Adding vShield Edge NAT rules from a CSV file using PowerCLI
I recently read Alan's great post on adding NAT rules here: http://www.virtu-al.net/2014/07/24/working-vcd-edge-gateway-rules-powercli/I have used this successfully for single rules in a lab...
View ArticleHow to find the storage of a VM in Cloud director
Hi All, When I use the below command Get-CIVM -OrgVdc "MyOrgVDC1", it lists all the VMs under the Organization VDC. And for each VM it gives the vCPU and Memory details. I also want the storage of the...
View Articlevshield edge Command Line / Power CLI Script for installation
Hi All, Could you please share the commands / powerl cli script to install vshiled Edge Installation. We need to automate the Vshiled Edge Installation on Port Group. Regards,Sunil I B
View ArticleSet Mac address of vCloud VM
Hi For a customer I need to regularly clone a production VM into vCloud for a test-environment. The VM needs to have an identical Mac Address because of some old-fashioned licenses. After cloning, the...
View ArticleConnect-CIServer -Server vcloud.ourdomain.com Issues
Hi I have now tried PowerCLI with ESX and vCenter, so far so good.We have a vCLoud Area as well (v5.5) So when i listed the VMs in vCenter, for area folder 'vCloud Director' this worked but the links...
View ArticlePowerCLI/API for update storage profile in vDC
Hi,I found how to add or remove storage profile via vcloud API (VMware vCloud Director Documentation Center), but does anyone know how to do update (change size or disable) storage profile via API or...
View ArticleGet vDC Storage Policy quota
Hello. I want to retrieve the storage policies quota assigned to an Org vDC using PowerCLI. I initially tried to retrieve this information using $orgvDC.StorageLimitGB but this gives me the sum of the...
View ArticlePowerCLI 5.0.1 vCloud cmdlets: get-orgvdc bug, ProviderVdcReference.id...
Hi, 1) Get-OrgVdc bug If your vDC name contains space (e.g. "my vDC"), the following command will fail because the REST API call is not urlencoded (%20 instead of space):$all_powered_on_vms =...
View ArticleHow can i add a nic to a vapp deployed by vcd1.5
Hi any advise how i can add a nic to a vapp using power cli i'm have powercli 4.1 with vcentre 4.1 U1
View ArticleHow to find the storage of a VM in Cloud director
Hi All, When I use the below command Get-CIVM -OrgVdc "MyOrgVDC1", it lists all the VMs under the Organization VDC. And for each VM it gives the vCPU and Memory details. I also want the storage of the...
View ArticleHow can I get a vCloud VM's NIC type?
I'm trying to write a script that will compare the NIC type in vCloud to the NIC type in vCenter to help workaround a bug in vCloud 1.5. I can get a vCenter VM's NIC type by getting the vCenter VM and...
View ArticleDeploy vApp from template while giving the deployed vApp a name, the VMs...
Hello, I am trying to deploy a vApp from a template in the catalog, I have been successful creating the vApp using...
View ArticleHow to rename a CivApp?
Hi, Trying to do the simplest task of renaming a CIvApp with PowerCLI. $civapp = Get-CIvApp "Test" $newname = $civapp.Name + "_OLD" Set-CIVApp -vApp $civapp -Name $newname Set-CIVApp : 8/6/2013...
View ArticleReport containing vCloud vApps names w/ source vApp template names
Can I use PowerCLI to list vCD vApps along with their source vApp Template? I'm looking for something like the following: vApp NamevApp Template NamevApp1vApp2vApp3LAMP-1.2LAMP-1.2SharePoint-1.5...
View ArticleCreating new Organization with specific Storage Profile
Been working on this a few hours now, but just can't seem to get it to work. Creating an organization with the Any(*) storage profile works, but as soon as i remove that profile and leave only the ones...
View ArticleGet-Org failure on Win 8.1 PS 4.0
I've got a script to deploy v-apps on the cloud but on Windows 8.1 with PowerShell 4.0 the Get-OrgVcd fails. It returns nothing whereas on Win7 with Powersehll 3.0 it does return the Org. does anyone...
View ArticlevCloud Director Change e1000 to VMXNET3 Online
Hi Guys, I have been made aware of a VMware KB that is supposed to have a script that allows the change of a primary NIC from e1000 / Flexible to VMXNET3 online and it interacts with VMTools to notify...
View ArticleHow to get a vm's chain length?
Hello,I'm trying to automate some consolidation of vms and would like to script it. I have over 800 vms so manually would not work.I'd like to$allVApps = Get-CIVAppforeach($CIVm in ($allVApps |...
View ArticleAdding vShield Edge NAT rules from a CSV file using PowerCLI
I recently read Alan's great post on adding NAT rules here: http://www.virtu-al.net/2014/07/24/working-vcd-edge-gateway-rules-powercli/I have used this successfully for single rules in a lab...
View ArticleSetting properties of VMs in a vApp
I have a few vApps with 25 VMs each in vCloud Director and would like to set a few properties to on / off with PowerCLI as the gui is a mission. These options include: Set "Enable guest customization"...
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