VCenter with 2 guests, need to start the virtual machine to another host
I lost the connection to one of the two armies in the vCenter. How to start a virtual machine saved on the host that is down. ?
Heck, I found out how. I had to connect to the HOST and not do it from the vCenter. Got it to work.
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Post edited by: kjb007: changed vm in vmdk
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$Vm | Start-VM-confirm: $false - ea - global 0EV: vmOpsError | out-nullWhen I start the VM, it does start the ISO.
If I go to vCenter, the CD is pointing to the ISO file, but the 'Connected' to change settings option is not checked; I can restart the VM of vCenter and then the VM restarts the ISO, but not in the script.
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Hello
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