?).

  I installed VMware 1.X and 2.0 on many host W2K3 servers and never encountered this problem before.

  If Win2008 follows a similar to Vista security model, then you must run AS administrator virtual network Editor.  Otherwise, you cannot make changes selections.

• Assign 2 network adapters to a virtual computer.

  Hey guys, I'm going to implement Microsoft Lync and I'll be VMing the edge transport server.  The edge transport server needs 2 network cards on the server.  One from the firewall that will carry data for SIP trunk, as well as the other goes to the front-end server where it routes, archives, etc.  Attached to the post, is how I currently the have set.

  

  When I boot on the edge (W 2008 R2) Server I see only a single network adapter.  I also tried to put the two cards on 2 separate networks of Vm, but I don't know exactly how this works for my situation.  Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you for your time.

  Now select the transport Edge VM of the inventory server.

  Select the Summary tab and then choose the option change the parameters.

  You can see an Ethernet card in the hardware list. Select the adapter and replace the "VM Network3" portgroup.

  Add one more Ethernet Adapter (vNIC).

  Hardware tab click Add.

  In the Add Hardware dialog box, select Ethernet adapters and click Next.

  Select the "VM network4" portgroup and complete the process by clicking on the Finish button.

  Now the virtual machine has two NICs connected to two networks.

• How to change network name for all virtual machines within the same cluster

  We have recently changed name vswitch to take into account that something significant, in the past vCenter could change the labels of networh for all virtual machines... seems this time help labels are not changed (maybe its got something to do with the update vcenter for 2.5.U3)...

  in any case, someone at - it a powershell script that could find all the virtual machines that are referring to the old label network and then changing again the name... ?

  Enjoy the respponses...

  Thanks in advance

  A few things on this blog could help.

  If you know the names you want to use, you could also just use something like:

  Get-Cluster X | Get-VM | Get-NetworkAdapter | Where { $_.NetworkName -eq "OldNetwork" } | Set-NetworkAdapter -NetworkName "NewNetwork" -confirm:$false
  Get-Cluster X | Get-VM | Get-NetworkAdapter | Where { $_.NetworkName -eq "NewNetwork" } | Set-NetworkAdapter -Connected:$true -confirm:$false
  

• How to change the NETWORK adapter to a virtual server of perticular

  Dear all Hello,.

  I'm new to update3 esx 3.5 I added a VM to esx and figured out that the Vserver cannot ping desktop

  Finally, I thought that the virtual network adapter uses the second NIC in the physical server that is not connected,

  How can I change the NETWORK card to use the appropriate injector?

  Kind regards.

  Welcome to the Forum - the way the easiest is to use the VI Client.  See page 61 of the quick start guide - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_quickstart.pdf

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