Upgrade of computer virtual guest NIC and other things using PowerCLI

Someone at - it figures out how to do this?  I'm trying to script the following process:

  • Script VM Tools Upgrade to the current version.  <-done, grabbed from somewhere.  Using the cmdlet Update-tools after checking
Function Check-ToolsStatus($vm){
$vmview = get-VM $vm | Get-View
$status = $vmview.Guest.ToolsStatus
if ($status -match "toolsOld"){
$vmTools = "Old"}
elseif($status -match "toolsNotRunning"){
$vmTools = "Not Running"}
else{
$vmTools = "Ok"}
return $vmTools
}
  • Script VM hardware upgrade from 4 to 7.  <-done, grabbed from somewhere.
Function Check-VMHardwareVersion($vm){
     $vmView = get-VM $vm | Get-View
     $vmVersion = $vmView.Config.Version
     $v4 = "vmx-04"
     $v7 = "vmx-07"
     
          if ($vmVersion -eq $v4){
               $vmHardware = "Old"}
          elseif($vmVersion -eq $v7){
               $vmHardware = "Ok"}          
          else{Write-Host "Error!!" -ForegroundColor Red
               $vmHardware = "Error"}
          
          return $vmHardware
}

Function Upgrade-VMHardware($vm){

     $vmview = Get-VM $vm | Get-View
     $vmVersion = $vmView.Config.Version
     $v4 = "vmx-04"
     $v7 = "vmx-07"

          if ($vmVersion -eq $v4){
               Write-Host "Version 4 detected" -ForegroundColor Red
               
               # Update Hardware
               Write-Host "Upgrading Hardware on" $vm -ForegroundColor Yellow
               Get-View ($vmView.UpgradeVM_Task($v7)) | Out-Null
     }     
}
  • Current NIC script copy configurations. <-don't know how to do this.  vbScript? netsh? using invoke-vmscript?
    • Get the full IP address configuration.
    • Need to get the nic associated with network adapter classes.
????
  • Script adds VMXNET 2 | 3 NIC. <-see below for the idea.
#My Thought
New-NetworkAdapter -Type EnhancedVmxnet -NetworkName <from previous script> -vm <targetvm> -confirm:$false
    • Need to remove old nic, once the settings have been transferred.
#Probably a where statement would be better since I only want to remove non enhancedvmxnet and vmxnet3
$nic = Get-NetworkAdapter -VM | Remove-NetworkAdapter -networkadapter $nic[0]
  • Apply script copied configs to new nic NIC (VMXNET2 | 3) <-don't know how to do this. vbScript? netsh? using invoke-vmscript?

????

  • Script vmdisk add, change pvscsi controller, wait 30 seconds for the OS detect.
#My Thought
$tempdisk = $vm | New-Harddisk -CapacityKB 2048 -StorageFormat Thin
Sleep 30
$vm | Shutdown-VMGuest -confirm:$false
Sleep 90
If ($vm.powerstate -eq "PoweredOn"){Stop-VM $vm -Confirm:$false}
$tempdisk | New-ScsiController -Type Paravirtual
Start-VM $vm -confirm:$false
Sleep 90
  • Script to stop, remove added disk and change current pvscsi discs
#My Thought
$vm | Shutdown-VMGuest -confirm:$false
Sleep 90
If ($vm.powerstate -eq "PoweredOn"){Stop-VM $vm -Confirm:$false}
$tempdisk = $vm | get-harddisk | where {$_.CapacityKB -eq "2048"}
$tempdisk | Remove-HardDisk
$vm | get-harddisk | set-scsicontroller -type paravirtual -confirm:$false
Start-VM $vm -confirm:$false

Post edited by: Zsoldier

Hello

It work certenly with the root user, but it is possible to allow the change with the user from the Group of the root. Behind the two cmdlets, there are two perl scripts that you can find in the folder C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\. The scripts are GetVmGuestNetworkInterface_LinuxGuest and SetVMGuestNetworkInterface_LinuxGuest.

The Get script reads the configuration from/etc/sysconfig/network-script / ifcfg * deposits and also run the ifconfig command. A small observation on sharp file permissions shows that the get cmdlet will work with the user to the root group.

The game script written in the configuration in sysconfig files /, so you should give permission to write to the root group if you want to use another user.

The Linux box in our test environment is RedHat Enterprise 5

Vitali

Team PowerCLI

Tags: VMware

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