W2K8 customization specification

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• Set-VM the vCenter Server fails to decrypt the passwords stored in the customization specification error

  This error in executing the PowerCLI code below

  Environment

  5.5 b

  Using PowerCLI 5.5

  Do not use a custom certificate

  (1) tried to use passwords in clear text in the script (not my favorite)

  (2) tried to retype the password in the customization specifications (join the domain and local administrator options)

  (3) tried to use Get-Credential as stored creds

  (4) I don't know how to put the password in the XML file in clear text (not my favorite) - looking at it now.

  #Load PowerCLI a snap

  function LoadSnapin {}
  Param ($PSSnapinName)
  If (!) () Get-PSSnapin. where {$_.} Name - eq $PSSnapinName})) {}
  Add-pssnapin-name $PSSnapinName
  }
  }
  LoadSnapin - PSSnapinName 'VMware.VimAutomation.Core '.

  
  #Create VM
  $ParentVMName = "Parent2012r2VM".
  $vCenterHostName = 'vCenter.
  $vCenterUserName = "domain\user".
  $vCenterUserPassword = "Password"
  SE connect-VIServer-Server "vCenter' - User $vCenterUserName - password $vCenterUserPassword

  #$cred = get-Credential
  #connect-viserver-Server "vCenter" - Credential

  $cloneName = 'Server1 '.
  $sourceVM = get - VM $ParentVMName | Get-View
  $cloneFolder = $sourceVM.parent
  $cloneSpec = new-object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineCloneSpec
  $cloneSpec.Snapshot = $sourceVM.Snapshot.CurrentSnapshot
  $cloneSpec.Location = new-object Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateSpec
  $cloneSpec.Location.DiskMoveType = [Vmware.Vim.VirtualMachineRelocateDiskMoveOptions]: createNewChildDiskBacking
  $sourceVM.CloneVM_Task ($cloneFolder, $cloneName, $cloneSpec)

  
  #Update temporary spec
  [string] $Domain = "Domain".
  [string] $DomainUserName = "user@domain".
  [string] $DomainPassword = "password"
  $Spec = get-OSCustomizationSpec "CustomSpec1" | New-OSCustomizationSpec-name "tmp01" - non-permanent Type | Game-OSCustomizationSpec-domain $Domain - DomainUsername $DomainUsername - DomainPassword $DomainPassword
  $Spec = get-OSCustomizationNicMapping-Spec $Spec | Game-OSCustomizationNicMapping - IPmode UseStaticIP - IPAddress 'x.x.x.x' - SubnetMask - DefaultGateway x.x.x.x - x.x.x.x DNS 'x.x.x.x', 'x.x.x.x '.
  $Spec = get-OSCustomizationSpec "tmp01".

  
  #Apply temporary spec
  $VM = get - VM "Server1."
  Get - VM $VM | Get-NetworkAdapter | Together-NetworkAdapter - PortGroup "PortGroup1" - confirm: $false | out-null
  #Errors on this line
  Get - VM $VM | Set-VM - OSCustomizationSpec $Spec - confirm: $false | Start-vm

  Disconnect-VIServer-Server "vCenter" - confirm: $false | out-null

  I gave up trying to clone an existing config a spec just dynamically created in memory, and applied.  It was a LOT easier and had no password problems.

• How to change the existing customization specification?

  I have a few specifications of customization that I created all by deploying the vm model.

  Is it possible to edit this specification with some editor?

  Thank you

  You can change in the specification of customization Manager console. Right-click and select Edit.

  Also, you can import files of responses in xml format to use as customization specification. Never used editors for answers sysprep files MS if Google or someone else need VMTN will tell you all about them.

• public key error trying to import customization specifications

  Hello, I am trying to export sheet customization of my vCenter 4.0 installation and import them into my vCenter 4.1.  When I try to import it to vCenter 4.1, I get this error "Cannot decrypt the password":

  «The public key in the specification, does not match the public key of vCenter.»  Click OK to open the Customization Wizard of specification, retype the password and continue with the import. »

  I can enter the password again and continue the import with no problems, but I don't own any customization specifications and don't know any of the passwords.

  Us would appreciate it if anyone can help please correct me any problem I have with this key public vCenter?

  Thanks in advance!

  Shayne

  sh4yne wrote:

  I can enter the password again and continue the import with no problems, but I don't own any customization specifications and don't know any of the passwords.

  find someone who does, or create new customization techniques.  Because the passwords are encrypted in the customization specification, when you export an environment and in another, you must update the administrator password.

• Customization specification does not

  When I create a machine virtual of RHEL5 using a customization specification in vCenter server, it will not fill default gateway.  Has anyone seen this problem?  She fills the IP, subnet, DNS servers, etc. mask, but not the default gateway.  It's vSphere4

  Thank you!

  If you deploy a machine with multiple network cards, when you modify customization specification and select custom under network settings you configure each vNIC independently.  So you would select just New to add more customizations vNIC and in each of them, you specify a gateway (in addition to the IP address and the subnet mask).  The machine would have a separate default gateway defined for each vNIC.  You should see these files in sysconfig.  By example, if you have 2 NICs for you should see 2 files called route-eth0 and eth1-route in this directory.  These files will have the default gateway defined for eth0 and eth1, respectively.

• SRM customization specifications

  I have a few questions about the specifications of customization for MRS.  The documentation covered extensively the subject.  From documentation fragmented, I can understand only the recovery site customization specification is needed and only retains the intellectual property information.  The rest of the fields are ignored (name, Department, license key, etc.).  If the dr-ip-customizer tool is used to export a new specification of customization on the server in recovery, SRM, the only specified fields are IP related fields.  The rest of the fields in the specification of customization would be missing.  How the mini Setup Wizard can actually reconfigure the virtual machine with these missing fields? In addition, must the sysprep files be installed on the server vCenter recovery?

  Thanks in advance.

  Rick

  Quickprep process that runs during the customization of the stimulus plan doesn't only scratched the IP settings, it is slightly different from that of the standard process of sysprep.  The sysprep files are not necessary on the SRM server, everything you need is installed with MRS.

  -alex

• Location of the files to answer comments customization specification in VirtualCenter?

  Is it possible that I can start the wizard specification of customization of comments on its own, within the VI Client?

  I want to change some of the specifications recorded, without having to start a clone.

  Or are these files answer somewhere on the VirtualCenter server, which can be modified.

  I read somewhere that they were xml files? But could not find a relevant location overlooking my VC server.

  (Comments of personalization is the sysprep Wizard that appears for Windows based on Virtual Machine for model/clone creation)

  Thank you

  MacG

  Yes there is the VIC, click on and then change "customization specifications."

• Customization specification does not work for windows r2 std 2012

  I have a windows 2012 r2 std model VM and when I am trying to deploy a VM from her and the application of the specification to customize.

  After that when I turn on the deployed VM I get error on it and it does not allow me to proceed.

  -What someone faced this kind of problem.

  It is a known problem. Please go through the below items.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2036372

  https://support.Microsoft.com/en-GB/KB/2693187

• Cannot find where to create "Customization Specifications" for the VM

  So I am creating a specification of "customization." I found several articles that point to this: http://screencast.com/t/jMeP2Q4nA2c

  (article: http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=10292)

  But, I have simply connecting to vCenter. That is just missing for me: http://screencast.com/t/MyxVYZpkm

  Where is he to Horizon of VMware View now?

  Thank you.

  What operating system you are trying to create a pool for? Custom features are the "corrected" (if you want) for SysPrep. These are created on the vCenter server and you will need appropriate permissions (if you are not an administrator of vCenter) to make of these. You need it for every single Guest OS (Windows or some Linux distributions) installation (by example, if you had 3 installs different from XP that had different needs, you'd have 3 plug custom, if however, you used a volume license and they had all the same basic settings with DHCP and used the VM name for the name of the computer) you have only one).

  You just 'install' the sysprep files during the setup of XP. Vista and later have the SysPrep files natively installed.

• DR-IP-Customizer customization specification fails on the stimulus Plan

  I have problems with the customization-ip-dr tool provided with MRS. The use of SRM 4.0 and vCenter Server 4.0, the command generate generates enough empty a CSV file with only shadow vm names, vm and a 0 card ID by vm, while each VM has really several adapters and complex information that needs to be filled in the rest of the table.

  VM ID, VM name, ID card, MAC address, domain DNS, Net BIOS, WINS primary, secondary WINS, IP address, subnet, Gateway (s), or the servers DNS, DNS suffixes mask

  shadow-vm-1111, vm-1111, 0,

  shadow-vm-2222, vm-2222, 0,

  shadow-vm-3333, vm-3333, 0,

  shadow-vm-4444, vm-4444, 0,

  I then fill the table and run the command create/recreate, that succeedes in creating the specifications of customization, but stimulus package always runs and fails. My populated csv looks more like:

  VM ID, VM name, ID card, MAC address, domain DNS, Net BIOS, WINS primary, secondary WINS, IP address, subnet, Gateway (s), or the servers DNS, DNS suffixes mask

  shadow-vm-1111, vm-1111, 0,

  shadow-vm-1111, vm-1111, 1, 00:50:56:38:08:11, 10.10.10.10,

  shadow-vm-1111, vm-1111, 2, 00:50:56:13:08:11, 11.11.11.11, 255.255.255.0, 11.11.11.253,

  ..... (continues for all virtual machines of 4 shadow)

  Execution fails on step 5. "Recover Normal priority VMs..." with the error: cannot complete customization.

  I'm not running a test of a race, but am running of the race, because I use SRDF adapter EMC who needs additional licenses / installs the plugin of the VSI and TimeFinder devices to perform the test.

  So is there something wrong with my formatting or information? The tool should not generate spit a fuller csv? I have never seen an example with multiple cards, it doesn't?

  Thank you!

  And if you perform a new analysis of the host bus adapters, VMs receive no State orphand or inaccessible?

• Customization specification Manager problems

  I tried to make a specification of customization for my Windows 2003 SP2 32-bit virtual machines.

  I created the specification, but every time I deploy a virtual computer to use, the host name is incorrect and the SID is never regenerated.

  I searched online and found a Ko of VMware, which States that the appropriate version of sysprep must reside in the specified files.

  I saw that my version was incorrect and downloaded the correct version by using their link.

  Now, I have the appropriate version of sysprep and it still does not work.

  Is there anything that can be the cause?  I am trying to deploy a test with the child domains domain and generate a new sid is a must.

  spraggab wrote:

  The model has installed SEP11.

  It may have to be deployed post install.  This, I believe, is the cause of your problem.  Can you uninstall and again test deployment?

• Customization specifications

  Hello together,

  in order to use automated desktop pools with commissioning you can define specifications of customization within the virtual Center. Do you need to install the utility of syspred somewhere?

  I'm just nedd these settings for an automated office pool?

  What happens if I do not have these settings, and I will deploy 10 VMS in a golden master machine?

  concerning

  Dennis

  It depends how you want to deploy the VM:

  • If you want to use the composer and then clone related, need you nothing else.

  • If you want to deploy VM 'standard' to a model, you can:

  • • Used sysprep directly in the virtual machine (I personally do not like this solution)

    • or put the XP sysprep files in VC (for servers) and so used VC Customization wizard to deploy new virtual machines and customize.

  Concerning

  Eric

• Problem with customization specifications setting Administrator Password Manager

  I have two problems.

  I have a model R2 Windows Server 2012 in a vCenter 5.1 (Build 1123961) environment. I created a vSphere Client Windows customization feedback, however, (and the main issue) I notice that it does not have the administrator password to what I entered after it don't this is sysprep deployment of a model.

  I've created a script around to do this, which works very well, unless I experience my second question. When customization is started, it creates the event "vim.event.Customization.StartedEvent". He is then supposed to create the 'vim.event.CustomizationSucceeded' event once it has successfully managed the customization, including the command sysprep (and setting the password). Occasionally, but does not trigger the event "vim.even.CustomizationSucceeded" until the days or weeks after the initial event of beginning of customization, which will cause the sysprep crush my difficulty scripts and not allow me to log in under the administrator because of the question first, main account.

  Any thought to why sysprep does not have the administrator password to what I specified in the customization of the OS? Or why the successful event of customization does not always raise after it was launched (in minutes and not days/weeks)?

  I ask just once more: the administrator password model guest empty OS?

  vSphere 5.5 Documentation Centre : you can change the administrator password if the password for administrator on the Windows virtual machine is empty. If the model or the Windows virtual machine already has a password, the administrator password does not change.

• XP Service Pack 3 VDI model - deployment use and Windows XP Service Pack 2 deployment tools?  VMWare View, virtual center of customization specification Manager.

  I'm setting up a VMWare View deployment and I need to configure Performance Manager in Virtual Center Customization Tools.  Use the deployment tools XP Service Pack 2 for my model pack 3 XP service or do I have to download SP 3 tools?  Documentation on the internet points to SP 2 tools, but I can't find a definitive answer for XP SP 3 machines.

  I don't think anything changed in Sysprep between XP SP2 and SP3 of XP.  I use Sysprep in an XP SP2 CD deploy.cab file to customize my XP SP3 image with no problems.  You should be able to use Sysprep tools on the CD for SP2 for your model.

• Specifications of customization Manager

  Hello

  How orchestrator can I get a list of the "customization specifications Manager" as "Get-OSCustomizatonSpec" in PowerShell?

  Thank you

  Hello

  Here's a code example

  var vc = VcPlugin.allSdkConnections[0]; // this simply gets the first vCenter; if needed, modify it to match your use case
  var csm = vc.customizationSpecManager;  // get customization spec manager
  var specinfos = csm.info;               // get all customization specs as array of VcCustomizationSpecInfo objects
  for each (var spec in specinfos) {
      // print the name and the type of customization spec
      System.log("Found spec: " + spec.name + " of type: " + spec.type);
  }