hello
New-VICredentialStoreItem -Host vCenterServer01 -User JColeman -Password ((get-credential).GetNetworkCredential().password)
this is nice way to store info without typing passwd
issue
1. i am in windows10 laptop in domain x
2. vcenter is in AD domain y
3. my username & passwd of domain y i need to use from laptop connected to domain X, how can i use this cmd in such case ?
Note : my laptop is not joined to domain Y.
thx
Get-Tag : 3/15/2018 5:55:27 AM Get-Tag There was no endpoint listening at
https://tavc.itislab.com/lookupservice/sdk that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address
or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-Tag
+ ~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-Tag], VimException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Core_BaseCmdlet_UnknownError,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.Tagging.GetTag
Hello All,
This is the issue being faced, where I am trying to automate, using Powercli command.
If someone, can please help me find a solution or link to follow the document, would be a great help.
Regards,
Suhail
I have been trying to find a way to recompose our VDI Pools via PowerCli and find only references to old deprecated PowerCli commands.
Does anyone know how to kick off a recompose with the current version of PowerCli?
I found the commands to get allocated memory and cpu per vm but would like to collect what each vm is actually using.
I am trying to get the CentOS Version by PowerCLI.
I am using this cmdlt:
Get-VM | Select-Object @{N="Name";E={$_.Guest.VM}},@{N="OS";E={$_.Guest.OSFullName}} | Format-Table
It works perfect for Windows Server, but CentOS Server shows 「CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64bit)」
I want to have which version the CentOS is running on.
Does anyone know how to do it or if it is even possible...
Hello,
I am trying to create VMkernels with TCP/IP stack 'vmotion' but I do not see anywhere it is feasible.
Does anybody know?
Thanks
Fred
Can someone help me with formatting the output of this script into an easily readable CSV?
Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.Core
Import-Module VMware.VimAutomation.VDS
Connect-VIServer -Server X.X.X.X -Protocol https -User administrator@vsphere.local -Password password
$VMhosts = Get-VMHost
$hosts = $VMhosts.Name
foreach($i in $hosts){
echo $i
$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $i
$x=$Esxcli.network.nic.list() | Select-Object *, @{N="FirmwareVersion"; E={$Esxcli.network.nic.get($_.name).driverinfo.firmwareVersion}}, @{N="Version"; E={$Esxcli.network.nic.get($_.name).driverinfo.Version}}
$y = $esxcli.software.vib.list() | Where-Object {$_.ID -Like "*ixgbe*"}
echo $y | Select-Object -Property ID
echo $x | Select-Object -Property Name,Version
}
Morning,
We upgraded our server from VMware 5.5 to 6.5. The script that we previously used to gather all the tag information worked until the upgrade to 6.5. Here is the script:
Get-VM | Select Name,
@{N="Contact";E={((Get-TagAssignment -Entity $_ -Category Contact | select -ExpandProperty Tag).Name )}},
@{N="Purpose";E={((Get-TagAssignment -Entity $_ -Category Purpose | select -ExpandProperty Tag).Name )}},
@{N="Patch";E={((Get-TagAssignment -Entity $_ -Category Patch | select -ExpandProperty Tag).Name )}},
@{N="Lifecycle";E={((Get-TagAssignment -Entity $_ -Category Lifecycle | select -ExpandProperty Tag).Name )}},
@{N="Application";E={((Get-TagAssignment -Entity $_ -Category Application | select -ExpandProperty Tag).Name )}},
@{N="Platform";E={((Get-TagAssignment -Entity $_ -Category Platform | select -ExpandProperty Tag).Name )}},
@{N="PCI";E={((Get-TagAssignment -Entity $_ -Category PCI | select -ExpandProperty Tag).Name )}},
@{N="Environment";E={"Vmware Corp"}},
@{N="IP Address";E={@($_.Guest.IPAddress)}} |
ConvertTo-Csv -NoTypeInformation |
out-file "E:\Staging\ServerInventory\CSV\gswpvcnt001.csv"
The current issue is that all tag information cannot be pulled. The only information that is gathered and exported to a .csv file is the name, environment and ip address. No tagging information is provided.
Help!
I am trying to use the amazing vCheck script but to send an email I require an authentication setting and cannot figure out how to do this.
Thank you,
Andy
Hello,
I need a script to find the windows VM's without VM tools installed and install VM tools without rebooting a VM using PoweCLI or PowerShell.
Thanks,
Ganesh
Hello,
I'm getting an error with the command Stop-VM.
This is the script i'm trying to run :
&{foreach($vm in Get-Folder "Sandbox" | Get-VM)
{
if ($vm.PowerState -eq "poweredOn"){
$vm | Stop-VM -Kill -Confirm:$false
}
}
}
and here is the error i'm getting :
I get the same error with
&{foreach($vm in Get-Folder "Sandbox" | Get-VM)
{
if ($vm.PowerState -eq "poweredOn"){
Stop-VM -VM $vm.Name -Kill -Confirm:$false
}
}
}
For info I'm running this script from a VM (Ubuntu 16.04) and I'm using VMware.PowerCLI 10.0.0.7895300, Powershell v6.0.2 and a vCenter 5.5.
Thanks
Now that we have a new version of PowerCLI being developed, could I get some people behind me to try to get the developers to add compatibility for PowerCLI cmdlets with the PoshRSJob module? I have been struggling with this for about a year now, and I think this may be the opportunity to actually get it done. What is the formal process for submitting something like this to the devs? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Below is an example of my issue. I use the script below and get the following error from most jobs. It has something to do with the global DefaultVIServer and DefaultVIServers variables.
$vCenters = @(
"<vcenterservername1>"
"<vcenterservername2>"
)
Get-RSJob | Stop-RSJob | Remove-RSJob -Force
$Credential = Get-Credential
Connect-VIServer $vCenters -WarningAction SilentlyContinue -Credential $Credential -ErrorAction Stop | Out-Null
$VMHosts = $null
$VMHosts = Get-VMHost -ErrorAction Stop
Disconnect-VIServer * -Confirm:$false | Out-Null
$VMHosts | Start-RSJob -Name {$_} -Throttle 100 -ModulesToImport VMware.VimAutomation.Core -ScriptBlock {
$VMHost = $_
try {
Connect-VIServer $Using:vCenters -WarningAction SilentlyContinue -Credential $Using:Credential -ErrorAction Stop | Out-Null
$VMHostAuth = Get-VMHostAuthentication -VMHost $VMHost.Name -ErrorAction Stop
[PSCustomObject][Ordered]@{
VMHost = $VMHost.Name
Status = "SUCCESS"
Domain = $VMHostAuth.Domain
}
}
catch {
[PSCustomObject][Ordered]@{
VMHost = $VMHost.Name
Status = "FAILURE"
Domain = $_.Exception.Message
}
}
Disconnect-VIServer * -Confirm:$false | Out-Null
}
$Results = Get-RSJob | Wait-RSJob | Receive-RSJob
$Results | ogv
Below is the error that I receive from most jobs:
Disconnect-VIServer : You have modified the global:DefaultVIServer and global:DefaultVIServers system variables. This is not allowed. Please reset them to $null and reconnect to the vSphere server.
At H:\Scripts\PowerCLI\Jobs\JobTest.ps1:9 char:1
+ Disconnect-VIServer * -Confirm:$false -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Disconnect-VIServer], InvalidState
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Types.V1.ErrorHandling.InvalidState,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.DisconnectVIServer
Hello,
I am having a bit of a challenge getting PowerCLI 10 to connect to my vCenter server (VCSA 6.0 U3). When I run the Connect-VIServer command I get the following error:
Connect-VIServer : Method not found: 'Void VMware.Binding.Sts.VmwareSecruityTokenService..ctor(System.Uri)'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Connect-VIServer vcsa6.corp.pep.tst
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Connect-VIServer], MissingMethodException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.MissingMethodException,VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.ConnectVIServ
er
I thought the error was due to an invalid certificate, but running Get-PowerCLIConfiguration you can see I have it set to ignore:
PS C:\> Get-PowerCLIConfiguration
Scope ProxyPolicy DefaultVIServerMode InvalidCertificateAction DisplayDeprecationWarnings WebOperationTimeout
Seconds
----- ----------- ------------------- ------------------------ -------------------------- -------------------
Session UseSystemProxy Single Ignore True 300
User Single Ignore
AllUsers Ignore
The connect fails after I input my vCenter credentials using both AD credentials and SSO Administrator. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in Advance!
I feel daft for asking this as i'm pretty sure it's not a powercli problem but a me problem - yet i cannot figure it.
I basically i'm trying to get the uptime of every o/s (using the exsi info sys.uptime.latest proved a little inaccurate for our estate unfortunatley) . so i'm trying to pass through the command
(Date)-([Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDateTime((gwmi Win32_OperatingSystem).LastBootUpTime)) to the invoke-vmscript.
it keeps telling me the input string is in the incorrect format, yet if i run it locally on any VM, it runs fine. what on god's earth am i doing wrong to make powercli pass it through incorrectly.
This is how the command is stored before it's invoked:
$InvokeScriptParam =@{
ScriptText = "(Date)-([Management.ManagementDateTimeConverter]::ToDateTime((gwmi Win32_OperatingSystem).LastBootUpTime))"
VM = $VM.Name
GuestCredential = $VMCredential
ErrorAction = "stop"
ScriptType = 'Powershell'
}
on the flip side, when invoking the equivilent command on a linux machine via the above, formatting doesn't seem to be a problem and it reports back correctly.
cheers
Hi,
I can deploy an ovf from vcenter ui without having to specify a host. From the web ui I only need to specify a cluster. Is there a powercli equivalent to do the same? I tried import-vapp however that requires vmhost (mandatory) to be specified. I want vcenter to choose a host without me needing to specify a host. Am I using the wrong powercli api or is this possible from powercli? I am using powercli 10.0.
Hi,
We have a new Datacenter under our vCenter with 6 new hosts. I have been using RVTools for a while, and i noticed now that in case of the new datacenter, the Network and Switch names are missing in the vNetwork table.
What could be the problem?
Dear Team,
Most of the time i'm getting below error , don't what what mistake i'm doing kindly assist me on the same
if I run below command at that time also i'm getting same error.
Get-HardDisk VMName | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq “Hard Disk 2”} | Set-HardDisk -CapacityGB 10 -Confirm:$false
I'm trying to setup vCheck as a scheduled task but it keeps prompting for credentials when running as a batch file.
I've added the credential using the following command.
New-VICredentialStoreItem-Hostmyvc-User administrator@vsphere.local-Passwordpassword - File c:\scripts\vcpwd.xml
In the connection plugin for vcenter, I've added the following lines to pull the credentials but it's not working. Am I missing further steps here or what is the cause?
$Credfile = "C:\scripts\vcpwd.xml"
$Creds = Get-VICredentialStoreItem -Host $VIServer -File "C:\scripts\vcpwd.xml"
The .bat file string is as follows: C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe -File "C:\scripts\vCheck-vSphere-master\vCheck.ps1
Hey guys,
Looking for help from a PowerCLI master...
I would like a script that would list all datastores for multiples vCenters in a csv format.
The columns would be Datastore Name, Capacity (GB), Provisionned Space (GB), Free Space (GB), Free Space (%), Host, Cluster, vCenter
I found one that exports it in HTML that is pretty good but I would like to have it in a CSV.
(Script Get DataStore Usage Report on email. )
Let me know if you can help me!
Thanks!
