I have a vm that is powered on and in a cluster and I need to migrade it. it currently has a cdrom installed but I can't edit it(cdrom is greyed out) Is there a way to remove these devices from the vm in VC with a command line so I can migrate it? (really it is just the cdrom that is holding it up. Ohh and the kicker is I can't reboot the vm,..
Hi,
I have no 3.0 version of ESX running down here anymore, but you can try to do this using vimsh as follows:
Connect to the Console on your ESX host and enter as root:
vimsh
Now get the ID of your VM in question using (scroll using shift page up / page down if you have to)
vmsvc/getallvms
write down the VM ID for example it can be a number like 4400
Find the key for your VirtualCDrom by querying the hardware devices for your VM.
vmsvc/device.getdevices 4400
scroll up again and write down the Key, in my case it is 3000
Now disconnect the CDrom device by running:
vmsvc/device.connection 4400 3000 false
Use true if you want to connect the device.
Just tested this on VMware ESX3.5 and it worked fine there.
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Hi, as far as I know, no. Its down to the type of device - IDE device being presented to the vm. Try changing the cd-rom to point to an iso thats available to both ESX boxes
Thanks,
Neil
Hi,
I have no 3.0 version of ESX running down here anymore, but you can try to do this using vimsh as follows:
Connect to the Console on your ESX host and enter as root:
vimsh
Now get the ID of your VM in question using (scroll using shift page up / page down if you have to)
vmsvc/getallvms
write down the VM ID for example it can be a number like 4400
Find the key for your VirtualCDrom by querying the hardware devices for your VM.
vmsvc/device.getdevices 4400
scroll up again and write down the Key, in my case it is 3000
Now disconnect the CDrom device by running:
vmsvc/device.connection 4400 3000 false
Use true if you want to connect the device.
Just tested this on VMware ESX3.5 and it worked fine there.
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Wil
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Oh I forgot use "quit" if you want to stop vimsh or go to
http://www.vi-toolkit.com/wiki/index.php/Vimsh
for more info on vimsh.
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Wil
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As Wila has stated you can use the "vimsh", on ESX 3.0.x+ you'll need to use the following syntax:
vimsh -n -e "command ..."
For ESX 3.5+ use the following:
vmware-vim-cmd "command ..."
For ESXi 3.5+ use the following"
vim-cmd "command ..."
Hey thanks for that... I added the vim-cmd bit to the vimsh landing page on vi-toolkit.com
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