How can I get a vCloud VM's NIC type?
I'm trying to write a script that will compare the NIC type in vCloud to the NIC type in vCenter to help workaround a bug in vCloud 1.5. I can get a vCenter VM's NIC type by getting the vCenter VM and...
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 Perhaps I am reading outdated/incorrect documentation?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 ArticleCreate vDC Storage Profile Help
I am kind of new to all of this, but I wanted to put together a simple script that would automate my team's administration of vCD. Specifically org and org vDC creation, etc. I pieced together this...
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 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...
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 ArticleDoes anyone know how to recompose a vcloud vapp from powercli without having...
I’m struggling to find out how to do this. There doesn’t appear to be much out there (or more likely I can’t find it). It seems to me like this would be a common task, so there must be a way to do...
View ArticleWorking with vCloud Metadata in PowerCLI
Based on Jake Robinson's post at GeekAfterFive - Infrastructure as Code, it seems the sample scripts in Alan Renouf's March 30, 2012 post to the VMware PowerCLI Blog, Working with vCloud Metadata in...
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 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 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 ArticleClone a cloud VM into the same vApp?
I would like to clone a VM inside a vApp to create another instance of it in that same vApp. I have tried this with Import-CIVApp: $targetVapp = Get-CIVApp MyVapp$sourceVM = (Get-CIVM -VApp...
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 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 ArticleGet-Civapptemplate vmtoolsversion
hello! Is it possible to obtain the version of installed VMTools in a vCloud vApp template?
View ArticleVcloud powerCLi - VM inventory report
HI all, So i wrote this quick script to generate a report of VMs info and more specifically, who owns them. The issue is that I am getting some rows with nothing but the Owner, and all the other...
View ArticleAnyone building vCD vApps with powershell?
Hi, I'm trying to write a script to import some (previously backed up) VMs from vCenter into vCD, build up a vapp with them and then save it to a catalog. It's a script to replace a lengthy manual...
View Articlenew-ciuser?
hi! just created my first Cloud Organisation with vSphere PowerCLI 5.1 with new-org -name "bla" -fullname "blubb" IfI do this on the Web Frontend, the next page will ask me for an admin user for that...
View Articlemissing PowerCLI cmdlets for external network settings in vCD 5.1?
I have 59 external networks defined in my Provider VDC and over a hundred directly connected OrgVDC networks mapping back to those. I need to update the DNS records for the static IP pools associated...
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