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• Orchestrator 5.1 REPORT-all the virtual machines in the data center and create a CSV file

  Hello

  What I basically want to do is create a report CSV of all virtual machines in the data center with various information (VMname, domain name FULL, IPaddress, status, data warehouses, tools etc...).  The export list in the client feature is insufficient (especially for any KPI report).

  Problem: (workflow is still under construction so real email send does not not and need to clean the code)

  I am stuck at the part of the creation of a table that can be parsed correctly in the CSV file.  2 ways I've tried will produce a report of single object or combine all of the table into a single string (where I am now).  I think the main problem I have is that I have to create a 2D within my service to push toward the final table that is written to the CSV format.  Basically, I do not understand how to push my variables in a loop of a table.

  Any help or assistance?

  Thank you

  B

  BOOM!

  Added some comments, removed the hardcoded in the csv temp file, deleted path the hardcoded port 25 for SMTP - mail settings should come from the configuration of the MAIL plug-in. And fixed / confirmed that the workflow now includes the attachment for e-mail and ends with success!

• Virtual Center and Virtual Machines do feed not on after outage

  Hello-

  Over the weekend, we had a power outage in our data center which resulted in the loss of power to our HP blades that make up our ESX cluster.  Power was restored after a few minutes, and fed up ESX Server, VirtualCenter, which works as a virtual machine, does not, no has yet no virtual machines.

  Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might have happened?   For storage, we have an HP EVA SAN fiber.

  Any ideas are greatly appreciated-

  Steve

  Hello.

  If electricity is cut to the complete chassis, and all went down at the same time?  "If so, you might want to look into the Virtual Machine start/stop" settings for your hosts and see if the settings are configured the way that you expect to be.

  Good luck!

• Virtual Center audit for virtual machines and ESX hosts

  Hi guys.

  I need to audit a system with 1000 + virtual PCs and hope you guys knew a script floating around in the VMware community who could interrogate Virtual Center for more information on all ESX and VMS hosts. Did anyone done something like this before?

  Looking for information on ESX, versions hostnames, Virtual Machines running on each host and the types of each virtual machine, the IP address of each virtual machine OS.

  Thoughts anyone?

  Thank you

  Hello

  RVTools is to look like Alan Renouf Powershell script vDiagram... http://www.virtu-al.NET

  Also, learn more about Veeam Reporter.

  Best regards
  Edward L. Haletky
  VMware communities user moderator, VMware vExpert 2009
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• Data Center migration of virtual machines and records from one data center to another.

  So, I found an online script that migrates your inventory during one vCenter to another.  I broke the script into two pieces that export (path of the folder path of the VM folder, permissions of folder and notes and custom attributes) and the other to import (create folders, move the virtual machines in the original folder, reset the permissions and set notes and custom attributes).

  The export script works very well.  I have problems with the import script.  If I have the name of the duplicate folder in the tree view of the structure of the tree will get duplicated under each similar folder.  i.e.

  Exported folder structure

  Portuagal-> football

  Spain> football> football

  Any folder structure

  Portugal> football> football

  Spain> football> football

  I guess I should somehow figure out the ID of file but don't have a clue where to start.

  I rewrote the section import of files of the script to avoid the problem of duplicated folder. The new script detects the parent folder by starting to look at the record of the root instead of just the folder above where it should be created. Because the full path is in the .csv file it is possible. The following script should now work correctly:

  ##IMPORT FOLDERS
  $vmfolder = Import-Csv "c:\Folders-with-FolderPath-$($datacenter).csv" | Sort-Object -Property Path 
  
  foreach($folder in $VMfolder){
       $Path = $folder.Path.split("\")
       $PathLength = $Path.Length
       $SubFolder = Get-Datacenter $datacenter | Get-Folder vm
       For ($i= 1; $i -lt $PathLength-1; $i++) {
          $SubFolder = Get-Folder -Location $Subfolder -Name $Path[$i]
       }
       New-Folder -Name $folder.Name -Location $SubFolder
  }
  

  Because the forum software has problem with hooks and contains the script, I have attached the vCenter_migration_import.ps1 script has changed.

  Best regards, Robert

• P2V - System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

  I am running Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 enviornment.

  I am creating a P2V Conversion in the P2V Assistant and 'Conversion of information' section, I get the following error message:

  Error (3210):

  And\pr boot volume system \\?\Volume{2dbb99c1-ba73-11de-97ae-806e6f6e6963}\ was not selected or is not found on the

  source machine >.

  Recommended action:

  Selected machine > cannot be virtualized. Verify that the system volumes and boot are selected for migration. So try

  try the operation again.

  Environmental information:

  Source server:

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1
  • Roles: Domain Services Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, printing and service of documents, files, & network policy and Access Services
  • Discs: C:\(OS) & D:\(File Share)

  Destination server:

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1
  • Roles: Files, Hyper-V services (IIS) Web server
  • Discs: C:\(OS) & D:\(VHD Files)

  Information about the conversion:

  • Configuration of the volume: (selected Volumes-C:------, D:\ & disk: Partition 0: 0)
  • "Offline conversion" because of the following warning: disk hardware or the file system on the volume \\?\Volume{2dbb99c1-ba73-11de-97ae-806e6f6e6963}\: is not supported by Volume Shadow Copy Service.

  I don't know what the problem or prevent this from happening. Assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

  Hi Christophe,

  According to the description looks like you have a problem with a particular program in Windows server 2008, I suggest you post this question in this forum for further assistance.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/WindowsServer

  Hope this information helps. If you have questions about Windows do not hesitate to answer and we will be happy to help.

• Mix the virtual switch different type in a Cluster and a data center.

  Can I mix standard virtual switch and a virtual switch distributed in different hosts to a Cluster/DataCenter? Can I vMotion virtual machine to a host of switch distributed to a host of standard switch and vice versa? Let's assume that the hosts have the same port group name (but have virtual swaitch different type), in the same data center, and have the same subnet IP vMotion.

  You can mix standard switches and distributed, that's what we call hybrid architecture... but to be able to migrate virtual machines between virtual switches, you must the vSphere 6 and again there are some limitations, like not be able to migrate from VDS vs.

  Have a look here for more details on the cross switch vMotion: http://www.vladan.fr/vmotion-enhancements-vsphere-6-0/

• We have configured replication vsphere in our environment and when replication is triggered according to the OFR start us below the questions on the virtual machines that are configured for replication

  Question: We have configured replication vsphere in our environment and when replication is triggered according to the OFR start us below the questions on the virtual machines that are configured for replication.

  Version for esxi: Patch 5.1 level 7

  Virtual center of version 5.1

  Source of storage - IBM v7000

  Destination storage - Hitachi

  
  Questions:
  Events of breach RPO
  Consolidation for the VM disk failure
  Delta abandoned events
  Time change events
  NTFS error and warning (event ID: 137, 57)
  RDP disconnect and ping does matter
  Standby error
  Volsnap error
  Stop the server and offline issue
  Install vmtools emits automatically

  well, in this case, we need to disable the standby of the end of the replication.

  So that everything in triggering replication does not trigger the snapshot of the suspension.

  Then test the if you get these errors.

• A suspended snapshot could not be created for the virtual machine (DC) ha-data center (DC) \vm\VMware vCenter Server Appliance.

  Hello gentlemen,

  I can not only save this virtual machine with Backup Exec 2014 for a long time.

  They are there was no snapshot in snapshot Manager.

  Could you help me?

  A suspended snapshot could not be created for the virtual machine (DC) ha-data center (DC) \vm\VMware vCenter Server Appliance.

  V-79-57344-38260 - failed to create a snapshot of the virtual machine. The virtual machine is no longer exist, or may be too busy to pause to take the snap.

  A suspended snapshot could not be created for the virtual machine (DC) ha-data center (DC) \vm\FRPA111PRIM01.

  V-79-57344-38299-\vm\FRPA111PRIM01 ha-data center (DC) VMVCB::\\192.168.204.42\VCGuestVm\ (DC). To try to take a snapshot of a virtual machine failed because it could not be suspended in a file system.

  Hello

  I found the solution.

  I disabled the JOB BE general relativity.

  and the host where the virtual machine belong was not the right time. No Ntp server has been configured.

  I did and now there works.

  I think that the problem can come from this.

• Unable to start the virtual machine and snapshots are missing from snapshot Manager.

  Hello

  I'm new here in the VMWARE communities and I don't know if I'm posting this survey in the right place. I am currently using VMWARE Workstation 9. The issue I'm having is that I can not start my VM. The error that says:

  

  This is an overview of my settings:

  

  When I try to get a snapshot I can go back, I get this snapshot Manager screen:

  

  I checked the files on the directory of the virtual machine. The snapshot files are still there.

  I tried to solve the problem by editing the configuration of virtual machine file to use another vmdk. I got an error saying something about the parent and the child are not synchronized. Sorry I don't have a screenshot of that. I also tried to make a copy of one of the other VMDK and rename it to match with the name of the missing file. That also made me anywhere I tried looking on the net but I get answers to other vmware ESXi and vSphere products. So I don't know if they apply to my current situation.

  At this point, I'm hoping to recover my machine or at least be able to use snapshots. Please notify.

  I think that the restoration was the best way to solve this problem. I actually checked the different files, but it looks like I missed something. In any case, create snapshots with the virtual machine in a state engine is my personal preference. It is not only to save disk space (since there is no need to preserve the current state of memory), but also provides a consistent state. As for the number of snapshots, you're always on the stop side, and if you are not having issue of performace with small changes you make you should be ok. In case there is a performance problem, you may consider to store the computer virtual on an SSD that will certainly help.

  Since the Center of Documentation of VMware Workstation 10

  To the premises of the virtual machines, you can take more than 100 snapshots for each linear process. For shared virtual computers and remote, you can take a maximum of 31 snapshots for each linear process.

  André

  Post edited by: a.p. corrected fault, "SSD" instead of "SD".

• Get the IP of the virtual machine and MAC

  Hello

  I'm trying to get the IP of the virtual machine and the MAC one of my data centers.

  When I run that the following script two things happen:

  1. I don't see a vm in the output of the csv file.

  2. when I send the output to the quick PowrCLI I see only a mac and one IP address for virtual machines with network cards.

  Script

  ---------

  $MV = Get-Data Center $DC | Get-vmhost | Get - VM

  {foreach ($VM to $VMs)

  $VMx = get-view $VM.ID

  $HW = $VMx.guest.net

  foreach ($dev to $HW)

  {

  foreach ($ip in $dev.ipaddress)

  {

  $dev | Select

  @{Name = 'Name'; {Expression = {$vm.name}}.

  @{Name = 'IP address'; Expression is {$ip}},

  @{Name = 'MAC'; {Expression = {$dev.macaddress}} |

  Export-CSV VM - IP - Info.csv - NoTypeInfo

  }

  }

  }

  My console output, tested on a virtual machine with two external network cards and an internal interface "dummy".

  Name                               IP                                  MAC

  ----                                   --                                    ---

  VM1 192.168.1.1 00:50:56:xx:xx:xx

  VM1 192.168.2.1 00:50:56:xx:xx:xx

  VM1 192.x.x.xxx xx

  You see the addresses expected in summary using vSphere Client VM?

  Oh sorry, I forgot the PS 3.0 requirement.

  You can put all the entries in a table and export all at the end of the script.

  $out = @)
  $VMs = get-data center $DC | Get-vmhost | Get - VM
  {foreach ($VM to $VMs)
  $VMx = get-view $VM.ID
  $HW = $VMx.guest.net
  foreach ($dev to $HW)
  {
  foreach ($ip in $dev.ipaddress)
  {
  $out += $dev. Select @{Name = 'Name'; {Expression = {$vm.name}}, @{Name = 'IP address'; Expression = {$ip}}, @{Name = 'MAC'; {Expression = {$dev.macaddress}}
  }
  }
  }

  $out | Export-Csv - NoTypeInformation-Path ' VM - IP - Info.csv.

  Concerning

  Emanuel

• An external NIC on ESXi 5.1 and a virtual machine

  Hello!
  I have a dedicated server that has a single network adapter with an IP address from the data center. Installed on the server ESXi 5.1.
  And also the VM deployed, I need to publish on the Internet through the IP address. But because the ESXI host uses this IP address, I don't understand how to do it?
  Best regards, Dmitry

  It does not help if the host is connected directly to the Internet. You cannot have the same IP address on two different systems. The only way to do it with a unique IP address is having something of a NAT device in front of the host that forwards traffic - based ports, for example - to the host's IP address or the IP address of the virtual machine.

  André

• Newbie question: list the Configuration of virtual machines and data warehouses

  Hello

  I'm new on using powercli how to list all virtual machines in a certain data center, their memory, Procs and what data warehouses they are on.

  I know you can use get - vm | Select-object name, NumCPU MemoryMB but if I add DatastoreIdList as well, it doesn't seem to work.  What Miss me

  Thank you very much

  Laurence

  That's right, you could do

  Get-VM MyVM | Select Name,@{N="DS";E={[string]::join(',',($_.datastoreidlist|%{(Get-View -Id $_).Name}))}},Description |
      Export-Csv "C:\test.csv" -NoTypeInformation -UseCulture
  

  Just look at whether the separator for CSV is be a comma in your culture, you probably need to adjust the separator in the Join method!

• VMware View 4.5 - number of virtual machines deployment through Virtual Center

  Hello

  After an update to VMware View 4.5 Solution, thanks to an automatic pool sliding the virtual Center creates now six machines at the same time.

  Before this update the VC never fired on two machines at the same time...

  It of Nice to have this indictment, but is it possible for me to configure the number of virtual machines created on same time?

  Thanks for your help

  Kind regards

  If you go into servers and change the login information from vCenter there is an Advanced tab.  Click this tab and you can set the maximum amount of concurrent provisioning operations you want.

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• VShield Configuration Manager 4.1 (and how to protect a virtual machine?)

  I have 2 ESXi hosts currently configured in vCenter 4.1.  Before vShield installation Manager, he had 3 vSwitches present on each server; a regular and two distributed.

  • vSwitch0 - connected to vmnic0 - has management and production of network 1 10.168.90.x

  • VLAN 10.1 - VMFN connected to vmnic1 on each host - connects to the private physical network 10.1.x.x

  • VLAN 10.2 - VMFN connected to vmnic2 on each host - connects to the private physical network 10.2.x.x

  After you install vShield Manager in a new virtual machine and then to deploy vShield Zones to each ESXi host, develops a new vSwitch

  vmservice-vswitch - again group of ports in Virtual Machine vmservice-vshield-pg - not connected to any physical cards

  VMS individual vShield-FW created for each host have connected network cards as below

  • Production network normal 1 - VM Network adapter (attached to vSwitch 0).

  • Production network normal 2 - VM Network adapter (attached to vSwitch 0).

  • Adapter 3 - vmservice-vshield-pg network

  I tried to connect my VMs to the network vmservice-vshield-pg in order

  to protect them and place them behiind the firewall.  However, who has

  seem to work, and my VM has lost network connectivity.

  How to protect a virtual machine that needs to connect to the normal production

  Network (on vSwitch0)?  Is there any configuration steps I'm missing?

  What happens if I want to connect a virtual machine or one of its network cards to one of the 10.1.xx

  or 10.2.x.x networks rather than the normal 10.168.90.x network?  What

  additional steps should I make?  The new 4.1 documentation is not

  helped at all, and it seems that the old vShield Zones 1.0 docs are not

  applies to all.

  There is no need to change the virtual computer is connected to the network.

  Just activate/install vShield zones on your hosts and add rules to the vSwitch or data center.

  The virtual machine will be becomes protected if no error is displayed.