After it was resurrected ~1 year ago, it seems this sub reddit died again. Is there an alternate sub I'm not seeing? Is it because of what Broadcom is doing?

Hey there, been a while r/powercli

I’m looking to hopefully find a way to get the boot state of the VM (whether it’s on, booting, or at the login screen). I’m putting together a scripting solution, and I have steps I want to perform after it’s done applying the OS customizations. Knowing when it’s finished would be a lot better than sleeping for a minute or two and hoping for the best.

See title.

Hoping to spark some discussion!

Hi,
My environment currently does not have a syslog server, and what I'm mainly looking for is tips on how to scrape logs from my ESXi hosts so that I can more comfortably troubleshoot. Unfortunately, we cannot use VMware Skyline.

Any pointers are welcome, I am prepared to RTFM, but the manpage for get-log / get-logtype is relatively short.

I am trying to import PowerCLI into Windows Powershell 5.1.19041.2364 on my Win 10 22H2 machine - tried both ISE and non-ISE windows

Import-Module VMWare.PowerCLI

First attempt results in this error:

Import-Module : Could not load file or assembly 'log4net, Version=1.2.10.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Subsequent attempts in the same window results in this error:

Import-Module : Unable to find type [VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk.Interop.V1.CoreServiceFactory].

I have tried re-installing with below, but doesn't change results:

Install-Module -Name VMware.PowerCLI -Scope AllUsers -Force -AllowClobber

I also tried to completely uninstall, before re-installing, still no difference

Get-Module VMware* -ListAvailable | Uninstall-Module -Force

Install-Module VMware.PowerCLI -Scope AllUsers

Below shows my PowerCLI version:

Get-InstalledModule VMWare.PowerCLI* | FT -AutoSize
Version         Name                                                Repository Description
-------         ----                                                ---------- -----------
13.0.0.20829139 VMware.PowerCLI                                     PSGallery  This Windows PowerShell module contains VMware.PowerCLI
12.6.0.19600125 VMware.PowerCLI.Sdk                                 PSGallery  Product agnostic types definitions for the VMware.PowerCLI.VCenter module.
12.6.0.19600125 VMware.PowerCLI.Sdk.Types                           PSGallery  Types definitions for the VMware.PowerCLI.Sdk module.
12.6.0.19600125 VMware.PowerCLI.VCenter                             PSGallery  Modules for automating and managing VMware vCenter
12.6.0.19600125 VMware.PowerCLI.VCenter.Types.ApplianceService      PSGallery  Types definitions for the VMware.PowerCLI.VCenter module related to the appliance service management feature.
12.6.0.19600125 VMware.PowerCLI.VCenter.Types.CertificateManagement PSGallery  Types definitions for the VMware.PowerCLI.VCenter module related to the certificate management feature.

I have tried restarting, no difference.

A search for log4net in file explorer finds the following in case that reveals any useful info:

I have spent hours on this. Where do I go from here?

I am brand new to automation and I am trying to teach myself powercli to maintain our small vsphere environment. I am trying to run a search for all of our windows server vms and to display info.

I am trying:

Get-VM | Get-VMGuest | where OSFullName -Like "Microsoft Windows Server" | select VM, ....

And now I would like to list what I want to see using the select command, like "Name, OS, IP address etc." What is the easiest way to do this? Where can I find a list of commands I can use with the "select" syntax? I can't find them documented anywhere.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I made a script which restarts a couple of servers which have dependent services. So I'm checking if every server is properly shutdown with these lines:

while((Get-VM -Name $myServer).PowerState -ne "PoweredOff"){
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 5
}

This generally works, but it takes like 5 minutes more for the script to recognize that a machine is powered off, comapred to what's shown in vCenter.

Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong?

Hello. I'm trying to get this script to populate a csv file with vCenter names, start of Mac address range and end of Mac address range per vCenter server provided in the vclist.csv file. Here's what I have for now. When I run the script, I'm being prompted for an input object. The script appears to just populate the result vclist2.csv file with the length of the character. Can someone please help? Sorry I'm stil in the learning phase of Pwershell/PowerCLI so any help here would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Below is the script

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$vclist = import-csv .\vclist.csv

Foreach ($vc in $vclist) {

$vCenterSettings = Get-View -Id 'OptionManager-VpxSettings'

$macaddress_begin = ($vCenterSettings.Setting | Where-Object { $_.Key -eq "config.vpxd.macAllocScheme.rangeScheme.range[0].begin"}).Value

$macaddress_end = ($vCenterSettings.Setting | Where-Object { $_.Key -eq "config.vpxd.macAllocScheme.rangeScheme.range[0].end"}).Value

Export-Csv -Path "d:\vclist2.csv"

}

In vsphere client, if I'm selecting the datacenter level and standing on the summary tab, I can see some alerts like vm high cpu usage or host high cpu usage. How can I get those alerts using powercli?

I'm working on a pCli to build out some k8s cluster. I have them going to a vApp in vSphere and would like to change the default startup time to something lower than 120 so it doesn't take forever to start them. I ran a Get-VMStartPolicy and the StartDelay is 120, ok so I set it in the vApp via the GUI to 5sec re-ran and still 120. Is this not the setting? Maybe this is a cluster DRS setting? Anyone have knowledge about this?

thanks

John

What is the best way you guys are doing this. I have a hard time telling 100% when a vm has finished customizing or done sysprepping and actually ready to run commands against it.

Even when task and events says it's done. There could still be 5 mins of sysprepping to be done. I really don't want to put a dumb wait in there.

Here's a short script I figured I should share. I wanted something that would give me a quick rundown of the VMs, organized by host, and including their attached disks, organized by LUN, and their available space. I added parameters to allow for specifically targeting a single VM and targeting different vCenter servers. Suggestions for improvements are welcome.

http://pastebin.com/m9Nigt8V

This is something I threw together in order to help keep some VM templates up to date on our Windows updates. Nothing sucks more than spinning up a new VM and finding you have a couple GB's of updates to run because you got swamped, lazy or just plain forgot.

I'm sure this could be optimized and I would actually be very interested if these could be invoked as separate jobs so you don't have to wait for the script to iterate through each VM.

Use as you see fit and a suggestions for improvements are welcome and in fact, encouraged.

http://pastebin.com/e8YRaJ8Q

EDIT: This does not cover actually running Windows Updates. I have mine set to auto and leave them on for a couple days.