Connect-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...
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Hi, I'm trying to put a script together to export the nsx edges (name, version) to their organization in csv format so, it will be easier to see which edges need to be upgraded based on the...
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 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 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 ArticleGet-View -RelatedObject returns error Unable to retrieve related object:...
Hello,I'm having a very strange issue with a bit of code that grabs information on VMs in out vCloud environment. This segment feeds in the names of the Org vDC, a vApp within that Org vDC, and a VM...
View ArticleScript to get NSX Edge and Organization in csv
Hi, I'm trying to put a script together to export the nsx edges (name, version) to their organization in csv format so, it will be easier to see which edges need to be upgraded based on the...
View ArticleUpdating VMware tools & VMhardware version on VM's in vCloud (8.2) Organization
In our environment we only have access to vcloud organization to manage VM's & wanted to upgrade vmware tools & hardware versions in an automated way.We don't have any visibility to...
View ArticleDisplay and remove snapshots from vCloud Director 5.1
Hi All, I've been trying without success to create a PowerCLI script that will report back and delete all snapshot over x days. If I run the vSphere 5.5 PowerCLI commands: Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | Where...
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 ArticleHow to delete vCloud Director SHADOW-VM using PowerCLI
Does anyone know how to delete a shadow-vm using PowerCLI? After creating a vApp Template, we copy it across to other datastores (this step is scripted already). However, doing the copy, creates shadow...
View ArticleStranded Items
Hi Anyone known how to get a list of vCloud stranded items from PowerCLI? RegardsClaus
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 ArticlePowershell to find and delete Stranded Items | vCloud Director 9.1
Hi All. Is there any powershell script to automate the deletion of stranded items in vCloud Director 9.1? Thanks in advance! Alicia T
View ArticleAdd new NIC to VM (like New-CINetworkAdapter)
Hi all I'm trying to find out how to simply add a new NIC to a VM within a vApp. Something like "New-CINetworkAdapter" would be great, but unfortunately does not exist.. Anyone some experience or tipps...
View ArticleCommand for listing all vm's within a vApp ?
This is seemingly simple, however I have yet to find success with this. How do I list all of the vm's in within a vApp along with all of the information about these vm's, namely thier IP, Ram, Compute,...
View ArticleHow to list vApps per Datastore
Hi Am looking for PowerCLI to export list of vApps per Datastore in my vCloud Director environment Get-CIDatastore only gives me information about the datastore, and this object cannot be piped to...
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 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 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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