vCloud Director sVmotion over Powercli
I've created a Script to move VM's over the vCloud Director API to an other Datastore in the same PvDC. (Datastore with the lowest UsedSpace) Here the most important parts:$civm = get-civm...
View ArticleCreate External Networks in Vcloud
I am looking for a way to create Vcloud External Networks with PowerCLI. Does anyone have any experience/examples with this? Thanks
View ArticleGet-ProviderVdc returns Null values for StorageUsedGB StorageAllocatedGB and...
Has anyone else seen this? The Get-OrgVdc does return Storage information but I want to collect it from the Provider VDC PowerCLI C:\Scripts\vmware> Get-ProviderVdc moc-vmcl1101-pvdc Name...
View ArticleScript Slow: VCD Pulling External/Internal IP from Org/vApp
I was curious if any of the script masters could review the following. This works fine, but it is pretty slow. I'm hoping that the speed can be improved. When I query against an organization, vapp,...
View ArticlevCD Powercli question....digging through API
Does anyone know how to extract the DateCreated for vApps and VMs via PowerCLI? The dates are readily available in the DB in dbo.vms, but i can't seem to dig it out via PowerCLI. I've found some...
View ArticleAdd a VM to a vApp using PowerShell
Hello, I am trying to add a VM to a vApp using PowerShell. I know that there is no explicit cmdlet to do it, and I need to recompose the vApp. I've used the great Instantiation script from...
View Articlehow to insert files from physical machines into vmdk
Hi any advise on the script i could use to upload files from host machines in to vmdk directly
View ArticleIssues with vCloud Cmdlets when connecting to a CIServer using SessionID
I'm working on a PowerCLI script that deploys vCloud vApps to multiple OvDCs. The script works great when it's serial, but I have been running into issues when trying to get the deployments to run in...
View ArticlePowerShell Script to move VM's between vCloud vApps
Hi, I am looking to build a powershell script which will allow me to move/migrate the VM's from vApp in a Org vDC to another vApp in another Org vDC in the same organization. I was Import-CIVApp...
View ArticleGet-Task Error
Hi, I get the following error running get-task. I seems to display the first 3000 odd tasks but then errors: PS C:\> get-taskjobDelete Success 100 11:18:48 AM...
View ArticleCreate vDC Storage Profile Help
I am kind of new to all of this, but I wanted to put together a simple script that would automate my team's administration of vCD. Specifically org and org vDC creation, etc. I pieced together this...
View ArticleDoes anyone know how to recompose a vcloud vapp from powercli without having...
I’m struggling to find out how to do this. There doesn’t appear to be much out there (or more likely I can’t find it). It seems to me like this would be a common task, so there must be a way to do...
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 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 ArticleExample for configuring VM's "guest properties" (i.e. OVF settings)
Following is an example for configuring a VM's "guest properties" (in vSphere this is called "OVF settings/environment") using PowerCLI (or API).Note that this script was designed to run as an "org...
View ArticleHow to get allocated ip addresses on a network within a certain Organization...
Hi,I cannot figure out how to list all VMs and their IP Address on a Network of Allocated IP Addresses broken down by Organizations. I can view this in the vCloud GUI "Cloud Resources |Eternal...
View ArticleMigrate CIvAPP from one Resource Pool to another?
Hi, I'm looking for a way to migrate/vmotion the VM's in a CIvApp from 1 resource pool to the another in the same OrgVDC. Basically want to vmotion the VM's to another host. The hosts in the other...
View ArticleTrying to retrieve External Network IP Address from specific vapp
I know this should be simple but having an issue. vCD 5.1 trying to use this script in the vmware help to get a list i can copy and paste into excel to retrieve the vm name and external ip from an...
View ArticleSetting Guest Customization Section Fails in 5.5
Hi, Since migrating to vCloud 5.5 the following script fails which worked in 5.1: $CIVMs = get-CIvApp $CIvAppName | get-civm Foreach ($vm in $CIVMs) { write-host "Customizing" $vm.name...
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...
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