Here is what I did with it after Luc gave me the base code. I needed a way to enable/disable this option for patching time. We noticed it got in the way of windows patching when multiple reboots were required. It will ask you for what cluster and if you want to enable or disable the VMTools options.
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NAME: ChangeVMToolsOptions.ps1
AUTHOR: Jeff Couch
DATE : 8/23/2010
COMMENT: Base Code author LUCD
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Connect to Vcenter
$vCenter = Read-Host "Enter vCenter Server name"
Connect-VIServer $vCenter
Determine Options
Write-Host "Name of Cluster: " -nonewline; $Clustername = Read-Host
Write-Host "Enable or Disable Auto Upgrade VM Tools?"
Write-Host "Answer: " -nonewline; $Option = Read-Host
if ($Option -match "Enable"){$status = "UpgradeAtPowerCycle"}
else {$status = "Manual"}
Write-Host "This will $status all vmtools Auto upgrade on the $Clustername."
Write-Host "Are you sure that you want to Procede? "
Write-Host "[Y] Yes " -nonewline; Write-Host "[N] No " -foregroundcolor yellow -nonewline; $continue = Read-Host "(default is "N")"
if ($continue -match "y")
{
Set SDK Parms
$vmConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
$vmConfigSpec.Tools = New-Object VMware.Vim.ToolsConfigInfo
$vmConfigSpec.Tools.ToolsUpgradePolicy = "$status" #change to "manual" to disable auto upgrade of Tools
Execute Command
get-vm -Location "$Clustername" | get-view | %{$_.ReconfigVM($vmConfigSpec)}
}
else
{
Write-Host "Script Ended Without Execution"
}
Jeff
