Organization vDC Edge Gateway
Been trying to figure out how to create a edge gateway in a vDC with powershell and have gotten nowhere, perhaps someone else can give a hand? So i've tried to check an excisting edge gateway to see...
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 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 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 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 Can I Set the Customization Script for all VMs in a vApp
Using the .ExtensionData method found here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/392462?start=0&tstart=0 (Thanks alanrenouf)I'm able to set some guest customization properties via PowerCLI. My...
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 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 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 Articlecivm createmetadata fails with " Tag is not expected in requests for version...
Hi all, I'm following the directions in this (excellent) article: http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2012/03/working-with-vcloud-metadata-in-powercli.htmlwhich is the only documented way I've found...
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 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 ArticleAutomate DRS groups affinity in a vcloud environment
Hi, I'm trying to automate affinity rules for drs groups manger on a vcloud cluster.The idea is to let certain VMs run on assigned esx hosts.We do not create the vm's ourself -> our customers...
View ArticleAdding a vApp Template to Cloud from Catalog in vCD with PowerCLI
I've imported the VM's directly from Virtual Center and created a vApp with Import-CIvApp. I've then shutdown and captured to Catalog with assistance from AtanasAtanasov. So now I have 4 Catalogs each...
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 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?...
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All vCloud VMs in a provider vDC
Trying to get all VMs use a provider. The issue is making the call from the provider to then get all the vApps - it cannot be made this way Does anyone have a clean way of perfroming this action? ( A...
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