Virtual machines by IP range, containing vCPU vRAM, VMDK Info

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• Find virtual machines in a range of IP addresses and name, IP and output Cluster

  Hello

  I am trying to create a script for the release of all the virtual machines that fall within a range of IP addresses and exit the VM name, IP address and the Virtual Cluster of machine is hosted in. I've got so far as to the release of the name of VM and IP, but can't seem to get the cluster to work. I can't find an expression for an attribute of Cluster in Get-View. Does anyone know how to complete it? Or maybe another way to go about this?

  Notice-EEG - ViewType VirtualMachine-filter @{"Guest.IpAddress"="10.10.10 *"} | Select Name,@{N="IP; E = {$_.guest.} Ip_address}}

  OUTPUT:

  Name                                                                                                 IP

  ----                                                                                                      --

  SERVER1                                                                                          10.10.10.1

  Thank you!

  Tony

  That foot kicks back an error for each virtual computer running trying to interview (below). I don't know, but you are able to use - property and - Id in the same line - filter?

  Get-view: all parameters can be resolved by using the specified named parameters.

  Online: 15 char: 13

  + View-EEG-Id $esx. VM-Name, property filter Guest.IPAddress @{'guest...

  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  + CategoryInfo: InvalidArgument: (:)) [Get-view], ParameterBindingException)

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId: AmbiguousParameterSet, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.DotNetInterop.GetVIView

  Change what you have there to remove the - filter and add back to the place where the declaration did the trick. Runs without error, but still takes a minute or two to complete. But that's fine.

  foreach ($cluster in (Get-View - ViewType ClusterComputeResource-property name, host)) {}

  foreach ($esx in (Get-View-Id $cluster. Home - VM property)) {}

  if($ESX.) VM) {}

  Notice-EEG-Id $esx. VM-Name property, Guest.IPAddress | where {$_.guest.} {IpAddress-like ' 10.10.10 * "} |

  Select Name,@{N='Cluster'; E = {$cluster. Name}},@{N='IP'; E = {$_.guest.} Ip_address}}

  }

  }

  }

  If I wanted to filter by name of Vlan or VlanID would I be able to replace the Guest.IpAddress property for a related property of VLAN?

  Thank you very much for the help!

• default virtual machine resource allocation

  Hi all

  I have a host vmware with 64 GB Ram and 12x2.799GHZ cpu cores with 12 VCPU known as multithreading is not active

  When I create a virtual machine with the default settings (there is no reservation or limitation)

  (1) in the tab of the virtual machine resource allocation I see 4167 MB of memory host and 4096 MB of memory comments

  -Why the host memory is only about 4 GB so I have 64 GB of physical memory, which is displayed on the summary of the host tab

  -When I create a virtual machine with the default settings it should be able to use all the resources I'm wrong? in my case, it should be able to use 64 GB of ram

  (2) with the default settings, the virtual machine has only 1 VCPU

  -does that mean that the virtual machine will be able to use speed 1 VCPU? for example, if my vm has a lot of work and it may be necessary to use 3 GHz so I'll have to add virtual vcpu another machine? as the speed of a vcpu is 2.8 Ghz am I bad?

  -If I activate multithreading I 24 VCPU

  each vcpu speed will be (2.799 / 2)?  without active multithreading I have 12 vcpu each 2,799 GHz

  Please clarify for me

  Hello

  You asked a few questions, so that questions will be answered inline

  ) in the tab of the virtual machine resource allocation, I see 4167 MB of memory host and 4096MB of memory comments

  So I guess that you have created a virtual machine with 4 GB of memory (windows 2008 64 bit R2 virtual machine default settings). For this purpose of resource allocation tab 4 GB (4096 MB) of comments. The virtual machine is like a container, providing a configured together to programs and the operating system inside the virtual machine. If memory watch kernel scheduler is 4096MB is available for this customer.

  Now, the kernel needs to use little memory to run the virtual machine, it's called an airline booking memory and is in your case 71 MB, therefor the memory footprint of this virtual machine in the VMkernel (memory of the host) is 4096 + 71 = 4167 MB MB

  -Why the host memory is only about 4 GB so I have 64 GB of physical memory, which is displayed on the summary of the host tab

  This is because you have provided that the virtual machine 4 GB, it's the "use-space" for the virtual machine guest OS to run in. It cannot expand beyond the limit of the virtual machine.

  -When I create a virtual machine with the default settings it should be able to use all the resources I'm wrong? in my case, it should be able to use 64 GB of ram

  If there is no claim, where the demand for resources is less than the provision of resources, the scheduler memory is going to provide the virtual machine, the resources that it requires, and that can go up to 4096 MB, as this is the limit of the container.

  (2) with the default settings, the virtual machine has only 1 VCPU

  -does that mean that the virtual machine will be able to use speed 1 VCPU? for example, if my vm has a lot of work and it may be necessary to use 3 GHz so I'll have to add virtual vcpu another machine? as the speed of a vcpu is 2.8 Ghz am I bad?

  A vCPU runs on a physical basis and may not exceed, for this purpose if you need to have several cycles availble cpu for your virtual machine, you must configure the virtual machine with more than 1 vCPU.

  -If I activate multithreading I 24 VCPU

  each vcpu speed will be (2.799 / 2)?  without active multithreading I have 12 vcpu each 2,799 GHz

  A vCPU can be scheduled on a full physical core or on an element of hyperthreading (SMT), this is done by the VMkernel CPU scheduler. It is completely transparent for the virtual machine.

  Remember that the default settings are a few recommendations, they are not strict guidelines.

• Windows 7 a vmdk file not found, cannot open the file '... Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Windows 7. VMDK

  Could not open the file ".../Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Windows 7.vmdk:

  Help, please. I copied this over from a backup and it does not open. I joined the collection of support...

  Thank you very much!

  B

  it2webber wrote: could not open the file ".../Documents/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows 7.vmwarevm/Windows 7.vmdk:

  Help, please. I copied this over from a backup and it does not open.

  How the Virtual Machine has been backed up and restored?  If Time Machine then...

  It is a known fact that Time Machine is not 100% reliable backing up/restoring VMS in all circumstances/conditions.  Also back up Virtual Machines via Time Machine of disk/time intensive and wastes a lot of space for something that may be corrupted and worthless time to restore it.  At least I would exclude the Virtual Machines with virtual machines and Time Machine shutdown, not suspended and VMware Fusion closed and then manually copy the VMS to another location, preferably on a different physical hard drive.  So keep the user data stored in the virtual machine saved out of the Virtual Machine on a regular basis in order to always have a backup of the current user data.  If you need to restore a properly saved by VM is not as common at least you will have a virtual working Machine and data user to go forward with when you find out your Time Machine backup of the virtual machine fails.  Also take a look at: best practices for backup of virtual machine (programs and data) in VMware Fusion (1013628)

  That said, if you don't have a copy of the file "Windows 7 - f004.vmdk" and then to try to retrieve the data from the user, you can try the following:

  Download then unzip it (double-click on) the joint "Windows_7 - f004.vmdk.zip" file that contains the file "Windows 7 - f004.vmdk ' an empty logical binary measure that has been created on the metric of the existing drive and add to the Package of the Virtual Machine.  This should allow the VHD to be considered as a virtual hard drive, assuming that there is no damage to the extent of the binary left headers.  Take a look on: work with Virtual Machine packages

  At this point, that the VHD has the scope necessary to show as a full disk, assuming that it is not corrupt the header in other binary extensions and can now attempt to access for the recovery of user data.

  There are several ways to try to retrieve user data.  The easy, although not necessarily work properly according to what now lack us due to replace the missing binary extensions with a logical empty measure, is trying to start the VM normally.  If the virtual machine starts up on the desk and VMware Tools load properly you should be able to copy your data to user off on a USB or slip and fall on the side of Mac or if you have a configured VMware folder then copy the files through it.

  Other methods involve starting the Virtual Machine with a Live OS ISO Image and copy files from a USB key or temporarily assemble the VHD to another Virtual Machine work.

  With the right tools installed the virtual hard disk could also be mounted as another accessible Volume through Finder.

• Consolidation of virtual machines to a custom policy

  I have a group of VMs that currently do not reside in the same folder, but are identified by a naming only through multiple vcenters scheme.  * acmevms *.

  I can't combine them into the same folders. In vSphere UI-> Configuration-> manage strategies, how can I better apply a strategy custom for them?  I don't want to have to manually select the 400 VMS and add them to the group...

  Thank you!

  Create a custom group. Is he filled dynamically. Add virtual machines by criteria name contains acmevms. This will dynamically fill all virtual machines with this generic term.

• Strategies of backup for virtual machines 200 +?

  Hello

  I have a question for you guys - if you have more than 100 virtual machines in your environment or your virtual machines are large & gt; 50GB, so what's your backup strategy for them? Are you using the VCB to backup all, or maybe you install the normal backup client (Veritas, CA, etc.) and backup via LAN? Or maybe you have other solutions for backup process?

  If you VCB, you have more than one VCB proxy? Or you start all on one server (a single script of vcb?)

  Thanks for any info.

  I should also mention that we use traditional backup for file servers agents over 200 Gb.  Ranger has a level file restore option, but it can take hours to reopen the file because it is compressed during the backup process.  I would also like to stress that the file formats shown in the screenshot are files zipped after the backup.  the size depends on how much space is used in the VMDK file.  some of the virtual machine listed are 50 to 70 GB vmdk files which are compressed within a 15 GB.  Also, when you are restoring is an exact replica of the original.  Some of my 50 GB VM restore tests were less than 30 minutes.

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• Is a bootcamp VM faster then a virtual machine that is based vmdk?

  Performance question: is a bootcamp VM faster then a virtual machine that is based vmdk? I guess the only reason why make it faster would be to drive, reading and writing.

  Are there other benefits of performance?

  Hello

  Not a bootcamp VM is not really faster like a normal virtual machine.

  I understand your reasoning, but unless you open a lot of clichés about the virtual machine performance is almost identical or similar vmdk founded against based training camp.

  Which btw is highlighting a disadvantage of bootcamp VMs, you can not snapshots.

  Of course, if you start your VM bootcamp in native mode (and not as a virtual machine), you have a performance increase as you then run native on the material.

  --

  Wil

• ZPrint accident of process before starting the virtual machine

  I see the following messages in system.log everytime my Windows VM starts. These accidents zprint apparently never happened before today. There is no previous accident for zprint report. The messages below always repeat 3 times before other messages on VM, commissioning.

  09/02/15 21:20:33... Report of incidents ReportCrash [7538] advice for zprint processes [7537]

  09/02/15 21:20:33... ReportCrash [7538] error saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/zprint_2015-02-09-212033_...crash using uid: gid 0: 0, euid: egid 0: 0

  Extract from the report of crash:

  Exception type: EXC_ARITHMETIC (SIGFPE)

  Exception codes: EXC_I386_DIV (division by zero)

  Why the merger issues the command zprint? If she has always done so before, why is zprint now blocking?

  (If I run the terminal zprint command without specifying the name of the area it blocks the same way.)

  Anyone have any ideas?

  Some things that I did today that might be important:

  My Mac Pro locked up while I was running Firefox (open Youtube and Yahoo pages).  I pushed the power button / stop. The virtual Windows machine was running at the time.

  After restarting the Mac Pro, when I tried to start the virtual machine, I got the message: "... vmdk has one or more internal errors that cannot be repaired. The only option is to restore from a backup copy of this disk... »

  So I renamed the corrupt VM bundle, then drag-and - drop copied all of the virtual machine to a backup volume.

  When I started the virtual machine restored, I noticed the crash zprint above messages.

  Thank you!

  OS X 10.5.8, Fusion 3.1.4

  Fusion uses zprint to internal information of the kernel which are very difficult to obtain by other means.

  Given how long it has been since OS X 10.5.8 or Fusion 3.1.4 were changed, either something has been corrupted or something has changed in the system environment for that to happen early.  I can't find any other references to zprint triggering a SIGFPE anywhere else on the Internet...

  If you do not already done, I highly recommend running disk utility and check (and possibly repair) the disks of your host before doing anything else.

  See you soon,.

  --

  Darius

• Edit a VMDK with another virtual machine snapshots?

  I have a virtual machine that has snapshots 4. I want to temporarily detach the boot drive, attach it to a different VM, extend the partition and finally relate to the original virtual machine. Can I attach the original VMDK file, or can I join < name > VM - 00000X.vmdk file?

  You just want to change the size of the partition you want to resize the virtual disks?

  In case you want to resize the virtual disks, you must not have any instant assets! In case you just want to change the partition structure in a virtual disk without changing its size, then use the snapshot active (the last one in the chain).

  Always keep in mind that snapshots are used as a chain, each link in the chain is active!

  André

• Script to the list of virtual machines with their VMDK on warehouses of data with their LUN ID.

  Hey gang - I have one here, I wonder if anyone has some ideas...

  Our storage team is looking for a report that can be generated to display each VM, each VMDK for this virtual machine and the data store on the VMDK is the canonical name of the data store - and throw in a delimited file of semicolon for their own transformation...

  I have thousands of VMS over hundreds of hosts and data warehouses and also have a handful of RDM. so, I'm looking for the most effective way to go about it.

  Should look like this:

  VMName; VMDKName, the data store; MONDAY

  somevm; somevm.vmdk; DATASTORE1; NAA.60050723145982asd29823blahblah1

  somevm; somevm_1.vmdk; DATASTORE2; NAA.60050723145982asd29823blahblah2

  Any ideas?

  The following PowerCLI script will give you the report requested on the virtual machines and their VMDK files. It also takes account of the fact that a data store can have several extensions:

  Get-VM |
  Get-HardDisk |
  Select-Object -Property @{N="VM";E={$_.Parent}},
  @{N="VMDK";E={$_.FileName.Split('/')[1]}},
  @{N="Datastore";E={$_.FileName.Split(']')[0].TrimStart('[')}},
  @{N="LunID";E={[string]::Join(',',((Get-Datastore $_.FileName.Split(']')[0].TrimStart('[')).Extensiondata.Info.Vmfs.Extent |
    Select-Object -ExpandProperty DiskName))}}
  

• Can not power on a suspended Virtual Machine

  When I try to turn on the virtual machine, I get a screen that says:

  "Recommendations for [VMname] home".

  Right of priority recommendation
  * Place [VMname] host [ESX host name] power on Virtual Machine
  * Place [VMname] host [ESX host name] power on Virtual Machine

  
  I select the host on which there are currently on and hit 'Turned on' in the lower right

  Once the virtual machine attempted to power on it gives an error in the pane "" recent tasks "" "a file is not found.

  Then I look in the events for the virtual machine and I see that this warning was generated after power on the operation and before the error "file not found":

  Migration [VMname] of [ESXhostname] to [same ESXhostname] [DatacenterName]: back to the snapshot may generate errors (warnings) on the destination host.

  
  The State of the virtual machine is "suspended".  I can try to hit again "Power On", but exactly the same thing happens.

  I tried to remove the virtual machine from the inventory and time, and it's the same thing.

  It is an environment 3.5 3.5 ESX and a Virtual Center Server 3.5 hosts.  The material of the virtual machine is version 7.

  Thank you for your ideas

  Doesn't sound very promising.

  To find out what we can do I need more info. Please attach:

  • a list of files in the folder of the virtual machine (on the console, run ls-lisa in the virtual machine folder)
  • all the header files vmdk (small dish or delta in their names)
  • the vmsd file
  • the vmx file

  Have you ever taken a peek at all the other files on the data store, where the files were accidentally moved?

  André

  PS: How much free disk space you have on the data store?

• Convert a hard drive to a virtual machine

  I have a server that the material died which has mirrored hard SATA hard drives in them.  I would like to convert the data on that hard drive to a virtual machine and put it in my vCenter, but I am unable to start the server.  What is the best way to do it?  I can mount and read data from Windows on another machine.  Right now I'm trying to back up data until an acronis image and then use converter to import.  I think it is easier to sense, though.   I also have a backup server Symantec Backup Exec, but I do not have the agent ESX for Symantec.

  Thank you

  Dave

  If you want to try the converter, just fix the disk on a physical host somewhere and run a normal conversion.

  Once you have done this, create a new empty virtual machine with no disc and you fix vmdk for the reader you want migrated to this new virtual machine. Chances are that you will get the normal NT Loader boot error when you try to start, but you should be able to solve this problem using a fo the following:

  DiskPart

  Fdisk

  Recovery Boot

  You can also consider to use something else than VMware converter - perhaps something like Acronis True image?

  Good luck and please feed back.

• Unable to connect to MKS: virtual machine configuration file does not exist

  Guys,

  Need a little help I'm running the following

  vCenter Server 4.0.0 (build 208111)

  ESX Server 4.0.0 (build 208167)

  I have a computer virtual running WIndows 2000 Advanced and when I try and open the console I get a black screen and the error message following

  "" Unable to connect to MKS: virtual machine configuration file does not exist '. "

  I scoured the data store and all the files of the virtual machine appear to be in place, I thought deletin the virtual machine from the inventory and add the vmdk file, it would be a good idea?

  Thank you.

  Remove and add new inventory won't hurt (you could lose data historial for virtual machine), it probably won't solve the problem.

  I doubt, it is a problem with the .vmx file, but you can try:

  -Remove the VM of the inventory

  -To create the new virtual machine (with the same characteristics as the virtual machine that you removed), name it differently and do not add hard drives that it

  -Change the new VM settings and add the existing VMDK virtual machine that you deleted

  -Power on VM and try

  • You should always have your complete file to the virtual machine original intact, in case you need, you will always have your original vmx file to add it to the inventory.

  By doing these steps you re-create the vmx file.

  f this post was useful/solved your problem, please mark the points of wire and price as seem you. Thank you!

• Multiple virtual machines can share a common hard

  I just confirmed that multiple virtual machines can share a hard if they all see it as non-permanent, which is great if you want to experiment with different linux packages at the same time.

  Except the hard. REDO_ * files that are produced by a virtual machine are removed when you turn it off, and all the work is lost.

  Any ideas how I could prevent the hard. REDO_ * files deleted?

  the non-persistent flag is to capture instant temporary vmdk is ignored when the virtual machine is turned off.

  The vmdk. REDO_ file is actually a type of snapshot. If you want to avoid that it gets deleted turned off the power, you must use a regular snapshot - but then your sharing of this vmdk with other virtual machines will no longer work.

  For your scenario of I don't know one solution stable AND well other than the use of network shares.

  There is a hack to really share VMDK between two virtual machines, but is more stable.

  Another solution may be that share this drive via iSCSI acrooss your machines virtual more.

  Some time ago I tried to interrupt the process of vmware-vmx.exe seconds before turning off the virtual machine and then copy the REDO far so that I can use it again... but if I remember right the next time that you start the virtual computer will be created a new REDO log and it is so pretty useless :-(

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• Maintain several XP Virtual Machines

  Hello, I am a developer consultant from several different companies.  I use a MacBook Pro bought this year and under snow leopard.  I bought the merger in order to maintain a XP Pro environment for each of my clients that require XP Pro.  In other words, for A Client I want to create an Image of XP for Client B I want to create XP Image B and so on.

  The first thing I did with the merger was to create a 'Basic Install' of XP Pro SP2 image and included several configurations I want present on each of my customer environments.

  Then, while this image was running, I took a snapshot.

  Then she draws from the virtual machine, I added a new virtual machine by selecting the following options...  Continue without disk > > use an existing virtual machine.  My goal here was to create a new virtual machine for A Client, but I wanted to use previously created base virtual machine.  Through the basic installation of hard file, I was able to create a virtual machine called A Client.

  Accordingly, I then had two virtual machines to choose "Install XP core" and "customer A".

  I have then boot the Client A virtual machine and install additional tools specific to the Client A.  After installation, I stopped the machine.

  In doing so, here are some of the questions that I ran...

  • 'Install base XP' also has new applications, even thought that I installed on another virtual machine

  • Cannot open disk '... vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.  Reason: The virtual disk parent has changed since the child was created.

  What I am doing wrong?  It seems that even if I use another image to create a new virtual machine, the new machine should be completely separated from the mother.

  I was not able to find anything in help, Google or video tutorials on it.

  Please help me to stop the madness.

  When you select the vmdk creating the VM for A customer, that it will not create a snapshot based on this parent disk, rather he actually uses the disk parent (which explains why you get the error on the modification of the parent, because you have done this...)

  Fusion does not support trees instant (he can't go 1 branch), then you can't have several VM built on a single State as you can do it with my computer.

  Therefore, you will need to create a virtual machine from scratch (or simply copy it, launch it and then customize) for each of your Clients.

  So, the best solution I see would be to create a basic disk, and then copy it, and THEN create a new virtual machine based on this disc copied.

  Hope that clarifies things =)