I am using method mentioned below by william Lam for pulling report of overhead memory. It works great for a single VM however when i try it for all vm's it just populate
data on the screen and do not export it in the export path file.
Command using for exporting overhead memory for all the vm's
Get-VM | Get-VMMemOverhead | Export-Xlsx -Path D:\overhead.xlsx -WorksheetName HA
It shows the result in the screen but do not export.
Best Regards,
Deepak Koshal
Hello, kindly pls. assist me what is the commandline or script to add user (user admin) to multiple Stand alone cisco ucs server , same ip range, same username and pass
via powershell/powertool script instead of manually login to cimc cisco console.
Thank you
Hello! I would like to ask assistance to create a powershell script that can pull the following multiple
NFS datastore1, datastore2, mounted to multiple ESXi v5/v6 Host in a VCenter and the possibility to send schedule email report.
sample output should be like this.
Datastorename RemotePath RemoteHost VMname UsedSpaceGB ProvisionedSpaceGB ownerfolder
Datastore1 /vol/datastore1/a1 192.168.192.10 VM1 30 80 OS1
Hope someone can assist me, thank you in advance
How to trace a VM disk to a guest disk
No voodoo involved. If you’re a Linux person then the mechanics of this process should work for you also. For Windows people I'll include some PowerShell code that should work in Server 2008 and later (requires PowerCLI, and uses WMI).
How to trace a disk:
Works great in my environment but certainly not claiming it will work everywhere. What I know for sure:
This code is just hacked together. No error handling - if it bombs it bombs. Just connect to your VI server (script does NOT do this) and edit $vmName to match the server you want to check.
Enjoy
$vmName = "cheezburger"
## modification below here not necessary to run ##
#get windows disks via wmi
$cred = if ($cred){$cred}else{Get-Credential}
$win32DiskDrive = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_DiskDrive -ComputerName $vmName -Credential $cred
#get vm hard disks and vm datacenter and virtual disk manager via PowerCLI
#does not connect to a vi server for you! you should already be connected to the appropraite vi server.
$vmHardDisks = Get-VM -Name $vmName | Get-HardDisk
$vmDatacenterView = Get-VM -Name $vmName | Get-Datacenter | Get-View
$virtualDiskManager = Get-View -Id VirtualDiskManager-virtualDiskManager
#iterates through each windows disk and assign an alternate disk serial number value if not a vmware disk model
#required to handle physical mode RDMs, otherwise this should not be needed
foreach ($disk in $win32DiskDrive)
{
#add a AltSerialNumber NoteProperty and grab the disk serial number $disk | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name AltSerialNumber -Value $null $diskSerialNumber = $disk.SerialNumber #if disk is not a VMware disk set the AltSerialNumber property if ($disk.Model -notmatch 'VMware Virtual disk SCSI Disk Device') { #if disk serial number is 12 characters convert it to hex if ($diskSerialNumber -match '^\S{12}$') { $diskSerialNumber = ($diskSerialNumber | foreach {[byte[]]$bytes = $_.ToCharArray(); $bytes | foreach {$_.ToString('x2')} } ) -join '' } $disk.AltSerialNumber = $diskSerialNumber }
}
#iterate through each vm hard disk and try to correlate it to a windows disk
#and generate some results!
$results = @()
foreach ($vmHardDisk in $vmHardDisks)
{
#get uuid of vm hard disk / and remove spaces and dashes $vmHardDiskUuid = $virtualDiskManager.queryvirtualdiskuuid($vmHardDisk.Filename, $vmDatacenterView.MoRef) | foreach {$_.replace(' ','').replace('-','')} #match vm hard disk uuid to windows disk serial number $windowsDisk = $win32DiskDrive | where {$_.SerialNumber -eq $vmHardDiskUuid} #if windowsDisk not found then try to match the vm hard disk ScsiCanonicalName to the AltSerialNumber set previously if (-not $windowsDisk) { $windowsDisk = $win32DiskDrive | where {$_.AltSerialNumber -eq $vmHardDisk.ScsiCanonicalName.substring(12,24)} } #generate a result $result = "" | select vmName,vmHardDiskDatastore,vmHardDiskVmdk,vmHardDiskName,windowsDiskIndex,windowsDiskSerialNumber,vmHardDiskUuid,windowsDiskAltSerialNumber,vmHardDiskScsiCanonicalName $result.vmName = $vmName.toupper() $result.vmHardDiskDatastore = $vmHardDisk.filename.split(']')[0].split('[')[1] $result.vmHardDiskVmdk = $vmHardDisk.filename.split(']')[1].trim() $result.vmHardDiskName = $vmHardDisk.Name $result.windowsDiskIndex = if ($windowsDisk){$windowsDisk.Index}else{"FAILED TO MATCH"} $result.windowsDiskSerialNumber = if ($windowsDisk){$windowsDisk.SerialNumber}else{"FAILED TO MATCH"} $result.vmHardDiskUuid = $vmHardDiskUuid $result.windowsDiskAltSerialNumber = if ($windowsDisk){$windowsDisk.AltSerialNumber}else{"FAILED TO MATCH"} $result.vmHardDiskScsiCanonicalName = $vmHardDisk.ScsiCanonicalName $results += $result
}
#sort and then output the results
$results = $results | sort {[int]$_.vmHardDiskName.split(' ')[2]}
$results | ft -AutoSize
Looking to see how people go about using templates to deploy RHEL7 servers. The challenge I am seeing with this is getting the MAC Address and IP information to update what we put in DHCP/DNS. Or what process are you using to build servers based off of customers spec request?
feedback/thoughts much appreciated
Hello Experts,
I'm in the process of preparing a script to change some VMs names. I prepared the script and applied it on PowerCli to change VM names on the fly (VMs were powered on). However, when i was checking the VM files (get-harddisk), i noticed that the VM files are still keeping the old VM names and it did not reflect the new VM name. I have performed a little bit of a research and i did find a few remedies for that but they all require the VM to be down.
so my first question, is there a way to change the VM name and its files names on the fly while the VM is powered on? If the change cannot be done on the fly and VMs must be powered off what is the easiest and cleanest way to do it?
I could see two possible solutions for it, one of them is to change the VM name and then try cold migration of the VM to another data store or another host and then move it back to the original host and this should trigger the VM to change its file names to reflect the new name. the second possible solution is to follow the steps of Renaming virtual machine files in-place using the console in this link (Renaming a virtual machine and its files in VMware ESXi and ESX (1029513) | VMware KB ). Your help is always appreciated. Thanks
Hi All,
I have frequently few esxi hosts goes out of domain or my AD group permissions will go away in my infrastructure..sometime its count will be more around 50+.
To login each host add them in domain and add my AD group is lengthy process.
Is there a script which can do it in single shot, for below requirement.
Script should
1. Connect all my vCenters
2. Pick the host from Get-Content ( which will have my hosts which are out of domain)
3. Should ask the default ESXi root password
4. Should take host in Maintenance Mode
5. Then it should join the esxi host in domain
6. Then it should add my AD group
7. Finally Exit from maintenance mode
8. Export the output report in CSV which all host it could able to join domain and add AD group and exited it from Maintenance Mode.
Thanks a Ton in Advance.
how to get sessions use powercli.this is no get-sessions command.
I have a csv with 2 columns. First column is a list of vmguest names and the second is an annotation I want to add to those vmguests. I basically want to add a unique key for each vmguest. So I'm using this script.
csv file
vmguestname,vmguestkey
name1,key1
name2,key2
name3,key3
script
$csv = (Import-Csv "annotations.csv")
$vmguestkey = ($csv.vmguestkey)
$vmguestname = ($csv.vmguestname)
foreach ($computer in $vmguestname){
Set-Annotation-Entity $computer -CustomAttribute "Key" -Value $vmguestkey
}
When I run the script I get a message
Set-Annotation : Cannot convert 'System.Object[]' to the type 'System.String' required by parameter 'Value'. Specified method is not supported.
Any idea what could I be doing wrong?
Hello
Following Tomas Fojta's blog post
How to Export Running VM from vCloud Director – Tom Fojta's Blog
I'm looking for a way to automate step 4: Remove vCloud Director related Custom Attribute on a set of powered on VMs
I gave a try with powerCLI, this gives the below error to me, whether the VM is powered on or off by the way.
PowerCLI E:\LabShare\Scripts> $vm.CustomFields.remove(“system.service.vmware.vsla.fraise”)
Exception calling “Remove” with “1” argument(s): “Cannot remove value from a
read-only dictionary.”
At line:1 char:1
+ $vm.CustomFields.remove(“system.service.vmware.vsla.fraise”)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperationException
Help welcome !
thanks
Hi,
I'm trying to tag multiple VM's in a large environment (thousands).
I'm hoping that I can read the contents of a csv and use PowerCLI to do the Tagging
cvs format would be
MyServer1,ApplicationNameXxxx
MyServer1,ApplicationNameBbbb
What I have so far is
$tc = New-TagCategory -Name "Application Name"
Get-Content -Path c:\VMTags.csv | ConvertFrom-Csv -Header VMname,Tag | foreach {
if (!(Get-Tag -Name $_.tag)) {
$t = $tc | New-Tag $_.tag
}
Get-VM -Name $_.VMname | New-TagAssignment -Tag $t -Confirm:$false
}
My intention is
Thanks
I need to do several monthly checks on my vCenters for permissions and Policies. I have found a command that will output permissions for me but I am struggling to find a command that will output the vCenter SSO Configuration Password Policy settings. Can anyone help me with what I need?
I'm trying to use a text file that includes an extensive list of VM's i want excluded from an output. The problem is when i run the script and it goes to exclude a larger number of VM's it throws AggregateException
Here's a sample:
$GetAllVms = Get-VM
$VMXNET3OneOffException = get-content "C:\scripts\ComplianceScriptBundle\ExceptionFiles\OneOffExceptions\Vmxnet3OneOffException.txt"
$GetAllVMs | Get-NetworkAdapter | Where-object {($VMXNET3WildcardException -notcontains $_.parent)} | select parent
Also if i remove this text file OR have a smaller list it will work fine.
I know you can have exclusions in the script itself but I'm trying to make it easier to view the script and change exclusions.
Any ideas would be helpful. thanks!
Hi,
Vcenter alerts are present in the GUI, but I don't know how to obtain them from CLI. Anyone know the property / connection?
I'm writing an advanced function to query for the Alarms depicted in the Vsphere 6.2 Web GUI, in the Alarms Pane. Via PowerShell I can query .ExtensionData.TriggeredAlarms for VMs and ESX hosts and obtain the results required. What I can't seem to find, is where to find Vcenter Specific alerts. Worded another way, alerts that apply to the Vcenter itself, not to the VM running the Vcenter. Example alerts from my lab are Certificate Status, vpxd turned green from yellow, database space is low. Connecting directly to the Vcenter (Get-VC), doesn't intuitively (to me) reveal where the alarm data is. Or is it elsewhere? I'm not searching for definitions - I'm searching for the live alerts.
Thanks
JoeA
Hi Luc,
Need your help in redcuing the script run time. I've created the below script to combine powernsx and powercli to get the report that i wanted, But it is taking hours to complete the report. Can this be tweaked by changing anything?
I have 8 Nsx server so it is taking 9hrs to complete. :(
$report =@()
$cred = get-credential
Get-Module -ListAvailable | where{$_.Name -match "vmware*"} | Import-Module
Import-Module PowerNSX
foreach ($test in $nsx){
Connect-NsxServer $test -Username admin -Password xxxxxx -VICred $cred
$sectags = Get-NsxSecurityTag |where {$_.vmcount -ne "0"} | foreach{$_.name}
foreach ($tag in $sectags){
$data = Get-NsxSecurityTag -Name $tag | Get-NsxSecurityTagAssignment | select Virtualmachine
$data | Add-Member -Name "Security Tag" -Value $tag -MemberType NoteProperty
$data | Add-Member -Name "Server" -Value $test -MemberType NoteProperty
$report += $data
}
Disconnect-NsxServer
}
hi,
i have a script that use the Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter cmdlet.
it runs on several esxi server (5.5u3) but other fail with the following error:
| Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter : 03/08/2017 09:53:25 | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter | Value cannot be null. | |
| Parameter name: key |
At line:4 char:76
+ ... .xxx.internal" | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter | Where ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.Host.GetVMHostNetworkAdapter
i can't figure out what is the difference between the hosts (as they installed from the same iso, use the same profile etc..)
Example:
PS M:\> Get-VMHost "pru-esx01.xxx.internal" | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter
Name Mac DhcpEnabled IP SubnetMask DeviceName
---- --- ----------- -- ---------- ----------
vmnic0 00:25:xx:xx:00:00 False vmnic0
vmnic1 00:25:xx:xx:00:00 False vmnic1
vmnic10 00:25:xx:xx:00:05 False vmnic10
vmnic11 00:25:xx:xx:00:05 False vmnic11
vmnic2 00:25:xx:xx:00:01 False vmnic2
vmnic3 00:25:xx:xx:00:01 False vmnic3
vmnic4 00:25:xx:xx:00:02 False vmnic4
vmnic5 00:25:xx:xx:00:02 False vmnic5
vmnic6 00:25:xx:xx:00:03 False vmnic6
vmnic7 00:25:xx:xx:00:03 False vmnic7
vmnic8 00:25:xx:xx:00:04 False vmnic8
vmnic9 00:25:xx:xx:00:04 False vmnic9
vmk0 00:25:xx:xx:00:00 False 10.xxx.xxx.40 255.255.255.0 vmk0
vmk1 00:50:xx:xx:63:22 False 30.30.30.1 255.255.255.0 vmk1
vmk4 00:50:xx:xx:b2:d7 False 10.xxx.xxx.1 255.255.255.224 vmk4
vmk3 00:50:xx:xx:c5:cf False vmk3
PS M:\> Get-VMHost "pru-esx05.xxx.internal" | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter
Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter : 03/08/2017 10:28:30 Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: key
At line:1 char:63
+ ... sx05.oob.ramportal.eng.pelephone.internal" | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.Host.GetVMHostNetworkAdapter
any help will be appreciated.
thanks
mordechai
Hi Guys,
So the goal is, to remove the redundant Permissions which you can see in the screenshot below. I'm not a PowerCLI Expert so I am looking for some guidance to do this. Environment is quiet large so scripting would be preferable.
The screenshot below shows that the Folder Permission is the same as the individual VM Permission. We want to remove all of the VM permissions which match the folder permission.
Here is the Pseudo code which I want to accomplish:
Where Folder Permission == VM Permission
$permission == VM Permission
$vm == VM Name
Remove $permission from $vm
I found the remove permission command:
Remove-VIPermission -Permission $permission -Confirm:$false
At the moment we currently have CSV files for each vCenter which lists the following:
foreach($vCenter in $vCenters)
{
Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenter.FQDN -Credential $credentials
Get-VIPermission | select role, principal, entity, UID | export-csv "c:\temp\$vCenter.FQDN-permissions.csv"
}
Any help much appreciated!
trying to get a list of my nic
$vmhosts = get-cluster "XXX" | get-vmhost
foreach ($vmhost in $vmhosts) {
$esxcli = get-esxcli -vmhost $vmhost
$esxcli.network.nic.list() | select *
}\
how do I add the vmhost in there?
Hello All, Can any one suggest me a script that should possible with below conditions. 1) Need create clone for every day 2 PM EST and that clone should be automatically deleted after 7 days. 2) Clone name format should be "Backup_MMDDYY" and the clone should be placed on "VM_BACKUPS" folder. 3) And it should be placed only in local datastore which has more than 150 GB freespace. 4) Once clone is completed or else failed to take a clone, need send an email. Thanks!!
Message was edited by: a.ß. - Changed title from all caps.
Hello all,
Im looking for a script to export all network and vlan info across multiple clusters in one datacenter. This would only be the Network info and none of the hardware info. I will use this to build out a new dvswitch.
Thank you,