immad70
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| 24 Mar 2008 11:35 PM |
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Hello Gurus,
I am trying to run some vmware scripts within a powershell script. For example something like this;
script name is check_powerstate.ps1
$vcbhome="c:\program files\vmware\vmware consolidated backup framework"
$vcbhome\vcbvmname -s powerstate:on
I can't figure out how to run this vmware related executable file within the powershell script. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Andrew
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halr9000
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| 24 Mar 2008 11:43 PM |
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Andrew,
Two things:
1) It would be easier to help you out if you gave error messages or more information on what is going wrong when you try to run the below. If I had to guess, I would think maybe you are trying to run a vbscript within powershell. But that's beside the point because:
2) You need to go here: http://vmware.com/go/powershell and download the toolkit which just came out the other day. Then when you need help specific to that, go to the forums dedicated to it which are here: http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/windows_toolkit?view=discussions
Of course we're happy to help you here with more general Powershell stuff. |
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immad70
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| 25 Mar 2008 12:50 AM |
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Thank you very much for the quick reply. I will make sure to check out this site and download 1st thing in the morning. |
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bsonposh
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| 25 Mar 2008 01:04 PM |
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while I WHOLE heartly agree with Hal. Download the VMWare VIToolkit.
You can try this. Assuming that vcbvmname.exe is a program.
$vcbhome="c:\program files\vmware\vmware consolidated backup framework"
invoke-expression "$vcbhome\vcbvmname.exe -s powerstate:on" |
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immad70
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| 25 Mar 2008 01:53 PM |
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Hello Bsonposh,
The vcbvmname is a program that does work when invoked within the shell. However, when invoked w/in the script it does not give any response back.
I do plan on installing the VMWare VIToolkit first opportunity.
The invoke-expression didn't work either. I tried the following & it didn't work as well;
& "c:\program files\vmware\vmware consolidated backup\framework\vcbvmname.exe" |
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bsonposh
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| 25 Mar 2008 02:44 PM |
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That is curious. I thought perhaps the powerstate:on was the problem, but if it doesnt launch at all.
with the VI Toolkit you can do this
get-vm | ?{$_.PowerState -match "On"} |
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immad70
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| 25 Mar 2008 06:14 PM |
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Thank you bsonposh,
Any idea on how to shut down a host with the VI Toolkit? I can get it to go into maintenance mode, but not so sure how to shut down the host. |
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bsonposh
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| 25 Mar 2008 07:47 PM |
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I will defer to our resident expert Hal on this.
If he doesnt know a way to use VI toolkit you can use my script here http://www.powershellcentral.com/scripts/66
You can send halt or reboot.
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bsonposh
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| 25 Mar 2008 07:51 PM |
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I assume you are the same person, but this would be for general consumption
From VMWare Community forums
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$myHost = get-vmhost
$myHostView = get-view $myHost.ID
$myHostView.RebootHost_Task($true)
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/134860?tstart=0 |
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immad70
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| 26 Mar 2008 03:58 PM |
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I wanted to thank everyone for your help with this. You all were extremely helpful.
Thanks,
Andrew |
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halr9000
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| 26 Mar 2008 04:41 PM |
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Yeah, I assumed he was the same person, too so I didn't post here. But you you know what they say about assuming... Thanks for posting that, BS.
Andrew, be sure to learn the Get-Member cmdlet. You can examine objects with it to see what methods and properties they have. You'll see that the object returned by Get-View has a TON of stuff in there. Just be careful with it in case this is your production environment. ;) |
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bsonposh
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| 26 Mar 2008 05:27 PM |
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Perhaps an example
$halPost | gm -MemberType Method
TypeName: System.hal.Post
Name MemberType Definition
---- ---------- ----------
SpellCheck Method System.hal.Post.CheckText()
$halPost.SpellCheck("Get-Veiw")
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halr9000
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| 26 Mar 2008 06:07 PM |
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No clue what you are talking about. :) |
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bsonposh
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| 26 Mar 2008 09:54 PM |
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That explains alot :P |
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