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Guest Provisioning System (cloning from templates)

VERSION 3 Published

Created on: Aug 30, 2008 5:30 PM by LucD - Last Modified: May 22, 2009 11:50 AM by LucD

Define and create VI guests based on templates. The application allows an authorized user to define and create one or more guests in a VI environment. By default the application presents the user a Windows Forms based dialog. To allow for scheduling the creation of the guests the application can be run in CMD-mode. In other words no Windows Forms are used. For further info see the Word doc in the ZIP file.

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Tags: powershell, guest, template, clone, contest

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Aug 30, 2008 6:23 PM LucD says:

Please note that this is an early beta of v2 of this application.
Use it only in your test environments for now!

Comments, bug reports, suggestions are more than welcome.

Aug 30, 2008 6:28 PM halr9000 says:

Very nice! Comments:

datastore field should check for valid values by vmhost
the disk size dialog will accept a null size
the network dialog only sees one of my networks

Aug 30, 2008 11:14 PM esloof says: in response to: LucD

Mmmmm I hope your in time because the contest ends At August 30, 2008, 11:59pm PST

and not

Created on:31-aug-2008 2:30 by LucD - Last Modified: 31-aug-2008 3:17 by LucD

Aug 30, 2008 11:31 PM esloof says: in response to: esloof

Sorry, I just checked PST, and over there it's still Saturday.

Aug 30, 2008 11:59 PM LucD says: in response to: esloof

Yep, there is a 9 hours difference between CET and PST.
The community SW marks the local time of the user.

Aug 31, 2008 12:12 AM esloof says: in response to: LucD

Yes, my mistake, sorry about that. Nice script by the way. I was wondering when to expect one of your great contributions.

Aug 31, 2008 1:06 AM LucD says: in response to: halr9000

1) I our setup we map all VMFS datastores to all VMHosts.
But it is a valid remark.
I will add that functionality.

2) I will add a validation function to fix the zero disk size shortly.

3) The list of available Virtual Machine Port Groups is based on a script that I entered in the VI Toolkit community.
See http://communities.vmware.com/message/1029208#1029208.
Does that return all the VM Port Groups correctly ?

Aug 31, 2008 1:22 AM LucD says:

I received some questions about the development tools I used.

To avoid replying the same to each PM:

the Windows Forms part is done with the ScriptForm Designer in Admin Script Editor (see http://www.adminscripteditor.com)
script editing and debugging is done with PowerShellPlus (see http://powershell.com)

Aug 31, 2008 2:25 AM alanrenouf says: in response to: LucD

Just when we thought we had got away with it !

Aug 31, 2008 10:33 AM esloof says: in response to: LucD

Last week I posted an article about the Admin Scipt Editor on ntpro.nl, this tool also can create an exe from a PowerShell script.

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/597-The-iTripoli-Admin-Script-Editor-Rocks.html

Aug 31, 2008 10:48 AM halr9000 says: in response to: esloof

We interviewed Steven Behrns from iTripoli on Episode 24.

http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/powerscripting-podcast-episode-24-admin-script-editor/

Author of the upcoming book: Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell
Co-Host, PowerScripting Podcast (http://powerscripting.net)