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Update Virtual Hardware using SDK? posted: Oct 26, 2009 6:17 AM

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piuhapofuhpao…
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We're converting from VC 2.5 to vSphere 4.0, and I'm curious to know if it's possible to automate the process of updating the virtual hardware of our Virtual Machines from version 4 to version 7 so that we can start using them in a vSphere environment with all the bells and whistles. To be clear, I'm trying to find out if there is a way to use the Perl API to duplicate the results I would get by right-clicking on a VM in the VC and selecting "Update Virtual Hardware".

Re: Update Virtual Hardware using SDK?

1. Oct 26, 2009 6:44 AM in response to: piuhapofuhpao…
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lamw
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Yep, you'll need to get a reference to an offline VM and then call the method UpgradeVM_Task and specify the version, and in this case it'll be 7

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Re: Update Virtual Hardware using SDK?

2. Oct 26, 2009 7:03 AM in response to: lamw
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Outstanding! I can't believe in all my browsing of the API Docs that I didn't notice this method. Many thanks.

Re: Update Virtual Hardware using SDK?

3. Oct 26, 2009 12:25 PM in response to: piuhapofuhpao…
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lamw
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Here's a Perl script that'll help with the upgrade process: upgradeVMVirtualHardware.pl

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