Clone a VM and Chnage it's Network Settings?

[Rhidian]

I'm looking to clone a VM multiple times changing the network connection and IP address it uses,  any help appreciated.

[rajeshcloud]

You can clone multiple times, but you should change ip address for each machine.

[Rhidian]

I'm looking to do somthing like this;

Connect-vCenter

     Connect-Cluster

     Get-AllAvailableNetworks

     For AllTheAvailableNetworks

          Clone-VM(Update Network Addapter(AllTheAvailableNetworks), ChangeIP)

     END

[Shakaal]

Hi,

Make a template out of the VM and use guest customization, also check if during cloning it gives option for guest customization if it does then no need to go for template just use guest customization follow below Kb artilce for guest customization:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006842

Regards

[varonis]

Hi,

You can clone and than remove the the network card, recreate network card (if you have a DHCP server) you will get a new ip.

Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation* -erroraction SilentlyContinue
Connect-VIServer -Server vc

$VM = Get-Vm "networktest"

foreach ($VM in $VMs)
    {
     $VM | Get-NetworkAdapter | remove-NetworkAdapter -Confirm:$false
    New-NetworkAdapter -VM $VM -NetworkName "VM Network" -StartConnected -Confirm:$false
    }

[tigerdeccan]

If you are cloning and recreating it should already have new IP and DNS name ,

[varonis]

not true... if you clone it cloning everything!

if you deploy from a template it will get a new ip and dns...

[tigerdeccan]

sorry I have had wrong conception...

yeah u r right ..

I thought you guys r cloning to template ...

[tigerdeccan]

If you rather prefer to clone it to template and deploy VMs , then Vspherw will do the job .

You will need to include a sysprep script in c:\windows\setup .. 

[varonis · Accepted solution]

NP, other solution will be running this script :

$vmlist = Import-CSV C:vms.csv

foreach ($item in $vmlist) {

  # I like to map out my variables

  $vmname = $item.vmname

  $ipaddr = $item.ipaddress

  $subnet = $item.subnet

  $gateway = $item.gateway

  $pdnswins = $item.pdnswins

  $sdnswins = $item.sdnswins

  #Get the current interface info

  $GuestInterface = Get-VMGuestNetworkInterface -VM $vmname -HostCredential $HostCred -GuestCredential $GuestCred

  #If the IP in the VM matches, then I don't need to update

  If ($ipaddr -ne $($GuestInterface.ip)) {

      Set-VMGuestNetworkInterface  -VMGuestNetworkInterface $GuestInterface -HostCredential $HostCred -GuestCredential $GuestCred -IP $ipaddr -Netmask $subnet -Gateway $gateway -DNS $pdnswins,$sdnswins -WINS $pdnswins,$sdnswins

  }

}

[tigerdeccan]

will this change the DNS name and IP address . if yes , then you might also consider any traffic hitting the parent VM and also address the issues involving in duplicate machines for few seconds/minutes untill this script execute