Questions tagged [powercli]
PowerCLI is the name of a collection of Powershell modules used to manage VMWare environments.
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Is it possible to script within the vsphere web client?
I've been attempting to write a script that will create multiple vm's from a given template. But I haven't found much documentation on scripting within the vSphere web client, has anyone done this ...
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Disconnect NIC on powered off VM
I'm using ESXi 6.0 and PowerCLI. I've created a clone of a production VM:
$Source_VM = Get-VM -Name "MyProductionServer"
$Target_VMHost = Get-VMHost -VM $Source_VM
$Cloned_VM = (New-VM -Name "...
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What are the necessary Privileges to connect via PowerCLI to a VCenter?
First off: Using an Administrator account works, but it is not desired.
We have a VM which needs to be reset once a week. We added a ScheduledTask to the VCenter Instance which runs these three lines:...
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Tokenizing array of strings in powershell
I use this code to retrieve the list of VMs from vSphere.
[string]$arrayVM = (Get-VM | Select-Object -Property Name).Name
Write-Host($arrayVM)
It is fine as I get the following output
N1.windows1 N2....
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How to loop through VMs without a specific tag with powercli
I'm trying to export a CSV file that has a list of all VM's in a cluster that doesn't have a specific tag I'm using for rightsizing. However, the list CSV isn't populating with anything other than ...
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PowerCLI Get VMs those fit some conditions
I'm trying to get our some Linux distros from vCenter by using PowerCLI. But I don't want to get Appliance VMs. So I have 2 different successful PowerCLI scripts those can find these machines. I want ...
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How to install PowerCLI permanently on a computer with no internet
I downloaded the PowerCLI from VMware's website.
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=PCLI650R1&productId=614
Once downloaded their is an executable PowerCLI.exe. If I run ...