Sample 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 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" $vm.name...
View ArticleHow to delete a deployed VApp using vCloud Dir PowerCLI commands
Using vCloud 1.5 and PowerCLI, along with some nifty scripts I found online, I can instantiate a vCloud VApp Template and can start and stop the VApp as well, all through vCloud....
View ArticleDeploy vApp from template while giving the deployed vApp a name, the VMs...
Hello, I am trying to deploy a vApp from a template in the catalog, I have been successful creating the vApp using...
View ArticleScripting on a multitenant vCDirector environment
Hello, we're running vCloud Director 1.5 serving several customers/organizations. Some of them asked us if possible to execute scripts, as Amazon does, to stop, start, restart VMs inside their...
View ArticleHow to Reset Mac address of a VM through REST API?
Hi All, How to Reset Mac address of a VM through REST API? Thanks in Advance.
View ArticleSample script to modify vApp (Network, Firewall Rules, Start/Stop Order,...
Hi allI would like to share a script I developed the last few days. What the script does:- Add an internal network called "Internal" with NAT/Firewall to a vApp- Add Firewall rules (f.e. RDP)- Set the...
View ArticleError when cloning a VM related to vCloud Director
Hey there!I have the following cmdlet: New-VM -Name ClonedVM -VM SourceVM -Datastore NewDS -VMHost ESXi -Location Folder -Confirm:$false The problem is that I'm trying to clone a VM that is a part of...
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Connect-CIServer - Qwirks
Initially when i did the Connect-CIServer i had a -Org "DevTest" Later when i decided to change this in the reporting function per org i ran into trouble. The line with the -SaveCredentials works...
View ArticleHow do you resize a CIVM disk?
Wasn't sure if this is possible w/ PowerCLI and the current vCloud module.
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 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 ArticleGet and Set NAT config
Hi all, I am trying to read and write the NAT config for a larger vApp with complex rules with PowerCLI as whenever the vApp get's added to a different org from catalog all is gone. This vApp needs to...
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 ArticlevApp; Add custom Guest Properties failes
Hi All,I tried to add some custom Guest Properties to a vApp which is already deployed according to this blog entry:https://communities.vmware.com/thread/442664 My current script looks like this:...
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 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 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...
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