VM clone ESX Shell script help - How to register new clone vm to a resource pool

[greg1995]

Hi,

I have a script that creates a clone of a template VM and registers the new clone to the ESX console, but what is the command line I need in the script to register it to a specific Resource Pool?

NOTE: I am not using the VI3 management console, just one ESX Server version 3.5

Thank you in advance for all your help!

[sbeaver]

You will need to use vimsh

$ help solo/registervm

Usage: registervm vm path

registervm

Register the vm

$

Steve Beaver

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[greg1995]

Thank you for the prompt reply!

I was originally using this to register the VM

NVM="vmname"

NVMDIR="vmname"

vmware-cmd -s register /vmfs/volumes/storage1/$NVMDIR/$NVM.vmx

I am a little confused by what you put. Could you tell me one more time but taking account for the information you see above? Thanks!

[sbeaver]

Try this

Vimsh -n -e "/solo/registervm /vmfs/volumes/storage1/$NVMDIR/$NVM.vmx $NVM $Resourcepool"

Or

vmware-vim-cmd /solo/registervm /vmfs/volumes/storage1/$NVMDIR/$NVM.vmx $NVM $Resourcepool

FYI I have not tried this but what is above should give you a very good starting point

[greg1995]

Thanks again, but that seemed to try to do something, but I keep getting "a "FAILED METHOD CALL" for both ways and says "The request refers to an object that no longer exists or has never existed" and command not found errors.

I found the white paper on this and it also looks a lot like what you suggested, but I get the same thing.

I also tried it with the actual directory and VM name etc and go the same thing.