Very nice, you should definately enter the comp.

Alan Renouf
VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant
UK

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Lance works for VMware, no $5000 for him, for us 3rd prize is we're fired

Looks great!

Lance, do you know Aiden Dalgleish? He's a PSO Consultant from the UK and already created a hell of a lot scripts for installing. Talk to him, he's got some cool stuff!

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Updated and named to be different than the other here.

• recent - I have a newer version that takes hosts from a CSV file. This eliminates the need to create a hostname.ps1 for each server. when you get over 90 servers those files are unmanageable, and any changes made to the template means a rebuild of them.... So I now use a CSV.

I'm thinking of rearchitecting it again... if there's any interest i'll look at posting it. I have to de customize if for the job i'm doing here to post it which is some extra work....

Unpublished updates.

• fixed NTP auto start and DNS Search Suffix- Thanks LucD

• added blat email option to email log or report

• added csv function for hosts to replace having individual host-template.ps1 files for each host.

• fixed a few minor issues

Has anyone succeeded in configuring the license server and edition on an ESX server using Powershell?

I am about to embark on using the Java sample in the SDK to try to do it. I have also looked at the C++ code posted in the community.

Thanks

Update2: Sep 23. This is extracted from code that I believe is working properly, even though are likely more efficient ways. Some of these are used for other aspects of my provisioning script so there may be more than you need. Note in particular the use of the $ESXHostView.MoRef. -- Start of rant -- It cost an hour of head scratching and random guesses and finally get-member to find that. Sure would be nice to have some documentation of the VMware.VIM .Net Classes. (Hint. Hint.) Note that cmdlet help and that SDK website don't count for newbie PS/VIM people who need to access the .Net libraries. The .Net libraries help is a good start with its 5 classes. I think we need to see the same thing for all the "real" classes too. Of course, maybe it's all there, and I haven't been able to find it. If so, please accept my apologies. -- End of rant --

$LicenseServer="27000@myVCS.myDomain.local"
$HostPassword=Read-Host "Enter the password to the root account on the ESX Host" -asSecureString
$ESXConnect=Connect-VIServer -Server $HostIP -User $HostUser `
-Password ([System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto( `
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($HostPassword))) `
-ErrorAction Inquire
$ESXHost=Get-VMHost -Name $HostFQDN
$ESXHostView=$ESXHost | Get-View
$ServiceInstance=Get-View -Server $ESXConnect ServiceInstance
$LicManRef=$ServiceInstance.Content.LicenseManager
$LicManView=Get-View -Server $ESXConnect $LicManRef
$LicServerSource=New-Object VMWARE.VIM.LicenseServerSource
$LicServerSource.LicenseServer=$LicenseServer
$LicManView.SetLicenseEdition($ESXHostView.MoRef,"esxFull")
$LicManView.ConfigureLicenseSource($ESXHostView.MoRef,$LicServerSource)