Report 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 Article"Power On and Force Recustomization" PowerCLI
Hi Guys! I cannot find any solution for recustomization VM in vCloud 5.5. The sample of script: $VM_GL = Get-CIVM -Name VMachine -Org $OrgName -OrgVdc $OrgVdcName -VApp $New_Clone...
View ArticleImport and Export of vApp
Hi All, Is it possible to export vApp using PowerCLI? We have DR requirement which stats - All vApp created in DC-A should be available in DC-B.As long as place holder vApp's are available we always...
View ArticleBuild URLs for: VM Console, vCloud Director vApp, VM properties in vSphere
Hi all I made a script to generate URLs for the following access:- Open a VM's Console in vSphere Web Client- Open vApp (to which the VM corresponds to) in vCloud Director- Open the VM's Summary Tab in...
View ArticleTrouble adding more "CIVM" to a "CIVApp" in vCloud via PowerCLI 5.5
Hi All,I am having trouble performing some tasks in PowerCLI that I can do easily in the GUI. Firstly, in the vCloud Director GUI, I can create a new vApp from a template that has one machine in it. I...
View ArticleSample Script: Creating an Empty vApp with vCloud PowerCLI
Hi Everyone, The New-CIVApp cmdlet does not allow us to create empty vApps (which can be useful when templating out network configurations, for example). This shortcoming can be overcome by calling the...
View Articleget-civm command piped to get-civapp | owner
Basically I've been researching to see how I might pull some reporting data from VCD. I ran across several sites that provide exactly what I am needing, but the problem is they all use the get-civm...
View ArticleModify vApp network - set all to "Retain IP / MAC Resources"
vCloud Director 5.1.3 having a power outage, and looking to modify all vApp networks and set "Reatin IP / MAC Resources" to true so the NAT addresses are retained while vApps are down. Anyone have a...
View ArticleHow to get a vm's chain length?
Hello,I'm trying to automate some consolidation of vms and would like to script it. I have over 800 vms so manually would not work.I'd like to$allVApps = Get-CIVAppforeach($CIVm in ($allVApps |...
View 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 ArticleSample script to modify vApp (Network, Firewall Rules, Start/Stop Order,...
Hi allI would like to share a script I developed the last few days. What the script does:- Add an internal network called "Internal" with NAT/Firewall to a vApp- Add Firewall rules (f.e. RDP)- Set the...
View ArticleChecking the Synchronize time: flag in Virtual Machine Properties (GENERAL)...
Hi, I'm working on a powercli scripts to check whether the flag "Sycronize Time" was checked or not for each VM inside a vApp. I tried to go one by one in all the properties and methods in...
View ArticleAdding a vApp to Catalog in vCD with PowerCLI
I would like add a vApp to a Catalog via PowerCLI. I can't see any methods under the extensiondata of the vApp that allow for this. Then I thought maybe I need to look from the Catalog side and could...
View Articlepowercli 64-bit throws System.OutOfMemoryException
Hi, I am trying to import a multi-vm vApp template in to vCloud Director 1.5 using the import-civapptemplate commandlet. The command fails almost immediately. Any ideas on how to get around this?...
View ArticleFind datastore of CI-VAPPTemplate
Hey folks, in our vCloud environment we need to put a datastore into maintenance mode and make a few adjustments. I've come to find out SDRS only works on VMs and not the vAPPTemplates or Media within...
View ArticlevCloud Director Storage Profiles
Hi all I'm trying to put together a script to setup new Organisation and Virtual Datacentres in our vCloud 5.1 environment. The problem I've come up against is that I can't specific what storage...
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 ArticleAccessing vCloud REST API with Powershell
Hello, I have come to the conclusion that the new vCLoud cmdlets are not enough for what I plan on doing, and I plan to extend upon the cmdlets by using the API via REST. I have been fiddling with...
View ArticleVcloud powerCLi - VM inventory report
HI all, So i wrote this quick script to generate a report of VMs info and more specifically, who owns them. The issue is that I am getting some rows with nothing but the Owner, and all the other...
View ArticleSnapshots with vCloud Director 5.1 & PowerCLI 5.1
(cross-post from vCloud forum) Now that vCloud Director 5.1 supports snapshots, I am looking at the PowerCLI 5.1 cmdlets and cannot find a way to create/manage/revert snapshots. I see it is there in...
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