Unable to connect to VCloud Director 5.1 build 5.1.1.868405
Hi. We are not able to connect to a VCloud Director ver. 5.1.1 868405. When we try a: connect-ciserver we get the following error: Connect-CIServer The underlying connection was closed: The...
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 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 ArticleHow to delete a deployed VApp using vCloud Dir PowerCLI commands
Using vCloud 1.5 and PowerCLI, along with some nifty scripts I found online, I can instantiate a vCloud VApp Template and can start and stop the VApp as well, all through vCloud....
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...
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 Articleexporting firewall/NAT rules from Edge Gateway
Anyone using a powerCLI script to output firewall/nat rules for Edge Gateways (ver 5.1.2) configured on Org VDC networks for documenation purposes? I've been able to pull plenty of information using...
View ArticleAutomating vCloud: "Disable Host" and "Redeploy All VMs"
Are these two functions available through any API/SDK? I cannot seem to find it for PowerCLI or the REST interfaces. Perhaps I am reading outdated/incorrect documentation? Any help would be great! Thanks.
View ArticleExport/Import Org Networks and Shared?
Has anyone got ideas on exporting the details of all Org Networks within an Organiztion and/or importing them from CSV? I get requests for this, but do not know Get-CIView very well. The first OvDC...
View ArticleHow to change Storage Profile of VM in vAppTemplate?
Hi everyone, I've got a project in front of me to migrate existing VMs from an existing storage profile or the * profile to a newly created storage profile. I've determined how to get this done for...
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" $vm.name...
View ArticleImport-CIVAppTemplate is erroring out with DiskContentsPending error in vCD
Hi, I am trying the Import-CIVAppTemplate command in PowerCLI for vCloud Director and it is failing as below after some 15% completion.The vAppTemplate import never succeeds after this error.I am...
View ArticleSetting properties of VMs in a vApp
I have a few vApps with 25 VMs each in vCloud Director and would like to set a few properties to on / off with PowerCLI as the gui is a mission. These options include: Set "Enable guest customization"...
View ArticleDTD is prohibited in this XML document
I am trying to use "connect-ciserver <servername>", and after entering my credentials, I get the following error message: Connect-CIServer : 5/10/2012 2:22:57 PM Connect-CIServer For...
View ArticleExample for configuring VM's "guest properties" (i.e. OVF settings)
Following is an example for configuring a VM's "guest properties" (in vSphere this is called "OVF settings/environment") using PowerCLI (or API).Note that this script was designed to run as an "org...
View ArticleStart-Job with PowerCLI not working
This script never gets past the first write-host line in the start-job... # Do work$csv = Import-Csv tmpbuild.csv foreach ($item in $csv) { Start-Job -RunAs32 -ScriptBlock { # Add...
View ArticlevCloud Director sVmotion over Powercli
I've created a Script to move VM's over the vCloud Director API to an other Datastore in the same PvDC. (Datastore with the lowest UsedSpace) Here the most important parts:$civm = get-civm...
View 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 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 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...
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