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...
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 Articleget-civm command piped to get-civapp | owner
Basically I've been researching to see how I might pull some reporting data from VCD. I ran across several sites that provide exactly what I am needing, but the problem is they all use the get-civm...
View ArticleConnect-CIServer to VCD as sysadmin ?
Hello,I do have issues when connecting to VCD using a user as sysadmin role. It works when I log to an org with using user with Org_adminConnect-CIServer -Server 'xxx' -User 'user_org_Admin' -Password...
View ArticleHow can i add a nic to a vapp deployed by vcd1.5
Hi any advise how i can add a nic to a vapp using power cli i'm have powercli 4.1 with vcentre 4.1 U1
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 ArticleVdcStorageProfiles missing in Orgvdc object (version5.1)
Hi,I'm trying to create organisation VDC's in vCloud 5.1.New to version 5.1 is the use of storage profiles in the provider VDC.I cannot create an Org VDC with storage profiles since this property does...
View ArticleAny way to eject all media?
Hi, I am trying to eject the media of all vm's in an org but I am having trouble. Is there an easy way to do this? As an example with just one vm. PowerCLI C:\Program Files...
View ArticleNeed to increase Command Timeout from default of 100 seconds
I have a large network with about 1500 IPs assigned to it that is timing out when trying to retrieve it. I need to increase the timeout, How can I do that? This is running against VCD 5.1 PowerCLI...
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 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-Civapptemplate vmtoolsversion
hello! Is it possible to obtain the version of installed VMTools in a vCloud vApp template?
View ArticlevApp Guest Customization
Hi I am trying to uncheck the 'guest customization' box for each of my Virtual Machines within the vApp I have created. Is there a PowerCLI command I can run to do this instead of manually going into...
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 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 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 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 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...
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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...
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