I have made some changes to the script to make life easier. First I used the param statement to read the parameters. Now you can run the script like:
.\MyScript -VIserver vCenter -VMHost esx1 -Amount 3 -Prefix Server_ -datastore Datastore
If you don't specify the parameters on the commandline, there will still be asked for these parameters. If you don't specify the Datastore parameter, you will still get the list of available datastores. But only the datastores available on the specified ESX server.
Further I changed the ping statement in a .NET solution.
Have fun!
param([parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$VIServer,
[parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$VMHost,
[parameter(Mandatory=$true)][int]$Amount,
[parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$Prefix,
[string]$Datastore
)
Connect-VIServer $VIServer
if ($? -match "true")
{
$ping = New-Object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
$Reply = $ping.send($VMHost)
if ($Reply.status –eq “Success”)
{
if (-not $Datastore) {
Write-Host ""
Write-Host "These are the available datastores"
Write-Host "Name`t`tFreeSpaceMB`tCapacityMB"
Write-Host "----`t`t----------`t----------"
Get-VMHost $VMHost | Get-Datastore | `
ForEach-Object {Write-Host "$($_.Name)`t$($_.FreeSpaceMB)`t`t$($_.CapacityMB)"}
Write-Host " "
$Datastore = Read-Host "Please enter the datastore you want to create the VMs on"
}
$ds = Get-VMHost $VMHost | Get-Datastore -name $Datastore
if ($? -match "true")
{
Write-Host " "
Write-Host (8*$Amount)"GB will be used which will leave "($ds.FreeSpaceMB/1024)"GB From the datastore."
$continue = Read-Host "Would you like to continue? (yes/no)"
if ($continue -match "yes")
{
1..$amount | foreach {new-vm -name $Prefix$_ -datastore $ds -vmhost $vmhost -template "New Template" -oscustomizationspec CUSTOM1}
}
else
{
Write-Host "Aborted by user"}
}
}
else {
Write-Host "$vmhost could not be reached"}
}
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